Announcements
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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UAB Technology Helps Children Learn to Cross the Street Safely
Pedestrian injuries are a leading cause of death in children in the United States and around the world, and a pedestrian simulator developed by University of Alabama at Birmingham psychology professor David Schwebel is helping area children learn how to cross the street in a safe environment.
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A Conversation with Kerry Madden-Lunsford
Kerry Madden-Lunsford, an associate professor in the Department's Creative Writing Program, recently talked to graduate assistant Halley Cotton about her time teaching at UAB, her projects, her role models, and her advice for aspiring writers.
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The Write Stuff
More than two dozen area high school students recently participated in The Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop, hosted by the Department of English.
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UAB to create Institute for Human Rights
The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees on June 13 approved a proposal by the University of Alabama at Birmingham to establish the UAB Institute for Human Rights.
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UAB to Create Institute for Human Rights
The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees on June 13 approved a proposal by the University of Alabama at Birmingham to establish the UAB Institute for Human Rights.
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What Makes Art, Art?
Students in the Department of Art and Art History experimented with alternative materials in their recent project, Source Material.
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Fall 2014 Special Topics Class: World War II
Graduate students will be able to take a unique World War II class this fall. HY 693 covers events of the war exactly 70 years after they occurred, which means it will cover the events of August to December 1944 — one of the most important and dramatic periods of the war.
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Students Use Alternative Art Materials for One-Night-Only Exhibition June 18
See sculpture and installations created with materials not commonly found in the art studio during a one-night-only exhibition Wednesday, June 18, presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Art and Art History.
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New Season Schedule of Shows Presented by UAB’s Alys Stephens Center
Tickets go on sale June 16 for just-announced summer and fall 2014 shows presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. For tickets, a copy of The Center Magazine or more information, call 205-975-2787 or visit www.AlysStephens.org.
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A New Way to Teach Chemistry: Video Selfies
Can making movies make you a better chemist? UAB chemistry professor Joe March and graduate student Mitzy Erdmann have proven that it does. Their research-tested approach is now implemented across UAB's introductory General Chemistry curriculum.
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The Books of Summer
The firecracker-hot days of an Alabama summer provide the perfect encouragement to get lost in the cool, crisp pages of a good book. But with infinite shelves of reading material available, where do you begin? We asked faculty members in UAB’s Department of English for inspiration, and they shared a few of the titles that sparked their passion for literature.
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Speed Metal: This Nano-discovery is a Really Big Deal
What's the fastest thing you can imagine? How about the smallest? Well never mind, because there really is no way to wrap your head around what's going on in David Hilton's laser lab in the UAB Department of Physics.
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