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Call for Papers! Vulcan Historical Review
Members of the editorial board of the Vulcan Historical Review (VHR) 19th edition invite you to submit papers to be considered for publication.
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Watch Martez Files Deliver the Fall 2014 Commencement Speech
Martez Files, the undergraduate speaker for the Fall 2014 UAB College of Arts and Sciences commencement ceremony, graduated with a BA in History and a BA in African American Studies.
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Watch Memoir Short Films Created by Students
Over the Fall 2014 semester, students wrote memoirs and then filmed their stories for the interdisciplinary class “Memoir in Writing and Film,” taught by Kerry Madden of English and Michele Forman of the History Department.
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UAB Research Probes Temperature-dependent Sex Determination in Turtles
UAB biology professor Thane Wibbels' turtles are a model to try to answer a key question: How does temperature determine whether a turtle embryo turns into a male or a female?
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UAB Music Announces New Guest Artists, Performances for 2015
A new schedule of performances and recitals, most free, has been announced for 2015 by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music.
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Historian at Work
Last fall, the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center (BHEC) hired UAB History Department alumna Rebecca Dobrinski (MA ’11, BA ’08) as its first Program Director.
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The DFLL Welcomes Yumi Takamiya, Assistant Professor in Japanese
Her research interests include pragmatics, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and teacher development.
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Mathematica Software Available for Free to UAB Faculty, Staff, Students
Mathematica is available for free to UAB faculty, staff and students, thanks to funding from the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering.
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News Update 2014
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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International Scholars from Turkey Visit UAB Social Work
Students from Hacettepe Üniversitesi in Ankara, Turkey recently visited UAB for 30 days to research the Social Work culture in the United States.
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UAB Physicist Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Laser physicist Sergey Mirov, Ph.D., left Russia 22 years ago, after training in Moscow under the 1964 Nobel laureate Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov and working at the USSR Academy of Sciences.
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Magda Szaflarski Named Engaged Scholar
Sociology Professor Magda Szaflarski has been selected as one of three new fellows in the Studying Congregations Engaged Scholars Fellowship program sponsored by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research with funding from the Lilly Endowment, Inc.
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Catledge Proposal Selected for 2015 Alabama Launchpad Start-up Competition
One of the teams selected to compete in the 2015 Alabama Launchpad Startup Competition includes UAB researchers (Dr. Aaron Catledge and Jamin Johnston) in the Department of Physics who have teamed up with Pete Winslett, owner of local company ‘Bama Mine & Milling’.
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The Male Scent Stresses Out Lab Rodents, Study Says
University of Alabama at Birmingham psychology professor Robert Sorge, Ph.D., recently published findings in Nature Methodsthat indicate the smell of male researchers causes a stress response that suppresses pain in mice and rats, while women have no effect on the test subjects.
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DOD Grant to Fund UAB Rehabilitation Therapy for Wounded Warriors
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is launching a research project that will provide therapy to wounded veterans and active-duty personnel at no cost through a $2.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense.
History/African American Studies Major to Give Commencement Speech
Martez Files, the undergraduate speaker for the Fall 2014 morning commencement ceremony, is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and a Bachelor of Arts degree in African American Studies.
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Flow of Ideas
Can graphic design save a river—and a region? Doug Barrett, M.F.A., UAB assistant professor of graphic design in the Department of Art and Art History, and his students have laid out a plan to do just that, creating logos, brochures, signage, and more to draw attention to the Cahaba River and surrounding communities.
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Journey to the Edge: Antarctic Exploration
Jim McClintock loves his job so much that he just can’t stay away from the office. Which is pretty impressive when you consider that one of his workspaces sits 6,898 miles away from Birmingham, at Palmer Station in Antarctica.
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Physics Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients for 2015
The 2015 Physics Scholarship and Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the following Physics undergraduates have been selected for undergraduate scholarships for Spring 2015.
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Witness to History
Clarence Lockett started out as a theatre student focusing on screenwriting. But it was a true-life story that pulled him into filmmaking and changed his college and career goals.
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Proteins in Space
It was a small step for man, but a giant leap for protein science when UAB researcher Larry DeLucas, O.D., Ph.D., shot into orbit aboard the space shuttle Columbia on June 25, 1992. DeLucas—the first optometrist in space—conducted experiments on protein crystal growth that were an important step in the drug discovery process for treating AIDS and other devastating diseases.
