Shannon Thomason
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Public Relations Specialist
thomason@uab.edu | (205) 975-8858Identifies and develops stories that highlight the arts, faculty news, student stories and beyond a UAB. Connects media with experts to enhance their story.
Specific beats:
- Advancement
- The Arts at UAB
- AEIVA
- Alys Stephens Center
- Arts in Medicine
- ArtPlay
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Department of Art and Art History
- Department of Communication Studies
- Department of Music
- Department of Theatre
- Institute for Human Rights
- Department of World Languages and Literatures
- The Graduate School
- Libraries
- National Alumni Society
- WBHM
UAB senior Krishna Bhatt has won the Katherine Cooper Cater Fellowship worth $3,000 from Alpha Lambda Delta.
Joseph Olson, a junior in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a scholarship to attend the prestigious Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)-RISE summer internship program.
UAB junior Kimberly Everett is a 2011 Harry S. Truman Scholar, one of just 60 chosen from around the country.
Mallick Hossain of Gadsden has been named a 2011 Goldwater Scholar; three other UAB students named Goldwater Honorable mentions.
Grammy Award-winning pop group The Pointer Sisters will be the stars of the annual Viva Health Starlight Gala benefiting UAB's Alys Stephens Center at 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 1, 2011.
Marlene Johnson, who teaches voice, speech and acting, is the second UAB professor in five years to be honored by the Kennedy Center.