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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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News Update 2013
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2012
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2011
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2010
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2009
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2008
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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News Update 2007
News updates from the Department of Mathematics.
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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 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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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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In the News: History Professor Discusses the Beatles with CNN
Department of History professor André Millard thinks the 1960s supergroup the Beatles would not have made it big if they had formed in the age of the Internet.
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UAB’s Walking Bus Initiative Published in Journal
The first paper associated with UAB’s walking bus project was published in the Open Journal of Preventive Medicine. Co-authors Adrienne Milner, Ph.D., teaching assistant professor of sociology, and her colleague Assistant Professor Elizabeth Baker, Ph.D., led the campus effort.
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Come to the 2014 Graduate History Forum
UAB’s Graduate History Forum will take place on March 7 and 8, 2014. The keynote lecture will be given by Dr. Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Professor of History at Louisiana State University and author of Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia.
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Interdisciplinary UAB Researchers Collaborate to Establish New Imaging Method
An interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently established a research method that has expanded the institution’s already robust capacity for discovery, addressing a need that will aid in critical initiatives addressing a variety of diseases including cancer, chronic inflammatory autoimmune diseases and age-related degenerative diseases.
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UAB Faculty Mentor, Student Leader to Attend a2ru Emerging Creatives Conference
University of Alabama at Birmingham Assistant Professor of Art Doug Barrett, MFA, and senior Betsy Cates, who is majoring in studio art graphic design, have been chosen to attend the a2ru Emerging Creatives Student Conference from Thursday, Jan. 30, through Saturday, Feb. 1, at Stanford University.
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UAB Researcher, Entrepreneur Among Top 10 influencers in Banking Information Security
BankInfo Security has named University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Gary Warner one of the Top 10 influencers in banking information security.
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The College Welcomes New Director of Development
The College of Arts and Sciences is excited to announce the appointment of Randall Ledkins as the new Senior Director of Development.
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The College Welcomes New Communications Director
The College of Arts and Sciences is delighted to announce Julie Keith as its new Communications Director.
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UAB’s New Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts Opens to the Public
The University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences will open its new Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts to the public Thursday, Jan. 16.
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