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UAB Gospel Choir Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Concert, Touring in May
The UAB Gospel Choir blew the roof off the Alys Stephens Center on November 15th during their 20th anniversary concert as they celebrated with the Birmingham community.
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UAB Tissue Imaging Mass Spectrometry Detects Early Lipid Changes in Acute Kidney Injury
This mass spectrometry method can locate where molecular changes occur in a thin slice of tissue, and it has broad applicability to biomedical research.
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President’s Summer Research Scholarship
The deadline for applying for the President’s Summer Research Scholarship is March 28 at 5 p.m.
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UAB Investigators Find Children of Lower-income Families Can Improve Cognitive Delays with Early Intervention
Developmentally appropriate activities conducted by parents with their child during the first three years after birth reduce childhood cognitive delays in low-resource families.
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Debate Body Language: What Presidential Candidates Are Saying Without Words
Nonverbal communication expert Mark Hickson, Ph.D., offers insight into the gestures and facial expressions displayed by presidential candidates during recent debates.
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Dr. Charles Amsler Named 2016 Winner of Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction
Dr. Charles Amsler, Professor in the Department of Biology, has been named the 2016 winner of the Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction.
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University Relations, College of Arts and Sciences Earn CASE Awards
Awards recognize the very best in university advancement from a diverse body of educational institutions across the Southeast.
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Is Zero-effort Computer Security a Dream? Breaking a New User Verification System
Study shows that, although ZEBRA, a system intended to enable prompt and user-friendly deauthentication, works very well with honest people, opportunistic attackers can fool the system.
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Regulation of Parkinson’s Disease Inflammatory Responses by a MicroRNA
A key role for microRNA-155 in brain inflammation and neurodegeneration makes it both a potential therapeutic target and a biomarker for this progressive disorder.
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Mosteller and Kasman Recital Postponed Until March 7
Due to severe weather predictions, tonight's recital by UAB Professors Paul Mosteller, baritone, and Yakov Kasman, piano, has been postponed until Monday, March 7. Please spread the word and put the new date in your calendars!
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Changes in Shape and ‘Squishiness’ Can Help Drug-containing Microcapsules Reach Tumors
UAB researcher Eugenia Kharlampieva, Ph.D., makes polymer microcapsules meant to carry cancer drugs to the site of a tumor.
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Turtle Copters, Lifesaving Drones Launch Graduate School’s Discoveries in the Making Series
Young UAB researchers are using quadcopters to film sea turtles in the wild and designing long-haul drones to ferry humanitarian aid.
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Alumni Celebrated at Annual Awards Reception
LCDR Joanna Gaines, Ph.D., Lynn Gerald, Ph.D., Trevor Hale, Jessica Randazza and Joy O'Neal were honored at the College of Arts and Sciences' annual Alumni Awards reception on Thursday, January 21 at the UAB Alumni House.
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Cristin Gavin Named Co-Director of UAB Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
Gavin, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Co-Director of the UAB Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP), teaches for the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, Science and Technology Honors Program, and the Graduate School.
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A Conversation with Lauren Slaughter
Lauren Slaughter is an Assistant Professor in the UAB Department of English. Originally from Philadelphia, PA, she teaches creative writing, poetry writing, late American and British literature, and composition. She sat down with graduate student Haley Cotton to talk about writing and teaching.
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The UAB Institute for Human Rights Welcomes First Director
Dr. Kempin Reuter comes to UAB from the Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, where she has been the Director since 2013.
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How Obesity Makes Memory Go Bad
UAB researchers find that epigenetic changes associated with chronic obesity alter expression of memory-related genes in the brain.
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English Alumni Lecture: Stacy Alaimo
The Department of English Alumni Lecture series brings in nationally prominent writers and scholars twice each year to talk about ideas and issues related to the study of English. These lectures are free and open to the public.
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An Evening with James Meredith
Phi Alpha Theta presents "An Evening with James Meredith." Join the roundtable discussion recounting the 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi.
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Biology’s Austad and McClintock to Speak at TEDxBirmingham
UAB Department of Biology professors Steven Austad, PhD, and Jim McClintock, PhD, will both be speakers at TEDxBirmingham 2016.
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