Alabama A&M University

Alabama A&M University and the U.S. Forest Service will welcome more than 200 students from local summer camps to campus June 17 for the 11th Annual Forestry Fair, a free educational event designed to introduce young people to forestry, conservation and careers in natural resources. The Forestry Fair will take place from 10 a.m. to noon on The Quad and is open to the public.

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North Huntsville residents now have a new front door to health care. Alabama A&M leaders joined Huntsville Hospital officials Tuesday to celebrate the opening of Physician Care North Huntsville, the first primary care facility in North Huntsville. The new clinic located at the AAMU Plaza at 4701 Meridian St. will provide primary care services to patients ages 18 and older. The 3,200-square-foot facility includes five exam rooms and one procedure room and will offer annual physicals, preventive screenings, immunizations, chronic disease management, employment and sports physicals, and sick visits.

More: https://www.aamu.edu/about/inside-aamu/news/new-faciltiy-expands-access-to-health-care-though-aamu-huntsville-hospital-partnership.html

Alabama A&M University students gained firsthand experience in adapted sports this spring when two-time U.S. Paralympian Willard Brooks Jr. returned to his alma mater to introduce wheelchair basketball to students in the PED 427 Adapted Physical Education class. Brooks was joined by Dr. David Kyle, professor and director of the Ability Sport Network at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

The recent session gave students an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of wheelchair basketball while exploring the importance of accessibility, inclusion and adaptive physical education in sports and recreation. All students in the course participated in the wheelchair basketball activities using sports wheelchairs provided by the Ability Sport Network.

More: https://www.aamu.edu/about/inside-aamu/news/willard-brooks-and-uahs-dr-david-kyle-lead-immersive-adapted-sports-experience.html

AAMU Dual Enrollment gives high school students the opportunity to earn college credit, experience university coursework, and get a head start on their future. Learn more and apply at: https://www.aamu.edu/dualenrollment

A pivotal chapter in the history of Alabama A&M University and higher education in Alabama was recently commemorated when the federal courthouse in Rome, Georgia, was officially renamed the Harold L. Murphy Federal Building and United States Courthouse in honor of the late U.S. District Judge Harold L. Murphy.

Hosted by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the Rome Bar Association and the Atlanta Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the ceremony celebrated Murphy's distinguished judicial career and his central role in overseeing Knight v. Alabama, one of the nation's most significant higher education desegregation cases.

More: https://www.aamu.edu/about/inside-aamu/news/landmark-desegregation-case-transformed-higher-education-and-expanded-opportunities-for-generations-of-students.html