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Vulcan History Review Volume 18 Now Available
The latest issue of the Vulcan Historical Review, the journal written and edited by undergraduate and graduate history students at UAB, is now available for all lovers of history to read.
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Physician Creates Lasting Legacy through Language, English Scholarships
Over the course of 26 years, beginning in 1986, William Doggett III, M.D., took 70 undergraduate and graduate-level classes at UAB.
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Earwood Works to Expand Service-Learning
During the past year, 11 faculty have worked together to create new service-learning courses or to integrate components in existing courses. Martha Earwood of Justice Sciences is one of them.
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Physics Alumnus Luther Beegle's Proposal Selected for Mars 2020 Rover
NASA recently announced the selection of seven instrument proposals for inclusion on the next rover to be sent to Mars in 2020. Among the proposals selected, Dr. Luther Beegle, UAB physics alumnus and Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, is the principal investigator for the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC).
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New Leadership Named for The Center for Information Assurance & Joint Forensics Research
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce new leadership for The Center for Information Assurance & Joint Forensics Research (CIA-JFR), effective July 1, 2014.
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Magic Words: Students Discover Birmingham by Writing About It
The city of Birmingham is an open book for students in one UAB English course. It serves as both subject and setting for their work, which hones their skills for writing about place for different public and academic audiences. And they quickly find that Birmingham’s story has plenty of blank pages for them to fill.
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UABTeach
UABTeach lets undergraduate students majoring in math or science receive both their subject matter degree and full teaching certification in four years at no extra time or cost.
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Red Carpet Entrance
Sidewalk Film Festival has accepted three films produced by six College of Arts and Sciences students in the documentary shorts category.
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New WiFi networks Launch July 31
UABIT will introduce a faster, stronger, more secure WiFi network that will offer greater convenience for users with BlazerIDs and simplify WiFi access for guests.
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Garden of Ideas: UAB and Sustainability
Julie Price, inaugural sustainability coordinator and UAB alumna, is out to prove that sustainability is more than recycling or switching off lights when you leave a room, and that the benefits go far beyond the bottom line and good public relations.
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Summer Bridge Program Brings Woodlawn Students to UAB for College Crash Course
A group of 50 rising ninth- and 10th-graders from Woodlawn High School will enjoy an early college experience at the University of Alabama at Birmingham through the Summer Bridge Program from July 28-31.
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“Interlude/Influence” Exhibition to Feature UAB Art Faculty, Alumni Works
Works by faculty and select alumni of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Art and Art History will be featured in an exhibition, “Interlude/Influence: Faculty and Alumni at Work.”
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UAB Presents Exhibition of Bloom Studio Student Design Works
Works by advanced design students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Bloom Studio will be on exhibition Aug. 11-Sept. 22 in the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, 1221 10th Ave. South.
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Department of Social Work Outstanding Undergraduate 2013-14
Mary Rainey Wetzel has been named the Department of Social Work Outstanding Undergraduate, 2013-14.
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Liber Lends Ukraine Expertise to Local News
Professor George Liber's expertise in Soviet, post-Soviet, and East European history has been in demand by local news media ever since the crisis in Ukraine began in February 2014.
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Political Science Students Promote Social Justice
For the past four years a UAB student has been chosen to participate in the weeklong training that focuses on ways to advocate in the global fight against poverty, hunger and injustice.
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UAB College of Arts and Sciences Recognizes Nelson Mandela International Day on July 18
As part of its expanding work in the area of human rights, the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences, home to the new Institute for Human Rights, is encouraging its students, faculty, staff and the greater UAB community to participate in Nelson Mandela International Day on July 18.
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AEIVA Welcomes Its First Director
The College of Arts and Sciences welcomes Lisa Tamiris Becker as the first Director of the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA).
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Computer Science and Information System Scholarship Recipients
The Department of Computer Science and Information System is proud to recognize all of the 2012-2013 UAB CIS scholarship recipients.
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John Maddox, Krista Chambless First Time Attendee Stipend Winners
John Maddox and Krista Chambless were awarded the First Time Attendee Stipend at the AATSP Conference in Panama.
