Tag: Desktop News October 2013


Turning Missed Opportunities into Success

From the October 2013 Desktop News | Dr. Winifred Bragg, author of the upcoming book Anatomy of Success and a UA alumna, will present a lecture, “How to Turn Missed Opportunity into Success,” on October 24 as part of “Through the Doors,” a yearlong series of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of UA. The lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Room 205 of Smith Hall and is free and open to the public. During her lecture, Bragg will […]

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Professor’s Behavior Intervention Techniques Yield Positive Results

Salekin Uses Technology, Science to Treat Troubled Youth From the October 2013 Desktop News | Troubled youth in the custody of the Alabama Department of Youth Services have been given a second chance at success thanks to the work of Dr. Randy Salekin, a professor in the Department of Psychology, and his team of graduate students. Salekin’s mix of technology, science education, and positive psychology is impacting the behavior of more than 70 boys with serious behavioral or criminal issues. Salekin and […]

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College Alumna’s Artwork Displayed

From the October 2013 Desktop News | Woods Quad on the UA campus now boasts a fifth large-scale outdoor sculpture courtesy of artist Lindsay Jones Lindsey, a 2012 graduate of the Department of Art and Art History. The piece is a six-and-a-half foot sculpture depicting a Fibonacci spiral with an exposed stainless steel skeleton and is part of the Woods Quad Sculpture Garden. Lindsey, who triple minored in biological sciences, Computer-Based Honors and the Blount Undergraduate Initiative while at UA, began designing […]

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Cybersecurity Expert to Deliver Mills Lecture

UA Alumnus Gary Fowlie Discusses Global Internet Trends From the October 2013 Desktop News | Gary Fowlie, a UA alumnus and head of the liaison office of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to the United Nations, will lecture on “Cybersecurity or Cyberthreat? – Balancing Human Rights and Economic Growth in Our Virtual World” Oct 24 at 11 a.m. in room 120 of Farrah Hall on the UA campus.  Fowlie’s talk is sponsored by the Helen Crow Mills and John Carroll Mills Endowed […]

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UA Presents “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

Students will play key roles in the performance From the October 2013 Desktop News | In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a jail cell in Birmingham, writing a letter that would become one of the most famous documents of the civil rights movement. Fifty years later, opera theatre students from the College of Arts and Sciences’ School of Music, in partnership with Red Mountain Theatre Company of Birmingham (RMTC), will bring his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to life. […]

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