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ArtPlay Offers New Session of Arts Classes, Season of Community Events
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Come to the 2014-2015 UAB Writers Series
The UAB Writers' Series is an annual offering of the Creative Writing program. Nationally recognized authors are invited to UAB to give readings and participate in Q-and-A sessions. Readings are free and open to the public.
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Vulcan History Review Volume 18 Now Available
The latest issue of the Vulcan Historical Review, the journal written and edited by undergraduate and graduate history students at UAB, is now available for all lovers of history to read.
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Physician Creates Lasting Legacy through Language, English Scholarships
Over the course of 26 years, beginning in 1986, William Doggett III, M.D., took 70 undergraduate and graduate-level classes at UAB.
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New Leadership Named for The Center for Information Assurance & Joint Forensics Research
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce new leadership for The Center for Information Assurance & Joint Forensics Research (CIA-JFR), effective July 1, 2014.
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Magic Words: Students Discover Birmingham by Writing About It
The city of Birmingham is an open book for students in one UAB English course. It serves as both subject and setting for their work, which hones their skills for writing about place for different public and academic audiences. And they quickly find that Birmingham’s story has plenty of blank pages for them to fill.
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UABTeach
UABTeach lets undergraduate students majoring in math or science receive both their subject matter degree and full teaching certification in four years at no extra time or cost.
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New WiFi networks Launch July 31
UABIT will introduce a faster, stronger, more secure WiFi network that will offer greater convenience for users with BlazerIDs and simplify WiFi access for guests.
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Garden of Ideas: UAB and Sustainability
Julie Price, inaugural sustainability coordinator and UAB alumna, is out to prove that sustainability is more than recycling or switching off lights when you leave a room, and that the benefits go far beyond the bottom line and good public relations.
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Summer Bridge Program Brings Woodlawn Students to UAB for College Crash Course
A group of 50 rising ninth- and 10th-graders from Woodlawn High School will enjoy an early college experience at the University of Alabama at Birmingham through the Summer Bridge Program from July 28-31.
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“Interlude/Influence” Exhibition to Feature UAB Art Faculty, Alumni Works
Works by faculty and select alumni of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Art and Art History will be featured in an exhibition, “Interlude/Influence: Faculty and Alumni at Work.”
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UAB Presents Exhibition of Bloom Studio Student Design Works
Works by advanced design students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Bloom Studio will be on exhibition Aug. 11-Sept. 22 in the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, 1221 10th Ave. South.
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Political Science Students Promote Social Justice
For the past four years a UAB student has been chosen to participate in the weeklong training that focuses on ways to advocate in the global fight against poverty, hunger and injustice.
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UAB College of Arts and Sciences Recognizes Nelson Mandela International Day on July 18
As part of its expanding work in the area of human rights, the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences, home to the new Institute for Human Rights, is encouraging its students, faculty, staff and the greater UAB community to participate in Nelson Mandela International Day on July 18.
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AEIVA Welcomes Its First Director
The College of Arts and Sciences welcomes Lisa Tamiris Becker as the first Director of the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA).
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Space One Eleven to Unveil Works by UAB Art Professor, Student, July 11
Space One Eleven will unveil works by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture Stacey Holloway, MFA, and Department of Art and Art History student Jacob Phillips during the gallery’s next Front Porch Gathering on Friday, July 11.
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Solving "Wicked" Problems
Five college faculty members have been chosen as Edge of Chaos Scholars along with 21 other UAB faculty and staff members. In their new role, they will be making presentations throughout the coming academic year on the problems our society has struggled to solve.
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Scholar-Activist to Promote Peace, Justice, and Human Rights
Douglas P. Fry, recently named the UAB Department of Anthropology chair, says he was interested in UAB's planned Institute for Human Rights, which was approved by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees during its June 13 meeting.
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UAB Concert Choir Set for European Competition, Tour July 5-28
On Thursday, July 3, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music will present the UAB Concert Choir in a bon voyage concert as the choir heads to Riga, Latvia, to represent the United States in the “Olympics of choirs,” the Interkultur Eighth World Choir Games from July 5-15.
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