Faculty Excellence
UAB Art History Professor Pens Book on Indian Temple's Iconography
The first book by University of Alabama at Birmingham Associate Professor of Art History Cathleen Cummings, M.A., Ph.D., “Decoding a Hindu Temple: Royalty and Religion in the Iconographic Program of the Virupaksha Temple, Pattadakal,” has been published.
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New Directors Announced for UAB Cyber Center
John Sloan, Ph.D., has been named the new director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s UAB Center for Cyber Security. Puri Bangalore, Ph.D., will assume Sloan’s former position of assistant director of the UAB Center for Cyber Security.
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Dr. Solorio Wins GHC Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award
UAB Computer and Information Sciences assistant professor Thamar Solorio has been named the winner of the Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award. The award recognizes a junior faculty member for high-quality research and significant positive impact on diversity.
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Earwood Works to Expand Service-Learning
During the past year, 11 faculty have worked together to create new service-learning courses or to integrate components in existing courses. Martha Earwood of Justice Sciences is one of them.
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Liber Lends Ukraine Expertise to Local News
Professor George Liber's expertise in Soviet, post-Soviet, and East European history has been in demand by local news media ever since the crisis in Ukraine began in February 2014.
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John Maddox, Krista Chambless First Time Attendee Stipend Winners
John Maddox and Krista Chambless were awarded the First Time Attendee Stipend at the AATSP Conference in Panama.
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Top National Security Agencies Recognize UAB’s Cybercrime Research
For the second year in a row, the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have designated the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a UAB Center for Cyber Security.
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How Advising Helped UAB Professor See the Struggles of Others
Alison Chapman read the email twice before it sank in that she had received the National Academic Advising Association’s award for outstanding faculty advising.
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Theatre Chair Named to Alabama School of Fine Arts Board
Kelly Allison, chair of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre, has been invited to join the Alabama School of Fine Arts Board of Trustees.
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UAB Professor Recognized Internationally for Online Activism
The BanglaBraille project developed by University of Alabama at Birmingham Assistant Professor Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., took home the prestigious Jury Award and the People’s Choice Award from German International Radio’s Best of Blogs and Online Activism Awards.
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Amy Morgan Named First UABTeach Master Teacher
Amy Morgan, Ph.D., has been named the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s first master teacher for UABTeach, a program designed to nurture and train a new teaching force of highly qualified instructors in STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering, and math.
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UAB Professor Named a Top NerdScholar
Sarah Parcak, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology, has been named to NerdScholar’s inaugural class of “40 Under 40: Professors Who Inspire.” NerdScholar celebrates professors who are cultivating passion in their students and inspiring them to be the world leaders and humanitarians of tomorrow.
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Education Anywhere: Online Courses Built for the Realities of the Developing World
The Internet has opened up a world of educational opportunity for billions of people. But you need more than a web browser to take advantage of the Information Revolution.
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Recent Mathematics Publications
Two articles published by faculty in the Department of Mathematics have garnered recognition in their fields.
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Congratulations to our Faculty!
It is with great pleasure we celebrate the awards that our colleagues have won this semester: Raymond Mohl, Carolyn Conley, Glenn Feldman, and Andrew Demshuk.
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UAB Professor Noted for Outstanding Academic Advising
Alison Chapman, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of English, has been awarded the Outstanding Advising Award — Faculty Academic Advising by the National Academic Advising Association.
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Feldman's Book Receives Critical Acclaim
Glenn Feldman received the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Book Prize from the University of Alabama Press for his book The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865-1944.
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UAB Professor Receives Award to Compare History, Memory
Andrew Demshuk, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, has received a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award that will enable him to pursue a comparative history of post-1945 reconstruction and urban planning in three cities divided by Cold War borders — Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, Leipzig, East Germany, and Wrocław, western Poland.
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Preserving the Past: Unearthing the Stories of What Came Before
Pamela Sterne King, an assistant professor of history at UAB and former historic preservation officer for the city of Birmingham, wants students to learn about the city’s "often-forgotten fun personality."
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