Arts & Sciences Magazine
Spring Semester Brings New Achievements
Students across the College of Arts and Sciences received awards and were recognized for their achievements during the Spring 2015 semester.
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Update: Bioethics Bowl Team Wins National Championship
In April of this year, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Intercollegiate Bioethics Bowl team defeated six teams to win the 2015 Bioethics Bowl.
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Senior Nole Jones Reaches National Semi-Finals
Nole Jones has sung his way to the top. The baritone, one of only 14 men in the country to make the semi-final round, competed at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) National Student Auditions.
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Students, Faculty and Alumni Show at Sidewalk Film Festival
Films by UAB students, faculty, and alumni shown at the 17th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham include “The Pursuit of Hippo-ness,” “Feral,” “Coming and Going,” “4th Down,” “10-4 Birmingham,” and “Seizing the Unrecorded.”
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Two Students Win William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship
Rebecca Hyde, a junior international studies major, and Elora Robbani, a senior philosophy major, were recently awarded the William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship.
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Undergraduate Chosen as NASA Space Grant Scholar
The Alabama Space Grant Consortium, a center of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) housed at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has chosen computer and information sciences major Ryan McConn as one of their 2015 Space Grant Scholars.
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Bangalore Receives Funding to Strengthen UAB Computing
Dr. Purushotham Bangalore, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Collaborative Computing Laboratory (CLL), has been awarded nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project on a high-speed campus research network.
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UAB Launches State Network for Women
Dr. Wendy Gunther-Canada, Chair of the Department of Government, is one of several UAB faculty members and administrators who have established the new Alabama Network for Women in Higher Education.
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First-Ever QM Certification
Dr. Malinda Blair O’Leary, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, has become the first arts and sciences professor to have a course certified by Quality Matters, an international program that provides standards for online learning.
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Dr. Robert Sorge Named Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
Robert Sorge, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, was named one of seven Rita Allen Foundation Scholars for 2015.
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Tyna Adams Honored by National Advising Association
CAS Advisor Tyna Adams, who supports biology students, was named Outstanding New Advisor Award from the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) at their summer conference.
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UAB Chosen as Site of New NIH Center for Aging Research
UAB has been named one of only six Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging.
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Three Chairs Named ICFAD Fellows
Department of Theatre Chair Kelly Dean Allison, Department of Music Chair Patrick Evans, and Department of Art and Art History Chair Lauren Lake have been chosen as fellows for the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD).
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Faculty Presenting at Annual Haddin Arts & Sciences Forum
The 2015-2016 Haddin Lecture Series will feature a number of arts and sciences faculty members. All lectures will be given in Heritage Hall Room 121.
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Excellence in Business: Alumni Are Recognized for their Corporate Accomplishments
In March, the College of Arts and Sciences celebrated our nine graduates who were honored at the UAB National Alumni Society’s Excellence in Business Top 25 event.
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Home Movies: Film Studies Alums Are Telling Powerful Stories
Media Studies Program Director Michele Forman on how her students inspire her with their films, work that has been recognized and awarded in many ways.
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So Much to Celebrate!
From art exhibitions by Bachelor of Fine Arts students to Department of Theatre performances, from Homecoming to recognition of alumni and student awards, fall was a busy time in the College.
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Gaining on Pain
Three faculty members in the Department of Psychology — Dr. Burel Goodin, Dr. Robert Sorge and Dr. Jarred Younger — are getting ahead in the race to end chronic pain.
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