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Graduate Student Spencer Smith's Research Featured by the Carnegie Institution of Washington
CDAC Graduate Student Spencer Smith, along with CDAC Academic Partner Yogesh Vohra and colleagues from the University of Alabama - Birmingham, used diamond anvil cell technology, Raman spectroscopy, synchrotron x-ray diffraction, and multiple ab initio harmonic frequency calculations to explore the solid-state transition behavior of Paracetamol (a commonly used analgesic and anti-pyretic) at hydrostatic pressures up to 21 GPa.
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Top National Security Agencies Recognize UAB’s Cybercrime Research
For the second year in a row, the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have designated the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a UAB Center for Cyber Security.
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Space One Eleven to Unveil Works by UAB Art Professor, Student, July 11
Space One Eleven will unveil works by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture Stacey Holloway, MFA, and Department of Art and Art History student Jacob Phillips during the gallery’s next Front Porch Gathering on Friday, July 11.
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How Advising Helped UAB Professor See the Struggles of Others
Alison Chapman read the email twice before it sank in that she had received the National Academic Advising Association’s award for outstanding faculty advising.
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Solving "Wicked" Problems
Five college faculty members have been chosen as Edge of Chaos Scholars along with 21 other UAB faculty and staff members. In their new role, they will be making presentations throughout the coming academic year on the problems our society has struggled to solve.
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Scholar-Activist to Promote Peace, Justice, and Human Rights
Douglas P. Fry, recently named the UAB Department of Anthropology chair, says he was interested in UAB's planned Institute for Human Rights, which was approved by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees during its June 13 meeting.
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UAB Concert Choir Set for European Competition, Tour July 5-28
On Thursday, July 3, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music will present the UAB Concert Choir in a bon voyage concert as the choir heads to Riga, Latvia, to represent the United States in the “Olympics of choirs,” the Interkultur Eighth World Choir Games from July 5-15.
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UAB Technology Helps Children Learn to Cross the Street Safely
Pedestrian injuries are a leading cause of death in children in the United States and around the world, and a pedestrian simulator developed by University of Alabama at Birmingham psychology professor David Schwebel is helping area children learn how to cross the street in a safe environment.
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A Conversation with Kerry Madden-Lunsford
Kerry Madden-Lunsford, an associate professor in the Department's Creative Writing Program, recently talked to graduate assistant Halley Cotton about her time teaching at UAB, her projects, her role models, and her advice for aspiring writers.
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The Write Stuff
More than two dozen area high school students recently participated in The Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop, hosted by the Department of English.
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Theatre Chair Named to Alabama School of Fine Arts Board
Kelly Allison, chair of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre, has been invited to join the Alabama School of Fine Arts Board of Trustees.
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UAB to create Institute for Human Rights
The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees on June 13 approved a proposal by the University of Alabama at Birmingham to establish the UAB Institute for Human Rights.
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UAB to Create Institute for Human Rights
The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees on June 13 approved a proposal by the University of Alabama at Birmingham to establish the UAB Institute for Human Rights.
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What Makes Art, Art?
Students in the Department of Art and Art History experimented with alternative materials in their recent project, Source Material.
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Fall 2014 Special Topics Class: World War II
Graduate students will be able to take a unique World War II class this fall. HY 693 covers events of the war exactly 70 years after they occurred, which means it will cover the events of August to December 1944 — one of the most important and dramatic periods of the war.
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Students Use Alternative Art Materials for One-Night-Only Exhibition June 18
See sculpture and installations created with materials not commonly found in the art studio during a one-night-only exhibition Wednesday, June 18, presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Art and Art History.
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New Season Schedule of Shows Presented by UAB’s Alys Stephens Center
Tickets go on sale June 16 for just-announced summer and fall 2014 shows presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. For tickets, a copy of The Center Magazine or more information, call 205-975-2787 or visit www.AlysStephens.org.
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UAB Professor Recognized Internationally for Online Activism
The BanglaBraille project developed by University of Alabama at Birmingham Assistant Professor Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., took home the prestigious Jury Award and the People’s Choice Award from German International Radio’s Best of Blogs and Online Activism Awards.
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Amy Morgan Named First UABTeach Master Teacher
Amy Morgan, Ph.D., has been named the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s first master teacher for UABTeach, a program designed to nurture and train a new teaching force of highly qualified instructors in STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering, and math.
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