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  • This leadership book is for people too busy for leadership books
    David Rogers, M.D., chief wellness officer for UAB Medicine, wrote “Frontline Healthcare Leadership” for employees in challenging, high-stress jobs. Its insights can help any Blazer contribute to making UAB an even better place to work, be healed and learn.
  • Study highlights changing impact of teen childbirth on women’s education across generations
    A new UAB study sheds light on how changes in sociohistorical contexts impact the role of teen births on attainment of higher education.
  • 11 faculty elevated to Distinguished, University professorships
    The UA System Board of Trustees awarded the rank of Distinguished Professor to Robert Brunner, Yogesh Dwivedi, Helen Krontiras, Cora Elizabeth Lewis, David M. Morris and Michele H. Nichols and the rank of University Professor to Marie Bakitas, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Verna Keith, Michael Neiderweis and David Vance during its meeting in April 2024.
  • Toast the success of businesses owned or managed by UAB graduates on June 13
    The UAB Excellence in Business Top 25 program, presented by the UAB National Alumni Society, each year recognizes the fastest-growing and most successful businesses owned or managed by UAB graduates.
  • Seven students receive 2024 Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate Students
    Throughout the Spring 2024 semester, departments across the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences submitted nominations for the Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Undergraduate Students and Outstanding Graduate Students. The awards are given to exceptional undergraduate and graduate students in CAS who have made significant contributions to the UAB community.
  • New study highlights pandemic effects on mental health of parents juggling unemployment and having children in remote school
    A new study from UAB provides clarity on how the pandemic mattered for the mental health of parents with school-age children.
  • Medical sociology program gives students an expansive approach to health care
    In the world of medicine, treating the body and treating the person can be two distinctly different things. The medical sociology program in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Sociology is a way to bridge that gap.
  • UAB sociologist nationally recognized for health equity research
    As part of the HESP cohort, Miller aims to enhance community engagement, communicate research findings and foster relationships with peers while focusing on policy determinants of health, particularly in the context of sexual and gender minorities and racial health inequities.
  • Keith serves as co-editor for special issue of top-tier journal
  • UAB among top five schools in the nation with 15 students representing at Clinton Global Initiative University
    As part of the CGI U, students developed initiatives focused on health, education, poverty, environment, human rights, poverty alleviation and public health, impacting local and global communities.
  • College of Arts and Sciences announces grant recipients
    The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences offers faculty a range of awards and grant opportunities to advance their research and scholarship and recognize their achievements.
  • Department of Sociology receives generous gift from Dr. Mike Wilson
    Michele “Mike” Wilson, Ph.D., was an award-winning faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Sociology and launched the Women’s Studies Program.
  • New research sheds light on patient mistreatment toward health care workers
    This is the first study to examine mistreatment from patients across the entire clinical team and to examine the experience of gender and sexual minorities.
  • New research identifies complex contributors to obesity-related health disparities
    UAB experts highlight the social determinants of obesity and add to the growing body of evidence identifying potential solutions to address obesity and related conditions.
  • Study shows greater increase in depression and anxiety in minorities during the pandemic
    While the mental health of many Americans worsened during the pandemic, a recent UAB study found the increase in depression and anxiety symptoms was greatest within Black, Hispanic and Asian communities.
  • Four faculty share the stories behind their development grants
    A civil rights field experience, safer MRI scans, investigating college stress and implementing a massive genetic test for cancer: Recipients of 2022 Faculty Development Grant Program awards explain how they will use their funds.
  • 22 faculty receive grants to fund developmental projects at UAB
    The grant program funds early-career faculty to advance their skills and careers across campus and beyond.
  • 22 faculty receive grants to fund developmental projects
    The UAB Faculty Development Grant Program supports junior faculty with funding to pursue research, creative works and scholarly activity.
  • How the COVID-19 pandemic changed society
    COVID-19 changed the way we communicate, care for others, educate our children, work and more. Experts from UAB weigh in on these changes.
  • Seven students receive 2022 Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate Students
    Each academic year, the UAB College of Arts and Sciences receives departmental nominations for the Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Undergraduate Students and Outstanding Graduate Students.

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