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Urinetown: Theatre UAB Presents Big, Irreverent, Clean Musical

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre will present the musical “Urinetown” April 9-13, with shows at 7:30 p.m. nightly April 9-12 and a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in the Sirote Theatre at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. Read more

CAS Students Place at 2014 Graduate Student Research Days

Two advanced students in The College, Nicole Watkins in History and Kyle Besing in Mathematics, won second and first place, respectively, in this year’s Graduate Student Research Days, hosted by UAB Graduate School. Read more

Speaker: David Wasserstein on “How Islam Saved the Jews”

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. David J. Wasserstein, Eugene Greener Jr. Professor of Jewish History at Vanderbilt University, titled “How Islam Saved the Jews.” The event is cosponsored by the Department of History and the Birmingham Islamic Society. Read more

Expo Highlights Undergraduate Scholarship

The seventh annual UAB Expo: An Exposition of Undergraduate Scholarship will showcase research and scholarly work by University of Alabama at Birmingham undergraduate students across all academic disciplines and departments. Read more

Going Deep: UAB Biology’s Antarctica Team

For most of us, Antarctica is a story of ice. But for UAB Biology, the story is about what happens beneath the icy surface. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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." Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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). Read more

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.” Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more