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End of Till case draws mixed response
USA Today.com – March 3 (AP National Wire to more than 125 news outlets nationwide)
David Beito, a University of Alabama history professor who has done extensive research on the Till case, says Beauchamp raised "a lot of false expectations

New spotlight thrown on Bama and discovery of earliest writing
Huntsville Times – March 5
University of Alabama anthropology professor Dr. Richard "Dick" Diehl has spent more than four decades digging in Mexican fields looking for artifacts ...

Time springs forward early in hopes of saving power
Birmingham News – March 5
“About 25 percent of electric demand is for lights," said Bob Taylor, a professor at the University of Alabama. He is an associate director of the Alabama ...

McGinnis relying on career in oil, need for refining capacity to make Tacna project reality
Yuma Sun, AZ – March 5
Dr. Peter Clark, a professor at the University of Alabama and oil and gas expert, said the United States is 25 years late in building refineries and should ...

Hot about gas prices? Why rising temperatures mean you're paying more
Monitor, TX – March 5
... caused the at-the-pump price increases, said Peter Clark, an associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Alabama. ...

Obama, Clinton mark civil-rights fight in Selma
Tuscaloosa News -- March 5
Ashley Clayton, a 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Alabama, said she was pleased at the diversity of Obama’s supporters. ...

Pre-K initiative set to grow
Tuscaloosa News – March 5
. . .pre-K effort is supported by collaborations with the University of Alabama and Stillman College, which will provide music and art instruction, ...

Meeting of the Minds
Tuscaloosa News – March 5
University of Alabama political science professor William Stewart said Riley remains formidable even though he faces a Democratic-led Legislature. ...

Cobb wants to see change and prove justice is not for sale
Tuscaloosa News – March 5
David Lanoue, chairman of the political science department at the University of Alabama, says he’d be surprised if legislators or voters approved the ...

Who's in the Alabama Legislature?
Birmingham News – March 4
"Now we have a Legislature more reflective of Alabama racially," said William Stewart, a political scientist at the University of Alabama. ...

Tamping down tobacco
Bill would toughen industry oversight, restrict ads targeting children
MarketWatch – March 4
'The FDA approves cures, not poisons.' Dr. Alan Blum, director of the University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco & Society, said at...

Bipartisanship may not last long
Montgomery Advertiser – March 4
Nonetheless, the regular session probably will be "very contentious," said William Stewart, a political scientist who retired from the University of Alabama ...

Lunar eclipse to lend our sky an orange grin tonight
Birmingham News – March 3
The University of Alabama will host a public viewing at its Tuscaloosa observatory from 6 to 8 p.m. Astronomy professor Bill Keel will lead the gathering.

Blum opposes FDA regulating tobacco
Tuscaloosa News -- March 3
Blum, the Gerald Leon Wallace Chair in Family Medicine at the University of Alabama and the director of its nine-year-old Center for Study of Tobacco and ...

“CSI Alabama” reveals not-so-sexy side of science
WIAT-TV (Birmingham) – March 3
. . .and they have to do their part,’ Jacobi, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama. ‘Nothing gets done in. . .