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UAB Students Use Performance, Interactivity and Alternative Materials to Create Art for One-night-only Exhibition Aug. 5
Sculptural objects, masks, puppets, performances and art installations created by Department of Art and Art History students will be shown in a one-night-only exhibition.
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Learning Behind Bars: Students Take Part in Solutions for Prison Overcrowding
What’s the cure for America’s overcrowded prisons? UAB criminal justice students went behind bars and into courtrooms to explore promising solutions. Discover what they experienced while working with inmate mothers and military veterans receiving a second chance — and learn how the projects changed both attitudes and career goals.
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UAB Gospel Choir Member Shares Her Experience as a Volunteer in Uganda
Halli Williamson of Oneonta, a business and music student, is working with children in need and their families as an intern with Sozo Children this summer.
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Office of Undergraduate Research Summer EXPO to be Held July 24
UAB's Office of Undergraduate Research will host nearly 200 student presentations during its Summer Expo on Friday, July 24.
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UAB Students to Show Photographic Exhibition in Shelby County
UAB photography students have taken their work on the road and will open an exhibition, “Accidental Grace: Photographs Made in and About the South” on Friday, June 26, at the Shelby County Arts Council Gallery in Columbiana.
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UAB’s Nole Jones to Compete in Musical Theater Nationally July 7
Rising UAB senior and music and theatre major Nole Jones will compete at the National Association of Teachers of Singing National Student Auditions in Greensboro, North Carolina, on July 7.
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Aleksandra Kasman Wins National High Point University Piano Competition
University of Alabama at Birmingham student Aleksandra Kasman won the inaugural High Point University 2015 Piano Competition on Saturday, June 6.
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Fourteen Students Named to UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences Fellows Program
A group of UAB’s incoming doctoral students have been selected as recipients of the UAB Graduate Fellow in the Arts and Sciences award.
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Two Social Work Students Receive Department Awards
Christa Mojica was named the 2015 Outstanding Social Work Student of the Year and Lee Allen was named the recipient of the 2015 Noman Eggleston Student Award.
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UAB Music Technology Majors Complete AVID Pro Tools Training, Certification
Eight music technology students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have successfully passed the AVID Pro Tools certification exam.
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UAB Biology Graduate Student Awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship
UAB Department of Biology graduate student Mary Latimer was recently awarded the 2015-2016 STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship.
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Aleksandra Kasman Wins National Music Club Auditions
Aleksandra Kasman is a winner in the National Federation of Music Clubs Student/Collegiate Auditions. Kasman, of Vestavia Hills, is a junior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is majoring in music in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Music and is in the UAB Honors College’s University Honors Program.
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Honors Abound for Graduating Students at UAB
Earning a college degree is one of the defining moments of accomplishment in life. For some among the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s graduating class this spring, that success was sweetened with the added honors of awards, fellowships and scholarships.
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Mother and Daughter Set to Graduate Together at UAB
Shannon Cheryl Woods and her mom Kirsten Woods will both graduate with degrees from UAB on April 25. Kirsten is graduating with a degree from the UAB College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology
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Look for “the Rock People” in the Emergency Department, Operating Room and ICU
UAB undergraduate Paige Farley is one of the "rock people.” That’s the nickname from University Hospital doctors, nurses and staffers as Farley roams the teeming medical center wearing black scrubs with the monogram “ROC, Alabama Resuscitation Center.”
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Students, Faculty Recognized at Justice Sciences Honors and Awards Luncheon
The Department of Justice Sciences recognized its outstanding students at the department's 2014-2015 Honors and Awards Luncheon on April 22.
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UAB Recognizes Largest Honors Group Ever for Securing National, International Fellowships
Fifty-one students were recognized for being named finalists or winners of national and international fellowships.
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Physics-Chemistry Major Luke McClintock Named 2015 Goldwater Scholar
UAB physics and chemistry major Luke McClintock has been named a 2015 Goldwater Scholar.
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UAB Physics Department Annual Awards Day - 2015
UAB Physics undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff all gathered for the department’s Annual Awards Day on April 17, 2015.
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Grad Student Ustun Sunay Awarded 2015 NREIP Internship
Graduate student Ustun Sunay was awarded a 10-week summer internship sponsored by the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program.
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