In this issue, you’ll learn more about how Steury
and his team count bears, track their activities, and can pinpoint where they are — namely, Saraland, near Mobile,and Mentone, in Dekalb County.
You’ll also learn that we don’t count Georgia bears
as belonging to our state. Georgia’s male bears are bad to wander across the border in search of Alabama’s female bears. Then they go home again.
Georgia’s wandering bears have nothing on AU
alumnus Bob Henson and his wife, Phyllis, who have accomplished the rare feat of having visited every country on the planet, some safer than others.
And safety—specifically, nuclear safety—is our cover story this issue as we talk to AU’s Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Oakberg, whose team at the International Atomic Energy Agency has been responsible for keeping nuclear weapons proliferation in check.
Enjoy the issue—and watch out for those bears
wandering over from Georgia. They’re up to no good.
