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UAB Dentistry Cares helps raise awareness of the increasing difficulty that low-income adults face in accessing critical dental services.
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education recognizes UAB for its Water Reuse and Recovery Program.
UAB works to address record growth with plans to enhance parking and transportation following a comprehensive study and expert recommendations for strategic focus and investments.
Orthopaedics at UAB has been elevated to a full department within the School of Medicine from its previous division status.
UAB Hospital will honor veterans with a ceremony hosted by the hospital’s new affinity group, Veterans, Active Military, Family and Friends.
The UAB Institute for Human Rights will hold three events focused on current political climates in various nations in November, all free and open to the public.
Vishwadha Gunda, a sophomore majoring in public health, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship, and also won the Talent award for her Bollywood-style dance performance.
The UAB Ethics Bowl debate team beat 16 teams in the Southeast Regional Ethics Bowl to advance to the national competition.
Sophomore Mira Walker will represent Alabama in the Southern Division MTNA Competition in January. Fellow piano students Eamon Griffith and Jacob Skiles won honorable mentions.
The new 12,800-square-foot facility will include classrooms, offices, an auditorium, storm shelter, supply space, lounges, locker rooms, a gym, and an engagement skills trainer room for simulated combat.
An improbable ending to UAB Football’s Homecoming game was the media highlight, but it was the families the team was playing for who gave it extra meaning.
UAB remains among the lowest in incidents of many crimes, and overall compares favorably to urban and non-urban universities in safety. Recent satisfaction survey results show students’ feelings of safety have increased.
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The service will begin at 1 p.m. with the posting of colors by UAB’s ROTC.
UAB Veterans Services hosts Annual Wreath-Laying Ceremony Nov. 10
Birmingham Poetry Review has been nominated for a 2018 Small Press Publisher Award.
The series focuses on the history of Birmingham high schools and their ties to UAB. The Nov. 6 program will include a screening of the student-produced Ramsay mini-documentary, with a feedback discussion.
CHAAMPS exists to develop, implement and evaluate interventions to improve African-American men’s health through research, outreach and training.
UAB Hospital houses a 21-bed cardiac care unit specializing in procedures such as heart transplants and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation.
UAB will break ground on a freestanding emergency department and medical office building in Gardendale.
Colleen Anusiewicz, R.N., and Jessica Corcoran, MSN, will each receive $75,000 in RWJF funding over the next three years and a dollar-for-dollar match from the school to pursue their doctoral studies.
A round-trip bus ride and ticket to the UAB vs. Southern Miss game are $65, or $30 for riders who already have a ticket.
The 2017 Peace and Justice Studies Association conference will bring activists, scholars and educators from around the world to UAB.
The ESFA was founded in 1997 after the sale of the Callahan Eye Hospital to UAB, and has a mission of awarding grants to nonprofits conducting vision research, education and patient care.
UAB Hospital has received a 2017 Women’s Choice Award for being one of America’s Best Breast Centers in the United States.
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center and McWane Science Center provide lessons that are benefiting young children, their families and communities in Norwood and Woodlawn through this program, funded by the PNC Foundation.
Students and a professor from the Department of Art and Art History will join students and faculty from Iowa State University to collaboratively install and present artworks.
UAB’s annual Gift of Sight program provides free eye care to underinsured Birmingham residents for the holiday season.
Leaders in HIV research and treatment gather at UAB to address laws that prohibit gay men from donating blood.
On Oct. 20 at the Commons on the Green, contribute $5 to help provide a meal for a UAB student. More than 900 meal vouchers were collected and distributed through the Donor to Diner initiative last school year.
An informal suit exchange has transformed into an official fundraising campaign to give students in need professional clothes for career fairs and job interviews.