Student Achievement
History Student Takes Lessons from the Dead at Oak Hill Cemetery
PhD Student Sonal Singh Hired by Global Foundries
Dr. Sonal Singh has accepted a position at GLOBAL FOUNDRIES (a semiconductor manufacturing company) as a 'Senior Defect Engineer - Technology Development’.
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New Exhibition Shows Works by Graduating BFA Students at AEIVA, April 20-May 1
Works by graduating students from the Department of Art and Art History will be on exhibition from April 20-May 1 in the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.
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UAB Bioethics Bowl Team Claims National Title
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl team defeated six teams to win the 2015 Bioethics Bowl on Saturday, April 11, in Tallahassee, Florida.
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Intellectual Journey: Rhodes Scholar Prepares for Oxford
UAB's newest Rhodes Scholar Ameen Barghi, the third in UAB’s history to win the award and one of 32 U.S. students selected for the prestigious honor for 2015, prepares for Oxford.
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Chances for Change: John Chancellor and the Student Alumni Society
John Chancellor is excited to be part of change at UAB as the newest co-chair of the Student Alumni Society (SAS) and as Mr. UAB 2014.
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EXPO Highlights Undergraduate Scholarship
The eighth annual UAB EXPO: An Exposition of Undergraduate Scholarship will showcase research and scholarly work by University of Alabama at Birmingham undergraduate students across all academic disciplines and departments.
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Bliss Chang Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Study in Germany
Bliss Chang, a senior majoring in biochemistry and biology within the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2015 Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in Germany for a year.
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UABTeach Paves the Way for New STEM Teachers
The University of Alabama at Birmingham UABTeach program is wrapping up a highly successful first year, surpassing enrollment expectations and garnering philanthropic funding.
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Biology Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Corey Cates and Megan Roegner have both been awarded graduate research fellowships by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Julie Schram Named Winner of Barker Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies
Julie Schram has been awarded the 2015 UAB Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies at the Doctoral Level.
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Biology Students Recognized with Awards, Fellowships
Three graduate students from the UAB Department of Biology have been recognized for their excellent scholarship and service: Julie Schram, Corey Cates, and Megan Roegner.
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UAB Music Students Win at Regional Competition, Headed to Nationals
University of Alabama at Birmingham students Nole Jones and Johnathon Lyons won awards at the Southeastern Regional National Association of Teachers of Singing auditions held March 27-28 at Auburn University.
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Ryder Receives Outstanding Woman Undergraduate Student Award
Yoonhee Ryder, a senior in biology and anthropology, has made a name for herself at UAB as a determined high-achiever who has a passion for social justice issues. Now she has been given the Outstanding Woman Undergraduate Student Award.
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UAB Students Curate BMA Exhibition on Photographs of the South
A new show of photographs made in and about the South curated by students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham will open at the Birmingham Museum of Art on Thursday, April 2, for the BMA’s First Thursday event.
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KDDM Lab Member Won Outstanding Presentation Award at AAS 2015
Xinpeng Liao, a Ph.D. student in KDDM Lab, recently won an Outstanding Presentation Award in the paper competition at 92nd annual meeting in Alabama Academy of Science based on the work “Mining Low-duplicate Social Media Images for Criminal Forum Detection.”
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Thesis Defense: Ralph F. ‘Chip’ McSweeney IV
With an abundance of new malware being discovered daily, antivirus software vendors have been forced into an industry of reaction.
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UAB Students Win Two of Nation’s 15 Prestigious UNCF/Merck Scholarships
Nathan Oluwagbemiga Larinde, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and member of the UAB Honors College’s Science and Technology Honors Program, is one of two UAB students selected to receive the UNCF/Merck Science Initiative scholarship.
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