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Faces of UAB: André Millard
André Millard has been at UAB for over twenty years. This teacher of popular culture, film and music, and World War II is also a collector of music in all formats.
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Professor Sheri Spaine Long Receives Distinguished Honor
Sheri Spaine Long, Ph.D., professor of Spanish in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, has been inducted into La Orden de los Descubridores, one of the highest honors of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi.
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Dr. Carlos Orihuela Promoted to Full Professor
Congratulations to Professor Orihuela!
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New Minor in Spanish for Business
The minor in Spanish for Business consists of four courses (12 credit hours).
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CIS Students Present at the AlaSims International Conference
On May 2nd, four CIS students presented their projects from CS 105 at the AlaSims International 2012 in Huntsville.
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Road Rules: What Happens When the Interstate Comes to Town
Between 1956 and 1972, more than 40,000 miles of high-speed, limited-access highways spread like kudzu across the American landscape—a thriving concrete jungle fertilized by the greenbacks promised in President Dwight Eisenhower's Federal-Aid Highway Act.
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Study Away 2012: Peru
In May 2012, 15 UAB students led by Professors Carlos Orihuela (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures) and Pamela Murray (Department of History) arrived in Lima, Peru, for a crash course in the language, culture, and history of one of the most fascinating countries in the Western hemisphere.
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Collins Appointed Associate Professor Emeritus of English
The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees named Robert Collins, Ph.D., associate professor emeritus in the Department of English during its meeting June 15, 2012.
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Award-Winning Alums Reveal the Secrets of Teaching Foreign Tongues
Three UAB alumni, now award-winning Alabama foreign language teachers, discuss the importance of art, music, literature and even science in helping students gain new perspectives along with new words.
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Alabama State Council on the Arts Honors Adam Vines
Three University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty members were awarded $5,000 fellowship grants by the Alabama State Council on the Arts for 2012-13 based on merit of their work, career achievement and potential and service to the state. Recipients may use the money to create art, improve skills or enhance their artistic careers.
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Mock Trial Team Faces Tough Cases and Competition
In April 2012, UAB's mock trial team put in a strong showing at the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) national championships in Minnesota.
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UAB EMSAP Class of 2012 Votes Dr. Chris Lawson Outstanding Professor in Physics
The graduating seniors of the EMSAP Class of 2012 voted Dr. Christopher M. Lawson as its Outstanding Professor in Physics.
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Graduate student Jeff Montgomery selected to attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
The Scientific Review Panel of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings has selected Jeffrey Montgomery, a doctoral student in physics, to participate in the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting that will be held from July 1 to July 6, 2012, in Lindau, Germany.
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Physics Grad Students Awarded Fellowships for 2012-13 Through Graduate Research Scholars Program
Three physics graduate students were awarded fellowships for the 2012-2013 academic year through the Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program.
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UAB Study: Teens Plugged into Media Nearly 24 Total Hours Daily
A University of Alabama at Birmingham study found adolescents ages 14-15 are engaged in media more than 23 total hours daily.
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UAB Helped Student Write her Future
Ashley Jones knew about the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s reputation for churning out top scientists and physicians. As a rising high-school senior with aspirations of becoming a writer, though, she wondered if UAB would be a good fit.
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Sleepy Teen Pedestrians More Likely to Get Hit, UAB Study Says
A University of Alabama at Birmingham study reveals sleep-deprived adolescents are more likely to be hit by cars while crossing the street than those who are well-rested.
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Recipients of 2012 Outstanding Physics Students Awards Announced
Physics graduate and undergraduate students were selected as the recipients of this year's outstanding student awards.
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Professor Chris Lawson Testifies to the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce
On behalf of the EPSCoR/IDeA Coalition Dr. Christopher M. Lawson from the University of Alabama at Birmingham testified in front of the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies on March 22.
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Biology Senior Earns Academic Honor from USA Today
Jessica Bradford, a senior in the UAB Department of Biology and incoming student in the UAB School of Medicine, has been named to the USA Today 2011 All-USA College Academic Second Team.
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Safety Patrol
UAB child safety expert David Schwebel has helped call attention to the everyday dangers of crosswalks, swimming pools, and dog bites through a series of intriguing, headline-grabbing experiments.
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Neverending Stories: What Dickens Tells Us at 200
Danny Siegel, a specialist in Victorian literature who has written several academic studies of Dickens’s works, shares his love of Dickens in a graduate seminar at UAB.
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Jemison Visiting Professorship is Just Around the Corner!
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Gary Warner’s Work with FBI to be Featured on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams
Gary Warner, UAB’s director of Research and Computer Forensics, will be featured on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams at 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, 2012, in a story about the FBI Trident Breach case.
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The Tom Sawyer Effect in Computer Security
The security of computer systems often relies on the actions or decisions of the end users. However, users tend to perform poorly at security tasks or fail to comply with security instructions.
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Computing Devices Become Smaller and Cheaper, but Are They Also Less Secure?
Small devices, especially Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, are being ubiquitously deployed in: contactless ATM and credit cards, access cards, e-passports, medical implants and even mobile phones (such as Google Wallet charged with NFC technology), to name a few.
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Professors Thamar Solorio and Ragib Hasan Receive ONR Grant
Profs. Thamar Solorio and Ragib Hasan received a three year award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to support their research on document signatures.
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Austin Robinson Wins the Mu Alpha Theta Award
Austin Robinson, a high school senior student at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, won the Mu Alpha Theta Award for “the most challenging, thorough, and creative investigation of a problem involving mathematics accessible to high school students” at the Central Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
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Kavita Nadendla Earns Outstanding Neuroscience Student Honors
Kavita Nadendla is the Outstanding Neuroscience Student for 2012.
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Physics Honors Students to Present at UA System Honors Research Day
Physics Honors students Ustun Sunay and Alex Skinner have been selected to give oral presentations of their undergraduate honors research at the Eleventh Annual University of Alabama System Honor Research Day on Friday, April 13th, on the Tuscaloosa campus. Their abstracts were 17 out of 51 selected for oral presentations. Professors Mary Ellen Zvanut and Renato Camata are their honors research advisors.
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DFLL Student Wins Prestigious Scholarship
Devin Thorne, a junior with a double major in Chinese Studies and Psychology, has been selected for the prestigious Critical Language Scholarship.
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Wheeler Wins UNCF/Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship Award
Ashton Wheeler, a junior and first generation college student, has received one of 15 (nationwide) UNCF/Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship Awards for 2012.
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DFLL Spanish Professor Teaches Air Force Cadets
Dr. Long has been teaching as a distinguished visiting professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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Boys Scouts Learn about Native American Culture
On Thursday January 19, 2012, Anthro-TEACH gave a presentation about Native American culture for Boy Scout Pack 397 of Homewood, AL at the Trinity United Methodist Church. The student presenters were Christel Carlisle, Jade Delisle, Alea Rouse. The overall presentation showed the children how Native Americans utilized their natural environment. They covered the topics of lithics (stone tools) and music and dance.
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Physics Study Suggests Nanodiamonds Safe for Implants
Nanodiamonds designed to toughen artificial joints also might prevent the inflammation caused when hardworking metal joints shed debris into the body, according to an early study published this week in the journal Acta Biomaterialia.
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APT and UAB go to Fiji
UAB Anthropology went to the Fiji Islands and Alabama Public television was there to see it.
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