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With increased social media use comes increased anxiety

Megan Miller July 2, 2013

As social media use continues to increase for teenagers and young adults, users have begun to experience side effects, such as depression or anxiety, and researchers have taken notice. Nicole Muscanell,...

Benjamin Moore hosts competition to revitalize cities

Grace Hagemann June 25, 2013

Tuscaloosa is in the running to be chosen as one of Benjamin Moore’s Main Street Matters communities. This is Benjamin Moore’s largest campaign to date that focuses on revitalizing communities across...

Students get creative to find convenient parking

Alexandra Ellsworth June 11, 2013

Jen Patterson scribbled a short note on a piece of paper, stuck it on her windshield and hurried to her TCF 112 class. The note read, “Having a bad day. Please be kind, oh gracious UA employee!”...

Fashion photojournalists connect with Instagram

Fashion photojournalists connect with Instagram

Becky Robinson June 11, 2013

Instagram users are finding a new way to use the photo app for more than taking pictures of their dinner. The social media site that uses photo streams for users to connect is becoming an increasingly...

WIndows 8 competes with Mac OS in looks, accessibility

Ryan Phillips April 23, 2013

Like a vast number of other tech-minded students, I am a voluntary slave to Apple. Through college, I have been a devoted disciple to the gospel of Steve Jobs while turning my nose up at the site of a...

Local entrepreneur speaks to Capstone business students

Ryan Phillips April 21, 2013

Local entrepreneur Charles Morgan discussed effective business with students and faculty at a luncheon in the Ferguson Center last week. “At the end of the day it won’t be how much money you made...

Fly me to the moon: UA junior’s work with NASA lands her co-op in Houston, Texas

Anna Waters April 17, 2013

For University of Alabama junior Liz Bowman, a job working for NASA in Houston, Texas is only one small step in her journey to make the giant leap to the final frontier. After landing an internship at...

Podcast starts conversation about local arts

Courtney Stinson April 10, 2013

UA graduate Bob Baker and senior Tyler Marshall began their podcast, Trivial Pursuits, as a way to have fun with their friends, but as the podcast has evolved into what Baker describes as “a more legitimate...

UA fly fishing gets philanthropic with nonprofit Fishing’s Future

Angeleah Coker April 10, 2013

The last paved road ended 30 miles ago. A birdsong, water trickling and the wisp of a line being cast are the only sounds the fly fishing club can hear this deep in the woods. Adam Hudson, a senior...

MFA students fund writing programs online

Courtney Stinson April 9, 2013

Southern Fried Scribes, an eight-week creative writing program funded through Kickstarter, will offer free writing and literacy workshops to high school students in the Black Belt region. The founders...

Students should strive to ‘get their money’s worth’ while at the University

Courtney Stinson April 7, 2013

This semester I finally started a project that I had wanted to start for more than a year, my own YouTube channel. But with no equipment, no editing software and no production knowledge whatsoever, I had...

UAB offers students social media graduate certificate

Courtney Stinson April 1, 2013

While Facebooking and tweeting in class are still taboo, The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s new graduate certificate program in social networking will begin teaching students to use social media...