Announcements
Social Work Students Serve those in Need for Valentine's Day
Social work students served a meal at First Light shelter in Birmingham on Valentine's Day. Students in Dr. Moak's Human Behavior in the Social Environment class partnered with other community members to provide the meal for the day.
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Driving and Autism: Researchers Studying “How to Help Young Adults be Successful”
A new UAB study found no significant difference in driving performance between young adults with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing peers. It's the first lab-driven research on a topic that's gaining in importance as a new generation of teens with ASD reaches driving age.
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Da Yan Surveys Big Graph Analytics Platforms
This is the first text to provide a comprehensive survey that clearly summarizes the key features and techniques developed in the tens of existing big graph analytics systems, which were developed recently to deal with massive graphs in real-life applications such as online social networks and knowledge graphs.
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Writer, Composer and Performer Daniel Beaty Recipient of the 2017 Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Award
Beaty will speak and perform his 2006 critically acclaimed, off-Broadway solo play, “Emergency,” at 4 p.m. Friday, March 10, in UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
Researchers describe a novel underlying mechanism involved in PTSD and other anxiety disorders
This study shows how stress blocks the release of an anti-anxiety neuropeptide in the brain, and it could pave the way for new therapeutic targets for PTSD.
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Alumni Celebrated at Annual Awards Reception
Daisy Wong, Ph.D., Robert Maddox, J.D., Christina Richey, Ph.D., Charles Scribner and Marcus Newell were honored at the College of Arts and Sciences' annual Alumni Awards reception on Tuesday, January 24 at the UAB Alumni House.
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Metaphysics Capstone Course: Think About the Big Questions
Does your possible identical twin exist? If a clay statue is on the table and nothing else is on the table, are there three things on the table — the statue, the lump of clay of which it is made, and the clay in the statue? Are the past, present, and future real? Is space a big container? Are numbers real things that do not exist in space or time? Is there any moment at which all of you exists?
Consider these questions and others in PHL 408-2D: Capstone. The class is taught by Dr. Marjorie Price and is held T/TH 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Prerequisites: two previous philosophy courses.
Consider these questions and others in PHL 408-2D: Capstone. The class is taught by Dr. Marjorie Price and is held T/TH 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Prerequisites: two previous philosophy courses.
News Update 2016
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
Read more41st Juried Annual Student Exhibition
The 41st Juried Annual Student Exhibition — coordinated by the Department of Art & Art History (DAAH) and presented at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA) galleries — includes student works selected by a professional artist (juror) and functions as an experiential learning opportunity for the students of the DAAH. Entry deadline: February 17, 2017.
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Four new NSF grants — three in neuroscience — deepen UAB’s research portfolio, forge collaborations
Alabama now has more EPSCoR Track II grants than any other state following the award of basic science grants meant to stimulate competitive research in regions of the country traditionally less able to compete for such research funds.
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UAB Art’s Project Space Hosts One-Night Only Student Showcases on Collage and Photography, Dec. 6 and 13
Two, one-night only student showcases are set for Project Space, presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Art History. Both exhibitions are free and open to the public.
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Tracing an Invisible City: Visually Representing Place, Symbols, and Codes
Department of Art and Art History and Honors College to present interdisciplinary visual research with student showcase Dec. 1.
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Social Work Study Turns to Community Board for New Insights on HIV Health Outcomes
A study led by Department of Social Work Assistant Professor D. Scott Batey is using community-based participatory research to find relationships between community environments and health outcomes for people living with HIV.
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Flight School: Students Chart New Courses for Drones
UAB students are inventing new uses for unmanned aerial vehicles—UAVs or drones—employing them to reveal nature’s secrets and even save lives.
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Department of Anthropology Announces New Peace and Human Rights Master's Degree Program
The new program, only the second of its kind in anthropology in the US, focuses on peace as behavioral process at multiple levels including at the level of individuals, families, groups, communities, cultures and nations.
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UAB Chemistry Professor Margaret Johnson Awarded NIH MIRA R35 Grant
The Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a five-year MIRA R35 grant to Margaret Johnson, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, and coworkers.
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Workspace Coffee Break with Sculpture Professor Stacey Holloway Set for Oct. 3
The University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Art History continues its ongoing Workspace Coffee Break series with works by sculpture professor Stacey Holloway.
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Research Proposes Background Noise to Prevent Side Channel Attacks on Computer Keyboards
Researchers have developed a mechanism that emits sound to thwart eavesdroppers from detecting passwords entered with computer keyboards.
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Stealth Pig Cells May Hold the Key to Treating Diabetes in Humans
Coating insulin-producing cell-clusters with a thin protective layers may be a way to modify and use pig tissue to ultimately treat human diabetes. Testing in mice is the next step.
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Research Finds Novel Defense Against Sophisticated Smartphone Keyloggers
Researchers have turned a malicious application into a defense mechanism for attacks on motion sensors in mobile devices.
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