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DFLL Student Markelle Smith Awarded the College Language Association Study Abroad Scholarship
Upon receiving his degree in Spanish from UAB, Markelle plans to attend pharmacy school and use his language skills to work as a pharmacist in urban areas with large Hispanic populations.
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Rebecca Bach Named 2011 Ireland Award Recipient
Rebecca Ann Bach first fell in love with the works of William Shakespeare as a sixth grader at a tiny Presbyterian grammar school in New York. She was picked to play Calpurnia in “Julius Caesar” and stood before her class robed in a purple bed sheet and let Shakespeare’s words roll off her 10-year-old tongue.
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Krish Varma Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Teach in India
Krish Varma, a senior majoring in economics and Spanish, has been awarded a 2011 Fulbright scholarship to teach in India for a year.
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Colin Davis Receives President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Colin Davis was one of eleven faculty honored with the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching during the annual Faculty Awards Convocation, Wednesday, Feb. 23.
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DFLL Student Molly Morrison Wins AAFLT Joanna B. Crane Scholarship for Study Abroad
After studying abroad, she hopes to begin the Alternative Masters Teacher Education Program at UAB.
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UAB Student Grace Benton Receives Critical Languages Scholarship
Grace Benton, an International Studies major with a regional concentration in the Middle East and minors in Spanish and Arabic, has been awarded a 2011 Department of State Critical Languages Scholarship to study advanced Arabic in Jordan.
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Three Alumnae Sweep the Top Statewide Teaching Awards
This past Saturday at the annual meeting of the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers (AAFLT), held at the University of Montevallo, three alumnae of the UAB Foreign Language Education program and former Spanish majors swept the top statewide teaching awards.
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Malinda Blair O’Leary, Ph.D Selected as the Winner of the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers 2010 Outstanding Post-Secondary Teacher Award
This nomination is a tribute to Malinda's foreign language instruction at UAB and throughout Alabama. She was recognized at this year's AAFLT conference on February 5th.
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Hilton Earns NSF CAREER AWARD
David Hilton, Ph.D., an assistant professor of physics, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
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UAB Professor is State’s Best, Says Carnegie Foundation
Andrew Keitt, Ph.D., an associate professor of history in the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences has been named the 2010 Alabama Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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Dr. Catherine Daniélou Awarded the 2010 Frederick W. Conner Prize in the History of Ideas
DFLL faculty member Catherine Danielou received this award for her essay entitled: "Our Days Pass Too Quickly: Madame De Sévigné and Aging."
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Honors Student Jennifer Ghandhi's Story of Her UAB on the Camino Study Away Experience Published
UAB Alum Jennifer Ghandhi had one last UAB adventure after her senior year: She spent a month hiking Spain's Camino de Santiago, a centuries-old pilgrim route to the bones of Saint James in the town of Santiago de Compostela.
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Carlos Orihuela's Recent Book Makes Impact in Peruvian Media
DFLL faculty member Carlos Orihuela's recently published Abordajes y Aproximaciones. Ensayos sobre Literatura Peruana del Siglo XX (1950-2001) has gained much attention from the Peruvian media.
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Mountain of Memories
The mines of Birmingham’s Red Mountain fell silent nearly 50 years ago, but Ike Matson never did.
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Japanese Distance Learning Course Receives Accolades
Japanese Instructor Tim Cook gains attention for his innovating online Japanese course. In collaboration with the DFLL, the Department of Communication Studies, and the Department of Theatre, Sinsei Tim has created quite an experience.
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Telling Tales: Teaching Students to Capture Oral Histories
Last fall, historians Pamela Sterne King and Staci Glover, along with visual and applied anthropologist Rosie O'Beirne, debuted Untold Stories: Finding and Telling Stories You Haven't Heard in History Class.
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Novelist James Braziel Joins the UAB Faculty
James Braziel, MFA, author of Birmingham, 35 Miles (Bantam 2008) and Snakeskin Road (Bantam 2009) has joined the UAB's Department of English as an assistant professor of creative writing. A native of Pitts, Ga., Braziel has published fiction and poetry in Berkeley Fiction Review, Chattahoochee Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Clackamas Literary Review, among other journals.
