Education Briefs
Birmingham News – March 4
On Thursday, Hank Klibanoff, a managing editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and co-author of "The Race Beat," will be presented the 2008 Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences… --Gregory Thompson, assistant professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at the University of Alabama, has been selected as a 2008 Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Young Leaders International Scholar…

Party-switchers usually don’t face backlash
Sand Mountain Reporter – March 4
…William Stewart, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alabama, said that logic is “rather weak. “If you’ve been a Democrat during your adult life, you know it’s a liberal party. … I think it sounds sort of lame when you say, ‘I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me,’ in 2008,” he said…

Wythe's sensational murder the subject of lecture
Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) – March 4
…Wythe Holt, who is research professor emeritus of the University Of Alabama School Of Law, will explore the 1806 death by poisoning of his famous ancestor, George Wythe, who led the Virginia delegation that played such an important role in framing the Declaration of Independence…