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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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Jeanette Kohl to Keynote UAB/UA Art History Symposium
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Art and Art History will host the Art History Master of Arts Symposium, an annual daylong symposium shared with the University of Alabama, on Friday, March 7, at the UAB Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.
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UAB to Host Several Summer Writing Camps for Kids
The Red Mountain Writing Project will host several camps this summer for children from middle to high school.
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The College Welcomes First Curator for AEIVA
The College of Arts and Sciences is delighted to announce that John Fields has accepted the position of Curator for the Abroms//Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA).
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NBC13 Investigates: All About You
“We pay our bills online, shop online even reconnect with long lost friends on the web. With all that information floating around out there, have you ever wondered how much someone could find out about you? You might be surprised as we found out when Alabama’s 13 Investigates: All About You.”
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UAB Painting Students Compete in Fundraiser to Provide School Art Supplies
Students in University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor of Painting Gary Chapman's intermediate painting class will participate with 80 other artists in Salvador's Deli, an event at the Birmingham Museum of Art on March 2. The event will feature live music, local brews and food, and will showcase artwork made from food items created by local artists and art students.
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Brain Research Tracks Internet Safety Performance, Dispels Assumptions, Identifies Traits of those At-risk
New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that users pay more attention to Internet safety than previously assumed.
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UAB Research Improves Ease and Security of Password Protections
Passwords guard everything from our cellphones to our bank accounts, but they often present a relatively weak challenge to hackers looking for the information that passwords should protect. New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in collaboration with the University of California at Irvine, proposes and tests a variety of methods that add a strong second layer of security to a password.
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UAB Presents 38th Juried Student Exhibition with Juror George Ferrandi
Artist George Ferrandi is the juror for this year’s University of Alabama at Birmingham Juried Student Exhibition, presented by the Department of Art and Art History.
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UAB Research Improves Ease and Security of Password Protections
Passwords guard everything from our cellphones to our bank accounts, but they often present a relatively weak challenge to hackers looking for the information that passwords should protect. New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in collaboration with the University of California at Irvine, proposes and tests a variety of methods that add a strong second layer of security to a password.
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UAB Announces a New Program that Will Increase STEM Teachers in Alabama
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is one of five research universities awarded a grant to implement a program that will increase the number of highly trained secondary science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, teachers in the classroom.
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