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UAB to Present a Lecture by Robert O’Meally
The UAB Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences will present “We Are All a Collage: Romare Bearden, Toni Morrison, Duke Ellington,” a free lecture by Robert O’Meally, Ph.D., at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in the Hulsey Recital Hall, 950 13th St. South.
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Lunch and Learn: Composition Students Combine Service with Style
UAB freshman Kyle Thompson made a new connection over lunch recently. It was mealtime at the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Unit at UAB Highlands Hospital, and Thompson listened as his companion, a World War II pilot, recalled an aerial adventure.
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Surfing Internet, Crossing Street Will Likely Lead to Wipeout
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) research, published online in the journal Accident Analysis & Prevention, has found that college students crossing the street while surfing the Internet on a cell phone are more than twice as likely to be hit or have a close call as when they crossed the street undistracted.
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Students Find Traces of Meth on Currency in Birmingham
Two University of Alabama at Birmingham students have found traces of methamphetamine on US currency in Birmingham, the first time meth has been identified on $1 bills since a UAB Department of Justice Sciences laboratory began testing currency in 2008.
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Facebook Donates Recovered Money to UAB Cybercrime Group
The Center for Information Assurance and Joint Forensics Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a $250,000 donation from Facebook in recognition of the center’s role in tracking international criminals behind social-media botnet Koobface as well as other spammers.
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NSF to Support the Study of Code-switching in Different Language Pairs
NSF awarded a new grant to Prof. Solorio that will support the creation of annotated corpora to study mixed-language sources.
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Tracking Drug Violence in Guerrero, Mexico
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Blood Meridian: Tracing Malaria’s Epic War with Humanity
New Minor in Spanish for Business
The minor in Spanish for Business consists of four courses (12 credit hours).
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Road Rules: What Happens When the Interstate Comes to Town
Between 1956 and 1972, more than 40,000 miles of high-speed, limited-access highways spread like kudzu across the American landscape—a thriving concrete jungle fertilized by the greenbacks promised in President Dwight Eisenhower's Federal-Aid Highway Act.
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UAB Study: Teens Plugged into Media Nearly 24 Total Hours Daily
A University of Alabama at Birmingham study found adolescents ages 14-15 are engaged in media more than 23 total hours daily.
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Sleepy Teen Pedestrians More Likely to Get Hit, UAB Study Says
A University of Alabama at Birmingham study reveals sleep-deprived adolescents are more likely to be hit by cars while crossing the street than those who are well-rested.
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Safety Patrol
UAB child safety expert David Schwebel has helped call attention to the everyday dangers of crosswalks, swimming pools, and dog bites through a series of intriguing, headline-grabbing experiments.
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Neverending Stories: What Dickens Tells Us at 200
Danny Siegel, a specialist in Victorian literature who has written several academic studies of Dickens’s works, shares his love of Dickens in a graduate seminar at UAB.
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Jemison Visiting Professorship is Just Around the Corner!
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Gary Warner’s Work with FBI to be Featured on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams
Gary Warner, UAB’s director of Research and Computer Forensics, will be featured on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams at 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, 2012, in a story about the FBI Trident Breach case.
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The Tom Sawyer Effect in Computer Security
The security of computer systems often relies on the actions or decisions of the end users. However, users tend to perform poorly at security tasks or fail to comply with security instructions.
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Computing Devices Become Smaller and Cheaper, but Are They Also Less Secure?
Small devices, especially Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, are being ubiquitously deployed in: contactless ATM and credit cards, access cards, e-passports, medical implants and even mobile phones (such as Google Wallet charged with NFC technology), to name a few.
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Professors Thamar Solorio and Ragib Hasan Receive ONR Grant
Profs. Thamar Solorio and Ragib Hasan received a three year award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to support their research on document signatures.
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