Announcements
Biology Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow Wins at Alabama Chess Championship
Ahmed Amer, the Department of Biology’s Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, walked away with quite the trophy at the 2015 Alabama State Chess Championship last month.
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Vohra Receives Alabama Innovation Funding
Yogesh Vohra at UAB and research partner Vista Engineering received $250,000 to explore the potential of developing Alabama ventures based on diamond-based technologies.
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Tugs and Pulls: How a Molecular Motor Untangles Protein
E. coli ClpB is a bacterial enzyme that untangles proteins. Such tangles are hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. A study led by UAB's Aaron Lucius, Ph.D., offers new insight on this amazing molecular machine, and could eventually point toward new treatment approaches.
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King Crabs Threaten Antarctic Ecosystem Due to Warming Ocean
King crabs may soon become high-level predators in Antarctic marine ecosystems where they have not played a role in tens of millions of years, according to a new study on which UAB researchers worked in conjunction with other institutions.
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UAB Social Work Students Partner to Organize Baby Shower for Family in Need
UAB Department of Social Work students recently sponsored a baby shower for a couple facing HIV and cancer.
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UAB Receives Prestigious Funding for Aging Research Center
UAB has been named one of the country’s six Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging.
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Crowdsourcing Science: How Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is Becoming a Research Tool
A growing number of researchers, from computer scientists to philosophers, are taking an interest in the "artificial artificial intelligence" offered by Amazon's microwork platform.
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Dr. Richard Dluhy Named New Chair of the Department of Chemistry
Dr. Richard Dluhy has been named the new Chair of the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry. Dr. Dluhy comes to UAB from the University of Georgia, where he was a Professor in the Department of Chemistry.
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When Computers Learn to Understand Doctors' Notes, the World Will Be a Better Place
By training computers to pick out timing clues in medical records, UAB machine learning expert Steven Bethard, Ph.D., aims to help individual physicians visualize patient histories, and researchers recruit for clinical trials.
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Department of Chemistry Seminars Fall Semester 2015
The Department of Chemistry's Fall 2015 seminars will be held in CHEM 101, 901 14th Street South, at 11:00 a.m., unless otherwise noted.
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Two UAB Advisors Honored at National Level
Tyna Adams, advisor in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, received the Outstanding New Advisor Award during the National Academic Advising Association annual meeting.
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Antarctic SeaScience Expedition
Ever wonder what our UAB Department of Biology marine scientists do when they head south to Antarctica? Travel along with researchers from UAB and other partner institutions in this new documentary video.
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Ocean Acidification to Lead the Way for Food Chain Changes
UAB research shows that phytoplankton, the foundation of all marine life, will experience varied growth rates due to ocean acidification levels during the next century.
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Looking for Forensic Clues at the Library
Dr. Elizabeth Gardner, director of the Forensic Science graduate program, led the Birmingham Public Library event “Adventures in the World of Forensics” at the Avondale library.
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Undergraduate Neuroscience Major Feeds UAB Research
Nine years ago, UAB created an undergraduate neuroscience major to link the medical and university portions of UAB and produce skilled, young researchers destined for medical school or top graduate programs.
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Research Finds Males and Females Process Chronic Pain Differently
New research by UAB researcher and psychology professor Robert Sorge, Ph.D., and team published today in Nature Neuroscience online challenges the common belief that males and females process pain in the same way.
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Autistic Children Improved Reading and Brain Activity After 10-Week Reading Intervention
Ten weeks of intensive reading intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder was enough to strengthen the activity of loosely connected areas of their brains that work together to comprehend reading, UAB researchers have found. Hello.
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Putting Nest to Work
Aura, a system that pools the unused processing power available in Web-linked devices like the Nest, is the brainchild of a UAB team led by Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences.
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Fun Facts About the UAB College of Arts and Sciences
What do a lion trainer, Rhodes Scholars, a space archaeologist and country music star Sam Hunt have in common?
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Oral Bacterium Possibly Associated with Systemic Disease Found in Alabama Schoolchildren
A noteworthy prevalence of a recently discovered serotype of oral bacterium was found for the first time in schoolchildren in an Alabama town, according to research conducted by Stephanie Momeni, a doctoral candidate in the UAB Department of Biology.
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