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UAB Faculty, Students Create Free Cancer App for Jefferson and Surrounding Counties
A team of University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty and CIS students have created a free, downloadable smartphone application to help health care providers and cancer patients identify more than 500 valuable community resources for people in North Central Alabama battling cancer.
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New Summer Class: Money and Capitalism
This class, taught by Dr. Glenn Feldman, will cover various economic ideas from the ancient Greeks and Romans; through the early church fathers and medieval thought; through Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and the classical economists; upward to Keynes; and finally to Hayek, Milton Friedman, and recent supply-side and neoliberal fashions.
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Honors for DFLL Faculty Member
Professor Roberto Mayoral Hernández, PhD, received recognition for Best Presentation of AAFLT 2013, at the recent 2014 SCOLT meeting for his paper titled "Spanish Pronunciation: Legends, Myths, and Common Mistakes."
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2014 Outstanding Neuroscience Majors
Congratulations to the UAB Neuroscience students that were recognized at the 14th Annual University of Alabama System Honors Research Conference held at the University of Alabama.
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2014 Interdisciplinary Innovation Forum: “Mathematical Biology”
The upcoming Interdisciplinary Innovation Forum explores Mathematical Biology and features four speakers who will highlight advances in the field, which could determine the future of medicine for generations.
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Speaker: Ralph Kingston on 19th-Century French Exploration
Please join us for a talk by Ralph Kingston, Associate Professor and History Department Graduate Program Officer of Auburn University's History Department.
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Grad Student Wolanyk Awarded NIH Graduate Summer Internship
Graduate student Nathaniel Wolanyk was awarded an NIH Graduate Summer Internship to work under the direction of Dr. Xujing Wang.
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Fabric Artist to Install Large-scale Works at UAB with Help from Community
Fabric and installation artist Amanda Browder will enlist the help of the community for two giant fabric installations at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to celebrate the university’s new cultural corridor.
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UAB Study Aims High-tech Mapping at Violence in Mexico
Chris Kyle, Ph.D., a University of Alabama at Birmingham associate professor of anthropology has been awarded a $40,000 research grant from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. The foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression and dominance.
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UAB Alumni Honors Excellence in Business Top 25 Award Winners
The University of Alabama at Birmingham National Alumni Society honored its second annual Excellence in Business Top 25 2014 award winners with a luncheon Friday, March 7, at the Alumni House.
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UAB Students Accepted to Prestigious Program for Social Change
Seven University of Alabama at Birmingham students have been selected to attend the prestigious Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) at Arizona State University in Phoenix from March 21-23.
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Physics Graduate School Open House
Undergraduate students from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Southeastern Louisiana University, Western Kentucky University and Birmingham Southern College came to learn more about the Physics Graduate Program and the research accomplishments of our faculty.
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Witness to History: Student Film Preserves a Unique Birmingham Story
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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Jeanette Kohl to Keynote UAB/UA Art History Symposium
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Art and Art History will host the Art History Master of Arts Symposium, an annual daylong symposium shared with the University of Alabama, on Friday, March 7, at the UAB Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.
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UAB Gospel Choir Heading to Sin City for Spring Break Tour
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Gospel Choir will travel to Las Vegas for a spring break tour March 26-30.
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UAB to Host Several Summer Writing Camps for Kids
The Red Mountain Writing Project will host several camps this summer for children from middle to high school.
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UAB’s Quinlan Receives Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction
University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor of English Kieran Quinlan, Ph.D., has been named the winner of the 2014 Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction.
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Mood-sensing Sensor Research Receives Best Paper Award at Annual Conference
A research paper on detecting human mood using sensors in mobile devices from postdoctoral fellow Munirul Haque, Ph.D., in the laboratory of Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Computer Science, has been selected as the best paper at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2013 International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems.
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The College Welcomes First Curator for AEIVA
The College of Arts and Sciences is delighted to announce that John Fields has accepted the position of Curator for the Abroms//Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA).
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NBC13 Investigates: All About You
“We pay our bills online, shop online even reconnect with long lost friends on the web. With all that information floating around out there, have you ever wondered how much someone could find out about you? You might be surprised as we found out when Alabama’s 13 Investigates: All About You.”
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CIS/Center Student Receives Entrepreneurship Award
Song Gao, a a graduate student in Computer and Information Sciences, received an entrepreneurship award for his proposal to enhance Internet security.
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UAB Painting Students Compete in Fundraiser to Provide School Art Supplies
Students in University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor of Painting Gary Chapman's intermediate painting class will participate with 80 other artists in Salvador's Deli, an event at the Birmingham Museum of Art on March 2. The event will feature live music, local brews and food, and will showcase artwork made from food items created by local artists and art students.
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Brain Research Tracks Internet Safety Performance, Dispels Assumptions, Identifies Traits of those At-risk
New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that users pay more attention to Internet safety than previously assumed.
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UAB Research Improves Ease and Security of Password Protections
Passwords guard everything from our cellphones to our bank accounts, but they often present a relatively weak challenge to hackers looking for the information that passwords should protect. New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in collaboration with the University of California at Irvine, proposes and tests a variety of methods that add a strong second layer of security to a password.
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UAB Presents 38th Juried Student Exhibition with Juror George Ferrandi
Artist George Ferrandi is the juror for this year’s University of Alabama at Birmingham Juried Student Exhibition, presented by the Department of Art and Art History.
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UAB Research Improves Ease and Security of Password Protections
Passwords guard everything from our cellphones to our bank accounts, but they often present a relatively weak challenge to hackers looking for the information that passwords should protect. New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in collaboration with the University of California at Irvine, proposes and tests a variety of methods that add a strong second layer of security to a password.
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UAB Announces a New Program that Will Increase STEM Teachers in Alabama
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is one of five research universities awarded a grant to implement a program that will increase the number of highly trained secondary science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, teachers in the classroom.
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News Update 2013
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2012
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2011
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2010
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2009
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2008
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2007
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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David Shealy, Other College Faculty and Staff Honored for Years of Service to UAB
When David Shealy, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Physics, accepted an assistant professor position at UAB in 1973, he had no idea he would one day be honored for more than 40 years of service to the university.
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Doss and Corley Honored for their Years of Service
Professors Harriet Amos Doss and Robert Corley were among the nearly 300 employees who will be honored during this year’s UAB Service Awards Program.
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UAB Findings Take Honors at Internet Security Conference
Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., associate professor of computer and information sciences, wondered what was happening in people’s brains when they encountered malware warnings or malicious websites. His collaboration with Rajesh Kana, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, and three students revealed a surprising answer that won them a “Distinguished Paper Award.”
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Two Students Accepted for Membership in Honor Society
Two African American Studies Program students, Amy Kincaid Thomas and Martez Files, have been accepted into Ankh Maat Wedjau Honor Society of the National Council of Black Studies (NCBS).
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UAB Faculty, Students Create Free Cancer App for Jefferson and Surrounding Counties
A team of University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty and students have created a free, downloadable smartphone application to help health care providers and cancer patients identify more than 500 valuable community resources for people in North Central Alabama battling cancer.
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UAB Faculty, Students Create Free Cancer App for Jefferson and Surrounding Counties
A team of University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty and CIS students have created a free, downloadable smartphone application to help health care providers and cancer patients identify more than 500 valuable community resources for people in North Central Alabama battling cancer.
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