November 2014 - The Reporter
May 23, 2014
Make time for massage therapy
Appointments with certified massage therapists are available for 30 or 60 minutes in the Campus Rec Center, and prices start as low as $35. Details online.
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Be Healthy
Vettes-4-Vets, a veterans organization of Corvette enthusiasts, has established an endowed award to benefit current or former members of the U.S. military who enroll in degree-granting programs at UAB.
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The Campaign for UAB
A new residency program, one of four in the nation, will help address the mental health needs of a growing veteran population. The program, supported by a three-year pilot grant from the Veterans Health Administration, is open to certified mental health nurse practitioners who have graduated within the past 12 months.
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Patient Care
May 23, 2014
Kraft invited to join national study section
Timothy Kraft, Ph.D., associate professor in Vision Sciences, was selected for membership in the Biology of the Visual System Study Section, Center for Scientific Review for a four-year term beginning July 1.
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Achievements
May 22, 2014
UAB opens urgent care clinic downtown
Patients ages 18 and older will be treated for non-emergency conditions seven days a week.
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Patient Care
May 22, 2014
Physical Therapy program celebrates 50 years
The UAB Physical Therapy program graduated its first class of baccalaureate students in 1967 — before there was a University of Alabama at Birmingham — and has made indelible marks on the profession through clinical care, research, teaching and service. See its rich history in this video.
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Take Note
An ultra-fast, ultra-tiny switch operates at terahertz speeds — a thousand times faster than the switches in today's fastest consumer-grade computers — using gold nanoparticles added to man-made vanadium dioxide. Get a glimpse into the future from UAB's David Hilton, Ph.D., and graduate student Nate Brady in The Mix, UAB's research blog.
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Research & Scholarship
UAB is examining the way genes, clinical factors, environment and lifestyle interact to affect individual response to anticoagulants.
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Research & Scholarship
May 19, 2014
Hasan featured in Inc. story on digital forensics
Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., director of the UAB's SECRETLab, talks about the challenges facing data detectives and the ways technology can assist law-enforcement, help secure corporate, military and national institutions and protect the food and medicine supply chain.
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Research & Scholarship
Works of art made by women in rural India and prints from post-war Japan will be featured in exhibitions June 5-July 17 in the UAB Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts. A free opening reception is planned 5-8 p.m. June 6.
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Arts & Recreation
