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Sights and sounds from UAB students as the fall semester gets underway.
Football isn't the only team returning to Legion Field. Fresh off two years representing UAB across the country and overseas, the Marching Blazers have a new look and a new leader. Director Sean Murray and some band members offer a glimpse of the excitement in store for Blazer fans this fall.
As damage from hurricanes persist, public health, engineering, economic, social work and emergency physicians from UAB are available to discuss implications and moving forward.
Junior Autumne Lee will study abroad in Accra, Ghana, and sophomore Jordan McGill will study in Tokyo, Japan.
The UAB School of Education is offering free English conversation classes for faculty, staff, students, and the Birmingham community.
UAB joins two other Alabama hospitals as part of the Department of Public Health’s serious infectious disease network.
Employer representatives from companies such as BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama, Protective Life Corporation and Regions are serving as adjunct faculty in teaching courses for the program, giving students insight into employers’ needs firsthand.
The deadline for submissions is Oct. 23.
The interdisciplinary approach aims to accelerate clinical innovation by training STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — students and clinicians to collaborate.
Patients, students, faculty and staff joined together at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry to view the 2017 solar eclipse.
The UAB Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center will host its annual symposium in September.
Two UAB alumnae are accepted into the Teaching Assistant Program in France offered by the French embassy in the United States.
For the fourth consecutive year, UAB Medicine has earned “Most Wired” status for use of information technology in improving patient care.
Before he became Nashville’s hottest rising star, Sam Hunt first gained fame as UAB’s quarterback. Now, as he prepares for a sold-out concert kicking off #TheReturn of Blazer football, the 2008 graduate reveals how UAB helped shape his award-winning, chart-topping signature sound.
Kevin Wang of Taiwan joined the UAB School of Health Professions’ biotechnology program as an INTO UAB student in fall 2016, and will receive his master’s degree at commencement Aug. 12.
When Shana White graduates this August with a bright future in nursing, she will add a master’s degree to a growing list of firsts for the Bryant, Alabama, native who is also a first-generation high school graduate.
Early exposure to science, technology and medicine is the start of a path to STEM careers.
Briana Bryant will serve as a liaison for Public Relations Student Society of America chapters in the Southeast region and the organization’s national committee.
A married couple is the first husband-wife team to graduate together from the UAB School of Nursing’s DNP Program.
Meet the team of UAB students working to build a house completely powered by solar energy for the 2017 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition.
The next class of UAB School of Medicine students will receive their traditional white coats at a ceremony Aug. 13.
An enthusiastic teacher and a fascinating topic lit his desire to learn. Now the veteran is building bone scaffolding with a three-dimensional bioprinter.
UAB Hospital continues to be highly ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the No. 1 hospital in Alabama and among the top in the Southeast and nation.
The new program will begin enrolling in fall 2017.
Several area choirs, performers, and testimonies by transplant recipients and donor families will highlight this year’s event.
Undergraduate research opportunity attracts students from across the United States.
An art event will be held Aug. 17 to engage the cancer community in the healing power of art.
The City of Birmingham has secured a $75,000 grant from the National Conference of Mayors to support the UAB-led Innovate Birmingham workforce development initiative.
Nearly 1,400 students will graduate this summer, including 90 who will receive the university’s highest degrees. An estimated 850 will walk in the commencement ceremony.
With one month to go till the return of UAB Football, what’s on the minds of Coach Bill Clark and his Blazers? History, family, and community, to name just a few. Discover how the team is preparing for a season like no other and how its resurgence could benefit all Blazer sports.