How did we start the year? With the kindness of strangers, compassion for others, commitment to improvement and cuddly cuteness. See it all in one video. Catch up in about a minute.
INTO UAB Adviser Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell is working to improve education for young girls in her native Sri Lanka and be a catalyst for cultural and social change.
What did you miss? Santa swooped in to pick up a ton of toys for tots, and Employee of the Year Pam Alverson clearly tops the Nice list. Still ahead: Say bye to Blazers bound for the Bahama Bowl and hello to a new way to treat cancer. It's all in one video. Catch up in about a minute.
What's new at UAB this week? Two coaches cast a long shadow on campus, physicists work to improve on perfection and UAB artist-in-residence Eric Essix literally took all his jazz hands for a ride around town. See it all in one video. Catch up in about a minute.
UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Patient Care Connect Program received a distinguished Innovator Award from the Association of Community Cancer Centers for providing stellar cancer care with cost savings.
More than 1,500 students will graduate this fall, including 83 who will receive the university’s highest degrees. An estimated 700 will walk in the commencement ceremony.
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The yearlong ACDD project will train more than 200 USAF security forces and first responders to recognize and respond to people with autism or other developmental disabilities.
John Paul Jones Hospital, a 60-year veteran health care facility in Camden, Alabama, is in talks with the UAB Health System regarding a management agreement.
UAB has a new, quick way to learn about what’s happening on campus. Watch "UAB This Week" every Friday morning for the latest stories you need to know.
We interact with the working poor — the 8.6 million Americans with incomes below the federal poverty level — daily without knowing it. But some businesses target them with predatory practices. A group of UAB students took action to help, and the one-on-one encounters shattered their stereotypes.
More than 675 university workers aided in the construction of Tiffany Wells’ new home, which was funded entirely by UAB employees through its Benevolent Fund.
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