Announcements
“How Islam Saved the Jews” in Birmingham this Week
The Department of History and the Birmingham Islamic Society will host a free, public lecture on “How Islam Saved the Jews” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 24.
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Acclaimed French Author and Professor to Speak at UAB
The Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures and Alliance Française of Birmingham will present a lecture in English by Fredéric Gros, professor of political philosophy at theUniversité de Paris-Est Créteil and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po Paris), at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 26.
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Spring 2014 Awards and Honors for College Faculty, Advisors, and Students
Congratulations to these highly accomplished, hardworking, and talented individuals in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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BFA Student Works on Exhibition April 30-May 22
Student works including graphic design, drawing, painting, printmaking and photography will be featured in a new Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibition at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is the undergraduate professional degree for studio art in the Department of Art and Art History. These exhibitions are the pinnacle of achievement for those students accepted into the BFA program at UAB. Read more
The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is the undergraduate professional degree for studio art in the Department of Art and Art History. These exhibitions are the pinnacle of achievement for those students accepted into the BFA program at UAB. Read more
CIS Professor, Ragib Hasan to Make Cloud Computing More Secure
As a world-renowned doctoral research university, UAB expects its teacher-scholars to win competitive grants and other awards to support their research. And they do not disappoint. This year, four professors have been chosen to receive National Science Foundation Career Awards — a prize the foundation describes among its most prestigious.
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UAB’s Give Something, Change Everything, off to a Good Start Online
Online contributions over six months since the public launch of The Campaign for UAB: Give Something, Change Everything, the most ambitious fundraising initiative in the history of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, have already surpassed total online gifts from the entire previous fiscal year.
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UAB Artists Create Mural for Sun Ra Tribute Concert
This week, while the Birmingham Seven perform Ra’s music for “Sun Ra: Musician, Philosopher, and Poet,” the audience will see a set created by University of Alabama at Birmingham students, faculty and staff.
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Alabama High School Student Places Second in Preliminary for International Brain Bee
High school students from across Alabama tested their neuroscience knowledge at the fourth annual Alabama Brain Bee held at theUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham on Feb. 22, and the winner placed second nationally in March.
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Alys Stephens Center Presents Free 3-D Light Dreams II Festival May 8-10
Join the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center and some of Birmingham’s most innovative artists for the second annual Light Dreams festival, a free celebration of art, music, dance and light.
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Research Improves Ease and Security of Password Protections
In a paper presented at the 2014 Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, researchers offered innovative options to improve the security of two-factor authentication systems while also ensuring the systems’ usability.
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UAB Art Students Paint Bay of Pigs Memorial
University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Art and Art History students are part of a big historical art project — so big, it is held inside an airplane hangar.
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Startup Co-Founded by Warner named on Inc's Best Industry Startups list
Malcovery Security, a startup co-founded by UAB researcher and Center member Gary Warner, has been named on Inc.'s 2014 Best Industry Startup list.
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UAB Writing Students Help Youngsters Publish a Book
Sixteen University of Alabama at Birmingham writing students are helping 100 third- and fourth-grade students at Inglenook Elementary School publish their first book.
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Urinetown: Theatre UAB Presents Big, Irreverent, Clean Musical
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre will present the musical “Urinetown” April 9-13, with shows at 7:30 p.m. nightly April 9-12 and a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in the Sirote Theatre at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
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Speaker: David Wasserstein on “How Islam Saved the Jews”
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. David J. Wasserstein, Eugene Greener Jr. Professor of Jewish History at Vanderbilt University, titled “How Islam Saved the Jews.” The event is cosponsored by the Department of History and the Birmingham Islamic Society.
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Expo Highlights Undergraduate Scholarship
The seventh annual UAB Expo: An Exposition of Undergraduate Scholarship will showcase research and scholarly work by University of Alabama at Birmingham undergraduate students across all academic disciplines and departments.
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Going Deep: UAB Biology’s Antarctica Team
For most of us, Antarctica is a story of ice. But for UAB Biology, the story is about what happens beneath the icy surface.
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UAB Faculty, Students Create Free Cancer App for Jefferson and Surrounding Counties
A team of University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty and CIS students have created a free, downloadable smartphone application to help health care providers and cancer patients identify more than 500 valuable community resources for people in North Central Alabama battling cancer.
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New Summer Class: Money and Capitalism
This class, taught by Dr. Glenn Feldman, will cover various economic ideas from the ancient Greeks and Romans; through the early church fathers and medieval thought; through Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and the classical economists; upward to Keynes; and finally to Hayek, Milton Friedman, and recent supply-side and neoliberal fashions.
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2014 Interdisciplinary Innovation Forum: “Mathematical Biology”
The upcoming Interdisciplinary Innovation Forum explores Mathematical Biology and features four speakers who will highlight advances in the field, which could determine the future of medicine for generations.
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