Jim Bakken
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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.
The School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences now will share neurobiology faculty and resources.
The second annual symposium features undergraduate and graduate presentations.
"The House I Live In" won the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Documentary.
The annual event features students from the school’s five departments performing skits and conducting interactive experiments.
Brown-Nagin's book on activism won several major nonfiction prizes in 2012.
Nelson received a USA Artists Award in 2009 and the 2003 Rea Award for Short Fiction, as well as NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships.
Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns provides non-medical social services for healthy living and better pregnancy outcomes for Medicaid, CHIP-eligible patients.