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Justice Sciences’ Faculty Member Named Among Most Cited Criminologists
In a study published in the most recent issue of Sociometrics, Dr. J. Heith Copes of the Department of Justice Sciences was identified as one of the “Top 100” most prolific and most cited criminologists in the world over the period 2009-2013.
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Lessons from an Internship: Independence, Self-Confidence, and Patience
History student and REV Birmingham intern Stephanie Qualls has become a regular face amongst the cobblestone streets and old buildings of downtown.
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CJ Honors Student Completes Sterne Library Certificate Program
The Department of Justice Sciences is pleased to announce that Santorra King, a senior undergraduate Criminal Justice honors student, has completed Mervyn H. Sterne Library’s Social Science Research Toolkit Certificate Program.
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Read the New Issue of Memorandum
Want to hear about the latest from the Professional Writing Program? The new issue of Memorandum, written and designed by students in the program, is available now.
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Message from the Dean of the UAB College of Arts and Sciences
After yesterday's announcement of decisions affecting UAB Athletics, I wanted to speak to you about our next steps and the future course of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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New UAB Clinical Research Program to Combat Chronic Pain and Fatigue
Chronic pain and fatigue syndromes that plague individuals are difficult to diagnose and treat. These conditions, which go by names such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, may affect more than 200,000 individuals in Alabama.
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A New Lead for Musical Theatre at UAB
Valerie Accetta, M.F.A., assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and the head of UAB’s new bachelor of fine arts degree program in musical theatre, has plenty of impressive roles under her belt, from playing romantic lead Margy Frake in the first national tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair to singing baroque opera in Greece.
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New Exhibition Shows Works by Graduating BFA Students at UAB’s AEIVA
Works by three graduating students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Art and Art History will be on exhibition Dec. 1-13, in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.
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Third UAB Student Named Rhodes Scholar
Ameen Barghi of the University of Alabama at Birmingham was elected to the Rhodes scholar Class of 2015 on Saturday. He is one of 32 outstanding U.S. students who will start their all-expenses-paid, graduate educations at Oxford University next fall.
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From Pre-Med to Premeditated
Brian Rice interviews Sharmin Anwer, a recent graduate of UAB’s Department of Government currently attending Vanderbilt Law School.
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Psychology Student Joins List of Past UAB Winners of Prestigious Research Award
Haley Johnson, a psychology doctoral student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was selected as this year’s sole recipient of the Lizette Peterson-Homer Memorial Injury Research Grant. Johnson was chosen from a pool of 19 elite applicants, and she joins her mentor, Assistant Professor Despina Stavrinos, Ph.D., and Professor David Schwebel, Ph.D., as a winner of this award.
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2014 Alumni Award Winners Announced
The College of Arts and Sciences is proud to recognize the achievements of our honorees. We are so very proud of their accomplishments, and we are grateful for their support.
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Mock Trial Teams Excels at Invitational Tournament
UAB’s Mock Trial Team enjoyed successes last weekend at the Middle Tennessee State University Mock Trial Invitational Tournament in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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Barghi, Ryder in the Running for International Academic Honors
Two University of Alabama at Birmingham students are finalists for prestigious scholarship programs. Ameen Barghi, of Birmingham, and Yoonhee Ryder, of Huntsville, have been named finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship, and Ryder also is a finalist for the Marshall Scholarship.
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Winners of Interdisciplinary Awards Announced
Dr. Ryoichi Kawai (Department of Physics) and Dr. Elizabeth Sztul (School of Medicine) are the latest winners of the UAB College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Awards.
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Secrets In Stone
Dr. Cathleen Cummings, Associate Professor of Art History, is featured in UAB Magazine this month for her work decoding religious carvings on the eight-century Virupaksha Temple in Pattadakal, India.
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Ethics Bowl Team Advances to Nationals
In Southeast Regional competition in Tampa, FL, UAB's Ethics Bowl Team won one of four coveted spots to advance to the National Championship Round of 32 teams from 10 national regions in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, Feb.22nd in Costa Mesa, CA.
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Two CAS Students Are Finalists for Rhodes Scholarship
Ameen Barghi and Yoonhee Ryder have been named finalists for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
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