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Moore Selected for Competitive American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
The fellowship will help further the completion of the first study, bilingual edition of a centuries old legal case.
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Davis Elected to Labor History Association Leadership
Colin Davis, chair of the Department of History, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Labor and Working Class History Association.
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UAB Psychology Professor Given Early Career Award for Pain Scholarship
Zina Trost, Ph.D., has been selected to receive the 2016 John C. Liebeskind Early Career Scholar Award from the American Pain Society.
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UAB DAAH Chair Recognized for DSS Accommodation
Lauren Lake, Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, was chosen by the Disability Support Services (DSS) staff as the recipient of the Fall 2015 DSS Staff Recognition Award.
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Chemistry Professor Selected for Exam Committee
Dr. Jacqueline Nikles, associate professor and coordinator of undergraduate organic chemistry, has appointed a member of the American Chemical Society Examinations Committee, which will write a new standardized ACS Organic Chemistry exam for 2017.
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German Professor Earns National Recognition
Dr. Erika Hille Rinker, assistant professor of German, is one of the 2015 recipients of the American Association of Teachers of German/Goethe-Institut Certificate of Merit for outstanding achievement in furthering the teaching of German in American schools.
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UAB Biologists Cheering on Blazers from Antarctica
UAB biologists Dr. Chuck Amsler and Maggie Amsler are cheering on the UAB men's basketball team in the Conference USA tournament today all the way from Antarctica.
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2016 TED Prize Winner, Space Archaeologist Dr. Sarah Parcak, Uses $1 Million Award to Ignite Army of Global Explorers
UAB’s Parcak will use wish to create an online, interactive citizen science platform.
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UAB Psychology Professor Given Early Career Award
Despina Stavrinos, Ph.D., has been selected to receive the Routh Early Career Award from the Society of Pediatric Psychology.
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Algae Species Named for UAB Biology Professor
An algae species from Antarctica previously known as Delesseria lancifolia will now be called Paraglossum amsleri (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) in honor of UAB Biology Professor Dr. Charles Amsler.
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2016 TED Prize Wish Reveal to be Streamed Live at Hill Student Center
Egyptologist and UAB associate professor Sarah Parcak, Ph.D., will reveal her $1 million wish live from the TED stage in Vancouver on Feb. 16. The event will be streamed live for the Birmingham community.
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Ling Ma Receives 2016 Alabama Educator of Excellence Award from Alabama World Language Association
Ling Ma was honored at the annual conference of the Alabama World Language Association at Troy University, Troy Alabama.
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John Maddox Selected for the AATSP Member Spotlight
Maddox: "Learning Spanish and Portuguese has given me a special sense of freedom. I grew up in a mostly monolingual community in rural Georgia, but ever sense I took Jane 'Juana' Futral’s Spanish 1 class at Wheeler County High School, I knew I wanted to be a language teacher."
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Making a Case for Human Values in Data-driven Democracies
In a new book, government professor Akhlaque Haque, Ph.D., explains how Big Data, social media and other digital innovations can create more responsive, responsible public administration.
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Professor Larry Powell Discusses the Topic of Media Bias in Republican Debates
We asked UAB Department of Communication Studies Professor Dr. Larry Powell to weigh in on the effectiveness of this fall's Republican debates, how they have been moderated, and whether the candidates’ accusations of media bias are merited.
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UAB Professor to Conduct First Comprehensive Study of Centuries-old Legal Case
John K. Moore Jr., Ph.D., an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a research fellowship from the Institute for Pilgrimage Studies at the College of William & Mary.
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New Publication, "El mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo"
Professor Lourdes Sánchez-López published a new book, El mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo: historia, política, sociedades y culturas (Routledge, 2016) with co-author Professor Clara Mojica-Díaz (Tennessee State University).
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UAB’s Yakov Kasman to Perform as Soloist with Russian Orchestra
Kasman, professor of piano, will be a soloist with Saratov Philharmonic Orchestra in the performance of Nikolai Medtner’s Piano Concerto No. 2 op. 50 on Sunday, Dec. 6.
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Government Professor Connects Information Technology and Public Administration
In Department of Government Professor Dr. Akhlaque Haque's new book “Surveillance, Transparency, & Democracy: Public Administration in the Information Age,” he explores how information technology can influence decision making by public policy leaders.
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UAB’s Sarah Parcak Named 2016 TED Prize Winner
Joining the likes of Bono and Bill Clinton, UAB space archaeologist Sarah Parcak — often called the real-life Indiana Jones — will receive $1 million and help from the TED network to make her world-changing wish come true. What will her wish be?
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