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Arora will be involved in assigning manuscripts focused on genetics, omics and precision medicine as it relates to cardiovascular disease.

Erica Webb has been named a finalist for the prestigious scholarship; winners will be announced April 20.
The nonprofit alliance advances public awareness about the progress and promise of brain research.
The UAB School of Nursing student is the first from the university to receive this fellowship.
A Pew Charitable Trusts Fellowship will allow a Ph.D. graduate to continue work to save endangered sea turtles.
A School of Optometry researcher is beginning a study that could help uncover therapies to slow or stop vision loss.
Holland will serve as a voice for women's health, impacting policy and clinical practice.
A Department of Urology assistant professor was awarded a K01 grant to study mechanisms related to kidney stone disease.
Two UAB optometrists have been named among international top productive authors in dry eye disease research.
The Compleat Physician Award is given each year to a U.S. physician who embodies medical excellence and humane and ethical care.
Longtime UAB faculty member Max Cooper is co-recipient of the 2018 Japan Prize in Medical Science and Medicinal Science.
Patrician is the second holder of the chair named for the School of Nursing's third dean.
A UAB pediatrician has received the 2018 Paul V. Miles Fellowship Award from the American Board of Pediatrics.
A UAB alumna and director of the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop won the 2017 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry.
Two UAB scholars aim to improve professional development for graduate teaching assistants.
In the 1800s, Africans and African Americans found prestige wealth, and freedom in an unlikely haven — Czarist Russia.
A UAB School of Dentistry professor has been named to the Board of Directors for the American College of Prosthodontists.
UAB alumnus Hernandez D. Stroud has been named to Forbes’ 2018 list of 30 Under 30 in Law and Policy.

Professor John K. Moore Jr., Ph.D., is conducting the first comprehensive study of a centuries-old legal case in Spain.

UAB students will focus on transportation research as part of Federal Highway Administration fellowship.

A manuscript exploring shoulder injuries in long-haul truck drivers earns a national writing award.

UAB Health System CEO Will Ferniany has been named to Becker’s Healthcare list of influential nonprofit health care organization leaders.
Blazer football adds to its postseason with Coach Clark being named CBS Sports National Coach of the Year.
At UAB, Alexa Wade found inspiration, open lab doors and an adept mentor.
UAB psychology instructor will lead national organization devoted to the growth and development of the art therapy profession.
Courtney Bentley, Ed.D., has been named president-elect of the Alabama Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
S. Louis Bridges Jr., M.D., Ph.D., will serve as vice president of the Rheumatology Research Foundation.
Four awards are helping a School of Nursing student in her development as an early career nurse scientist.
Fobian is interested in reducing childhood and adolescent obesity by assessing new and innovative factors that may be successful in obesity interventions.
The award honors his distinguished contributions to neuroscience, particularly for discovery of gliotransmission.
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