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Study Away 2010: Japan
In 2010, Dr. John E. Van Sant led a study away group focusing on the history and culture of Japan.
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Living History
For the past several semesters, UAB historian Andrew Keitt has been experimenting with a different way of teaching—a form of time travel called Reacting to the Past, in which students live ideas, rather than memorize them.
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Study Away 2010: Historic Preservation in the South
In 2010, Pamela Sterne King led a group of UAB students on a study away focusing on Historic Preservation in the American South.
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Science Closing in on Mystery of Age-Related Memory Loss, Says UAB Neurobiologist
The world’s scientific community may be one step closer to understanding age-related memory loss, and to developing a drug that might help boost memory.
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DFLL Student Krish Varma Awarded Critical Language Scholarship to Study in India
Junior Krish Varma (Spanish and Economics Major, Honors Student) is the recipient of a 2010 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship.
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Faces of UAB: Kerry Madden
The twists of Kerry Madden’s writing life wouldn’t be out of place in a novel. She has written several — and also published plays and poetry, scripts for soap operas, and a biography of Harper Lee. Her teaching career has been equally eclectic, including stints at several prestigious writing programs as well as workshops for teen moms in Los Angeles and foreign language learners outside Shanghai.
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Stitching a Story: UAB Alumna Finds Novel Inspiration in Alabama
Irene Latham always knew she was meant to be a writer. It just took her a few decades to find the right path. The author and 1991 UAB graduate recently returned to her alma mater to talk with students about the craft of writing, the art of finding inspiration, and her first novel, Leaving Gee’s Bend, which debuted this spring.
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Alison Chapman Honored for Excellence in Teaching
Thirteen faculty members were honored with the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching during the annual Faculty Awards Convocation. One of the people honored was the Department of English's Alison Chapman.
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DFLL Student Grace Benton selected as Clinton Scholar
University Honors student Grace Benton, 20, of Mobile, will spend spring 2010 studying at the American University in Dubai (AUD) in the United Arab Emirates as a William Jefferson Clinton Scholar.
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New UAB Study Sheds Light on Brain’s Response to Distress, Unexpected Events
In a new study, psychologists at UAB are able to see in detail for the first time how various regions of the human brain respond when people experience an unexpected or traumatic event.
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$10 Million Endowment Established for UAB’s McKnight Brain Institute
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation, of Orlando, Fla., are establishing a $10 million endowment for the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at UAB to support the institute and the Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging.
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UAB Launches Neuroscience Major
It is our pleasure to announce a new and very special major at the University of Alabama at Birmingham: Neuroscience.
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DFLL Student Elisha Gentle Receives Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship
Elisha Gentle, Economics major and Arabic minor has been awarded the prestigious Rotary Club International Ambassadorial Scholarship. Gentle will spend the 2010-11 academic year in Cairo, Egypt at the American University in Cairo working towards a Master's degree in Middle Eastern studies.
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UAB Professor Researches Historic Birmingham Neighborhoods
UAB Professor Pamela Sterne King tells the story of one of Birmingham's oldest neighborhoods, Fountain Heights, through historic preservation.
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Bill Carter Gives Well-received Talk on Proust in Cabourg, France
Trouville et Cabourg, France -Dr. William C. Carter, the highest regarded American Proust scholar and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UAB, spoke at a conference organized to give homage to Marcel Proust.
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Dr. Jones Field Work in Fiji
The National Science Foundation has developed an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) grant competition that provides funding to universities that create opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to participate in "hands-on" scientific research.
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UAB Researcher David Sweatt Highlighted on PBS Show NOVA
University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher David Sweatt and the work of his lab was highlighted on the Public Broadcast System television show NOVA.
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Remodeling the Brain
This week, BlazerCast features a rehabilitation therapy developed by a UAB neuroscientist which produces changes in the structure of the brain, the first evidence of actual brain remodeling resulting from a rehabilitation therapy.
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Green Dreams: Birmingham Park Plans Bloom Again
Call it an industrial evolution. Birmingham, once smothered in smoke and soot, could soon be covered in green—and reign as the nation's number-one city in park land per capita.
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