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Live HealthSmart Alabama has partnered with local businesses, organizations and community members to bring vivid and abstract murals to the Kingston and Titusville communities.
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Birmingham-based Protective Life Corporation and its parent company, Tokyo, Japan-based Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc., committed $3.5 million of gifts locally in 2015 when Dai-ichi acquired Protective. The dedication to being part of building a strong community has continued since that time with $25.9 million of community contributions.
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For the 22nd year of this university tradition, 139 UAB volunteers worked with six community partners at 14 sites around Birmingham, including Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Sozo Trading and the Live HealthSmart Alabama community cleanup in Kingston.
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The International Health Promoting Campuses Network is guided by the Okanagan Charter, which calls on postsecondary schools to infuse health into all aspects of campus culture and lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally.
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The Birmingham Health District is an effort to create a healthier area by being smoke-free and walkable.
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Impacting the health and well-being of a community is a cornerstone of UAB’s strategic plan and has been recognized globally by Times Higher Education.
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Gonnerman’s experience includes managing Vanderbilt’s flagship library for the arts and sciences, humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields.
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The smoke-free Health District on Birmingham’s Southside created by a City Council ordinance in October has launched.
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Online programs in education, MBA and business make significant gains in “Best” Online Programs rankings.
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Fouad’s winning UAB Grand Challenge proposal is a comprehensive approach to addressing Alabama’s complex health problems and includes 90 partners on her team from communities, government, business, education and more.
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The Birmingham City Council passed an ordinance on Tuesday, Oct. 15, that establishes a non-smoking Health District on Birmingham’s Southside. Smoking will be prohibited on public property – including city streets and sidewalks within the Heath District.
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“At the core, I don’t want anyone else to lose their father so early in their lifetime. That drove me at the beginning to do the work I do today.”
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Diet matters when it comes to depression. Teens who have a high-sodium, low-potassium diet are at a higher risk of depression.
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Fouad’s winning proposal is a comprehensive approach to fixing Alabama’s complex health problems and includes 90 partners on her team from government, business, education and more.
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UAB celebrates 50 years of success and shares a new vision to shape the next 50 years in Birmingham.
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“We can’t solve this problem if we won’t even talk about it,” said Alabama-based scientist.
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UAB has been designated as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public Land-grant Universities.
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Watts celebrates milestone year by praising students, faculty and staff who are powered by the will to push frontiers across all disciplines and in all pillars of UAB’s mission.
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The Aug. 22 workshop will further explain what the grand challenge is and foster team formation for the development of grand proposals.
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