Announcements
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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Speaker: Ralph Kingston on 19th-Century French Exploration
Please join us for a talk by Ralph Kingston, Associate Professor and History Department Graduate Program Officer of Auburn University's History Department.
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Fabric Artist to Install Large-scale Works at UAB with Help from Community
Fabric and installation artist Amanda Browder will enlist the help of the community for two giant fabric installations at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to celebrate the university’s new cultural corridor.
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UAB Study Aims High-tech Mapping at Violence in Mexico
Chris Kyle, Ph.D., a University of Alabama at Birmingham associate professor of anthropology has been awarded a $40,000 research grant from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. The foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression and dominance.
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Physics Graduate School Open House
Undergraduate students from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Southeastern Louisiana University, Western Kentucky University and Birmingham Southern College came to learn more about the Physics Graduate Program and the research accomplishments of our faculty.
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Witness to History: Student Film Preserves a Unique Birmingham Story
Clarence Lockett started out as a theatre student focusing on screenwriting. But it was a true-life story that pulled him into filmmaking and changed his college and career goals.
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