Jim Bakken
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Chief Communications Officer, Public Relations
As chief communications officer for the University of Alabama at Birmingham and UAB Medicine, Bakken leads teams that set and execute internal and external communications strategy. Prior to joining UAB in 2012, Bakken spent a decade working with a diverse client base at two full-service communications firms. Bakken spent eight years in Nashville at McNeely Pigott and Fox – one of the largest PR firms in the Southeast – prior to launching Peritus Public Relations in Birmingham in 2010. Bakken has served on the board of the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America and has been a Birmingham Business Journal Top 40 Under 40 honoree.
UAB science and technology students take the lead in hosting a regional science competition to showcase the campus, its programs and labs.
Weight-room manager Joe Henry is running 500 miles to raise $100,000 — and awareness for Universities Fighting World Hunger.
UAB President Carol Z. Garrison recently honored six UAB community leaders during the 2011 President's Awards for Diversity.
Yehia Massoud, Ph.D., will focus on interdisciplinary research, including the development of novel solutions for health-care problems.
Researchers in the School of Engineering have created a more effective way to grow human cells and tissue in the laboratory.
