All Recent News
UAB Alumnus Dr. Nenad Velsavljevic Honored with DOE/NNSA Award of Excellence
On September 10, 2014, Dr. Donald L. Cook, Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, presented the award to project team leader N. Velisavljevic (on right).
Read more
UAB Marching Blazers Heading to Hawaii, Ready to Explore New Opportunities
Students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Marching Blazers are preparing for a trip of a lifetime: traveling to Hawaii on March 21-28.
Read more
Gospel Choir presents “A Night with Ada J. Womack” for Black History Month
Birmingham visual and performing artist, poet, writer and speaker Ada J. Womack will give a guest lecture Monday, Feb. 23, as part of an interactive University of Alabama at Birmingham event focused on the historical and current lives of African-Americans.
Read more
Over 165 Students Recognized at College of Arts and Sciences Scholarship & Awards Luncheon
On January 23, the UAB Alumni House was filled with some of the College’s finest—representing the outstanding intellect, creativity, and character at UAB—as we celebrated the 2015 Scholarship and Awards Luncheon.
Read more
Blueprint for Success — UAB’s Undergraduate Neuroscience Major
Nine years ago, the University of Alabama at Birmingham had an aha moment: Create an undergraduate neuroscience major that would link the medical and university portions of UAB and produce skilled young researchers destined for medical school or top graduate programs.
Read more
A Conversation with Undergraduate Neuroscience Program Alumnus Austin Luker
Austin Luker, one of the earliest undergraduate neuroscience majors, graduated summa cum laude from UAB and is now a fourth-year student in the UAB School of Medicine.
Read more
9 Grants Awarded to Promote Teaching Innovation
Professors from nine disciplines were awarded the second annual Teaching Innovation and Development Awards to support new approaches to instruction and learning.
Read more
Darwin Day Celebrations
The Department of Biology, in partnership with the Department of Anthropology, will be hosting a series of free public events to celebrate Charles Darwin’s 206th birthday February 12-13.
Read more
UAB to Host ICA Southeastern Festival, 13th Annual Clarinet Symposium
The International Clarinet Association has selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham to host one of three regional festivals Saturday, Feb. 21-Sunday, Feb. 22, in conjunction with the 13th annual UAB Clarinet Symposium.
Read more
CIS Student Receives Best Paper Award in Social Informatics 2014 at Harvard University
Abu Awal Md Shoeb, the lead author of the paper titled "Spam Campaign Cluster Detection Using Redirected URLs and Randomized Sub-Domains", presented their work in the Third ASE international conference on Social Informatics 2014 at Harvard University on December 14, 2014 and received the Best Paper Award.
Read more
Students, Faculty to Study Cities of the Future at a2ru Summit
University of Alabama at Birmingham students and faculty will join peers at a national conference to shape cities of the future.
Read more
UAB Students to Showcase High-impact Community Projects at Clinton Summit
Seventeen University of Alabama at Birmingham students have been selected to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University on March 6-8 at the University of Miami.
Read more
Alumni Updates from the Department of Sociology
Our graduates have experienced a lot of success in their post-graduation careers.
Read more
Lecture: Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
The CAS Department of History and the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society present Dr. Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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?
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
The DFLL Welcomes Yumi Takamiya, Assistant Professor in Japanese
Her research interests include pragmatics, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and teacher development.
Read more
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.
Read more
News Update 2014
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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’.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more