Events
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The UAB Graduate School and Graduate Student Government will be hosting “Cookies, Cocoa and Community” on Thursday, January 10, 2019. This fun and casual event serves as a kick-off to a month-long Collection Drive for the Ronald McDonald House. It is also one of several events that are part of UAB’s Community Month.
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The Graduate School hosted its 3MT Semifinals Tuesday, October 9, at the Hill Student Center. There were 26 semifinalists and 10 of those will advance to the 3MT Finals next week for one last chance to win $1,000 and a spot in the Regional Competition.
Read More: 2018 3MT Finalists Congratulations to the 2018 3MT Finalists
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More than 50 doctoral students participated in the 2018 3 Minute Thesis preliminary competition October 2 in the Hill Student Center, and more than half of those students will advance to the semi-finals next week.
Read More: 2018 3MT Semifinalists Congratulations to the 2018 3MT Semifinalists
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UAB Center for Exercise Medicine (UCEM) will host its 6th Annual Symposium on Sept. 21 at the Hill Student Center Ballroom. As a pre-symposium event, the center will conduct a Science Communication Workshop on Sept. 20 at the Hill Student Center Theater. The symposium will feature keynote speakers Dr. Alex Hutchinson, physicist, author and journalist from Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Fabrisia Ambrosio, Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh and Director of Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center International. It will also feature UAB experts from various fields.
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UAB Graduate School and the Graduate Student Government is hosting a Fall Graduate Resource Fair and Ice Cream Social on Wednesday, Aug. 29.
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The UAB Graduate School will hold its Graduate Program Summer Recruitment Fair on Friday, July 6. Event attendees will have an opportunity to learn more about UAB's 55 masters and 40 doctoral programs and ask questions of program representatives. There will also be some fun giveaways.
Read More: Summer Recruitment Fair Graduate Program Summer Recruitment Fair Slated for July
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To jump start the 2017-2018 school year, the Graduate Biomedical Sciences (GBS) Program held the annual Graduate Student Research Symposium at the Hill Center on Friday, August 4th. This event was hosted by (GBS) in collaboration with Graduate Biomedical Student Outreach (GBSO) and UAB Graduate School.
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We think UAB postdocs rock, and we're showing it with a week full of fun and informative events September 18-22. The 2017 Postdoc Appreciation Week events are planned and sponsored by the UAB Postdoctoral Association and Office of Postdoctoral Education. Mark your calendars for these activities!
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Interested in Graduate education? Join the UAB Graduate School for the Fall 2017 Graduate Program Recruitment Fair. You will have the chance to network with faculty and staff from programs across the UAB campus.
Read More: Graduate Program Recruitment Fair Graduate Program Recruitment Fair September 22nd
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UAB Graduate School invites you to have a bowl of delicious ice cream on us!
Join us in the Hill Student Center Ballrooms, on Friday, September 1st between 2 and 4 p.m. for an ice cream social. All graduate-level students are welcome.
Read More: Ice Cream Social Ice Cream Social for Grad Students is September 1
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Have you heard the news? The University of Alabama at Birmingham will participate for the second time in the Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®). If you're interested in participating or learning more about the competition, you are encouraged to attend an informational meeting on Wednesday, August 30 from 2 to 3 p.m. in Shelby Building Room 105.
Read More: 2017 3MT Semifinalists 3MT® Informational Meeting is August 30
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UAB Graduate School and the Office of Postdoctoral Education will celebrate two important occasions in one special week this spring. Join us at the events throughout the week of April 3-7, 2017 for UAB’s 3rd annual Mentoring Week as well as national Graduate Student Appreciation Week.