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March 18, 2014
Blackmon to be Canvas Success manager
Christopher Blackmon will join UAB eLearning and Professional Studies April 1 to oversee the administration, maintenance and enhancement of UAB’s new learning-management system Canvas and supporting technologies.
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Staff Appointments
March 13, 2014
Moellinger wins nurse scientist award at Cardiology 2014
UAB nurse practitioner Ashley Moellinger received the Nursing Scientist Award during Cardiology 2014 — the world’s largest largest pediatric cardiology conference — for her research on postoperative feeding protocol, which she explains here. All presented abstracts are published in the January edition of the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and videos of the oral abstract presenters are online.
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Awards & Honors
March 13, 2014
Fabric, sewers needed to help create large-scale art
People who sew are needed to help installation artist Amanda Browder create two giant fabric installations for the AEIVA and ASC buildings during her residencies, April 2-5 and July 9-12. Also needed are donations of thread and large pieces of brightly colored, non-stretch fabric,including bolts and half-bolts. Donations may be dropped off at ArtPlay or AEIVA through July 6. For more information, contact Jared Ragland at raglandj@uab.eduor visit the UAB Department of Art and Art History online or the AEIVA online.
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Get Involved
March 13, 2014
Joseph elected trustee of American Board of Urology
Professor David Joseph, M.D., chief of pediatric urology, has been elected to a six-year term as trustee of the American Board of Urology, effective Feb. 28. Joseph joined UAB in 1986, and in 2010 he was named to the Beverly P. Head Endowed Chair in Pediatric Urology at Children’s of Alabama.
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Awards & Honors
March 12, 2014
UAB study aims high-tech mapping at violence in Mexico
Chris Kyle, Ph.D., interim chair of anthropology, has spent five years plotting a GIS map of homicides in deadly Guerrero, Mexico. This is among the first and most ambitious attempts to understand varying ways organized criminal violence in is embedded in the community, Kyle says.
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Research & Scholarship
March 12, 2014
Call for proposals: UA System Scholars Institute
The UA System Scholars Institute has released a call for proposals related to this year’s theme, "Teaching, Research and Service: United Through Technology." A limited number of both presentation sessions and seats are available to UAB graduate students. March 31 is the deadline for submissions. Learn more or register online. The event will be held May 12-13 in the UA Bryant Conference Center.
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Learning & Development
As a last-ditch effort, UAB doctors used a portable heart/lung bypass machine originally developed for heart surgery to save a young mother dying from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Patient Care
Nearly 100 difficult-to-image proteins will soar into orbit on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and travel to the International Space Station. They are part of a study to demonstrate the effects of microgravity on protein crystals led by UAB's Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering. (UPDATE: Technical delays have pushed back the March 30 launch. Get the latest info on launch time here).
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Research & Scholarship
March 10, 2014
Fouad to lead new School of Medicine diversity efforts
Mona Fouad, M.D., director of the Division of Preventive Medicine and of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center, has been appointed to a new position — senior associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion — in the UAB School of Medicine, effective April 1.
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Faculty Appointments
