Announcements
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The Lavender Awards virtually celebrate LGBTQ students and faculty
The Office of Student Multicultural & Diversity Programs hosted the fourth annual Lavender Celebration Awards on Wednesday, April 22, 2020
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College names new Executive Director for Business Operations
Kimberly Hazelwood has accepted the position of Executive Director for Business Operations and will start in August 2020.
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Celebrating 20 years of the UAB African American Studies Program
The program was approved as a degree-granting program by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education on April 28, 2000.
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The first annual undergraduate poetry contest in French
The French section organized its first annual undergraduate poetry contest in French entitled Le temps des poètes.
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SSWO Serve at Project Homeless Connect 2020
On February 29th the Student Social Work Organization (SSWO) members had the opportunity to work with One Roof, located at 1704 5th Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203, on the Project Homeless Connect 2020 as Smiling Face Client Guides.
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College Advisors Win UAB Advising Awards
Congratulations to UAB Advising Award winners Deborah Littleton, College of Arts and Sciences Director of Advising and advisor for Criminal Justice majors; and Whitney Woodard, who advises all our Neuroscience and International Studies majors.
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Social Work Outstanding Student Awards
2020 Social Work Outstanding BSW and MSW Award recipients are Reese Joiner and Joseph Abua.
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Michel de Montaigne Endowed Prize in the History of Ideas
In honor of the 16th-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne and the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Catherine Danielou, Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and recipient of the UAB Frederick W. Conner Prize in the History of Ideas, has established the Michel de Montaigne Endowed Prize in the History of Ideas.
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The College to offer training for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
The UAB College of Arts and Sciences will offer a training session for students preparing an application to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Training will occur on Thursday, Sept. 5, at 3:30 p.m. in Volker Hall Lecture Room B.
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Nominations open for 2019 Ireland Award for Scholarly Distinction
Annual prize awarded to College of Arts and Sciences Faculty.
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Department of Social Work Students and Faculty attend Alabama Arise’s Legislative Day
As part of this year’s Social Work Month celebration, four BSW students and Dr. Laurel Hitchcock went to Alabama Arise’s Legislative Day on March 19th in Montgomery, AL to learn more about how to advocate for policy change with elected officials.
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2019 NSF CAREER Award Training
The UAB College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to again offer campus-wide training to junior faculty planning to apply for a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
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Employees recognized at 2018 UAB Service Awards
Twenty-six College of Arts and Sciences employees who have worked at UAB for 20 years or more were recognized at the annual UAB Service Awards Reception on March 1, 2019.
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2019 Winners of College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching Announced
Established in 2018, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes full-time regular faculty members of College of Arts and Sciences who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in teaching.
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Dr. Jill Clements named first-ever winner of the Michel de Montaigne Endowed Prize in the History of Ideas
Jill Clements, Ph.D., has been named as the recipient of the first Michel de Montaigne Endowed Prize in the History of Ideas.
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New ‘History of Ideas’ prize encourages essay submissions through Jan. 6
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Dr. Jonathan Wiesen named new chair of the Department of History
Dr. Jonathan Wiesen comes to UAB from the Department of History at Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale, where he has been department chair since 2016.
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Biology faculty receive NSF grant to increase minority representation in STEM
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Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield pursues international research and service
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Japanese Consul-General presents grant
Takashi Shinozuka, Consul-General of Japan in Atlanta, presented the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures a grant for $30,000 to further Japanese education in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences.
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