Opposing view: Loopholes aid Big Tobacco
USA Today – Sept. 12
… Dr. Alan Blum is director of the University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco…

University of Alabama prof to discuss slavery
Daily Press (Newport, Va.) – Sept. 12
University of Alabama law professor will discuss the College of William and Mary's connections to slavery - and the controversy over political apologies for slavery - this month at the Williamsburg campus. Alfred Brophy has researched race and property law from Colonial times through the 1900s. He will speak Sept. 20 at William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law. The event begins at 3:30 p.m…

Sir Ken Robinson speaks tonight at Moody Concert Hall
Crimson White – Sept. 12
…Creative Campus will present cultural arts lecturer Sir Ken Robinson tonight at 6 in the Moody Music Building Concert Hall. According to the Creative Campus Web site, Robinson is an internationally-recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources…

Plank Center offers scholarships, grants
Crimson White – Sept. 12
…The Plank Center for Leadership in public relations, housed in the College of Communication and Information Sciences, helps students in public relations gain experience in the field by working to promote leadership in practice outside the classroom…Recently, the Plank Center awarded more than $17,000 in research grants to Brooke Fisher Liu of DePaul University and Suzanne Horsley of the University of Utah for their study "Public Relations Leaders in the Public and Private Sector: Peas in a Pod or Polar Opposites."…

Programs receive thousands in grant funds
Florence Times-Daily – Sept. 12
…Marian Loftin, director of the Children's Trust Fund of Alabama, said Alabama is ranked 48th in the nation in child well-being. Also, child abuse and neglect costs the state more than $520 million a year, according to a study by the University of Alabama’s College of Human Environmental Sciences and the Center for Business and Economic Research,,,

Health Services kicks off Cancer Prevention Week
Crimson White – Sept. 12
The College of Community Health Services kicked off its Cancer Prevention Week Monday with a lecture from Dr. Charles LeMaistre, a member of the 1964 surgeon general's advisory committee on smoking and health…

Pinwheels for Peace kicks off Tuesday
Crimson White – Sept. 12
…According to the Pinwheels for Peace Web site, students around the world will participate by making pinwheels - meant to symbolize childhood simplicity, joy and peace - to display in front of their schools, museums and other public places. The pinwheels will create a visual statement about students' feelings about peace, tolerance, cooperation and harmony…

Paul “Bear” Bryant’s Birthday
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) -- Sept. 11
Students at Bryant High School celebrated Paul W. “Bear” Bryant’s Birthday.

Some UA Fans Get FSU Tickets
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) -- Sept. 11
Some UA fans received their FSU tickets in the mail this week.