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February 19, 2024

New class enters UAB Developing Emerging Administrative Leaders Program

Meet the 2024 cohort of the DEAL Program, which exposes promising staff members to the essential components of administrative and management positions across UAB.

Published in Learning & Development

January 25, 2024

Largest whole-genome sequencing study in Kawasaki disease could point to precision treatment

Research by UAB genetic epidemiologist Sadeep Shrestha, Ph.D., sheds light on a mysterious condition that is now the leading cause of acquired heart disease among children in the United States.

Published in Research Findings

January 17, 2024

Advance your career with new Collat professional courses

Collat Professional Education offers live-online and self-paced courses in project management, digital marketing, data visualization and more.

Published in Learning & Development

January 17, 2024

UAB researchers explain how GIS has transformed their work

Geographic information systems technology is being used to study mortgage decisions, drinking behavior, environmental injustice, and the link between redlining and colon cancer. All Blazers now have free access to ArcGIS software.

Published in Tools & Technology

January 04, 2024

Faculty go to Washington for leadership roles at NSF

Eugenia Kharlampieva, Ph.D., of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Molly Wasko, Ph.D., of the Collat School of Business, are serving as program directors at the National Science Foundation through a program that brings practicing scientists into the heart of the country’s scientific decision-making.

Published in Achievements

December 14, 2023

Love it or hate it, generative AI is not going away

Here’s how UAB’s Center for Teaching and Learning is responding, and how UAB faculty are using gen AI this semester to teach first-year composition, graduate-level professional writing and information security.

Published in Teaching & Learning

December 14, 2023

Hands-on review: What the president of a national group of writing program leaders thinks of ChatGPT

Lilian Mina, Ph.D., director of the writing program in the Department of English, shares how she has used generative AI tools in her upper-level Professional Writing course this semester.

Published in Teaching & Learning

December 14, 2023

5 prompts that explain how a writing professor flipped the script on AI

Assistant Professor Meagan Malone, Ph.D., teaches First-Year Composition and 300-level Professional Writing courses in the Department of English. Here is how she reworked her classes this fall to incorporate generative AI tools.

Published in Teaching & Learning

December 14, 2023

This business professor gave his students an object lesson in trusting AI over human judgment

Professor Paul Di Gangi, Ph.D., gave ChatGPT and Bard a chance to weigh in on a standard exercise for future IT leaders. Given the opportunity to make subjective decisions on tough calls, the models went their own way.

Published in Teaching & Learning

December 04, 2023

4 cutting-edge machines powering UAB discoveries

With research awards breaking all-time records, we toured labs where high-tech tools are driving science forward.

Published in Discoveries & Innovations

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Teaching & Learning

GenAI is changing how professors teach writing. This faculty member has built a place to talk about “the conundrums that plague me.”
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT pose all kinds of questions for the future of writing instruction. Meagan Malone, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of English, has launched a website and blog called Composing in the Age of GenAI to share ideas and resources and spark conversations with others in the field.

posted 29 days ago 896 views
Teaching & Learning

A professor shows future lawyers how to put AI in its place
Brandon Blankenship, J.D., teaching assistant professor and director of the Pre-Law Program in the J. Frank Barefield, Jr. Department of Criminal Justice, shares interactive exercises he uses in the classroom, and how he is using AI in a project to identify suspected bias in judicial decision-making.

posted a while back 2087 views
Teaching & Learning

Using generative AI to teach a “mindset of exploration”
Jonan Phillip Donaldson, Ph.D., who directs UAB’s fully online master’s program in instructional design and development, shares activities that students love.

posted a while back 2367 views
Teaching & Learning

How a computer science professor is using AI in her classroom
Amber Wagner, Ph.D., says AI tools are allowing her to accelerate student learning and can help future programmers keep pace with the constant change that has always been part of the profession.

posted a while back 2868 views
Teaching & Learning

Love it or hate it, generative AI is not going away
Here’s how UAB’s Center for Teaching and Learning is responding, and how UAB faculty are using gen AI this semester to teach first-year composition, graduate-level professional writing and information security.

posted a while back 3187 views
Teaching & Learning

Hands-on review: What the president of a national group of writing program leaders thinks of ChatGPT
Lilian Mina, Ph.D., director of the writing program in the Department of English, shares how she has used generative AI tools in her upper-level Professional Writing course this semester.

posted a while back 3979 views
Teaching & Learning

5 prompts that explain how a writing professor flipped the script on AI
Assistant Professor Meagan Malone, Ph.D., teaches First-Year Composition and 300-level Professional Writing courses in the Department of English. Here is how she reworked her classes this fall to incorporate generative AI tools.

posted a while back 4254 views
Teaching & Learning

This business professor gave his students an object lesson in trusting AI over human judgment
Professor Paul Di Gangi, Ph.D., gave ChatGPT and Bard a chance to weigh in on a standard exercise for future IT leaders. Given the opportunity to make subjective decisions on tough calls, the models went their own way.

posted a while back 2334 views
Teaching & Learning

Faculty and staff: Here are 5 ways to help prepare students for their careers

With fall semester already in high gear, here is a quick refresher on all that the UAB Career Center offers to support students on their career journeys.

posted a while back 2955 views
Teaching & Learning

Take a look inside UAB’s simulation capabilities with these 10 photos
Learners can get hands-on practice in everything from birthing to crisis management, to tricky conversations at the Office of Interprofessional Simulation’s Simulation Center in Volker Hall.

posted a while back 3449 views
Teaching & Learning

New site gives UAB students an edge in anatomy studies
The Virtual Anatomy Lab, created by a faculty member and a graduate student who is about to begin medical school, brings together a wealth of resources and study tools, from textbooks to podcasts.

posted a while back 4274 views
Teaching & Learning

Big Interview replaces InterviewStream as UAB’s interview practice platform
The UAB Career Center has launched a new interview practice platform designed to help students, faculty and staff improve their interview skills and career readiness through training and practice.

posted a while back 2828 views
Teaching & Learning

Poverty Simulation opens high-impact, interprofessional training to all students
This eye-opening experience is more popular than ever. Hear from faculty on how they incorporate the two-hour sim, now fully online, in their courses for undergraduates, graduates and professionals.

posted a while back 4064 views
Teaching & Learning

Curious about virtual reality? Get hands-on and learn how the technology is being used today at UAB
Cori Perdue, Ph.D., director of Collat Professional Education, and Dorothy Ogdon, emerging technologies librarian, talk about how they are using VR and augmented reality and how anyone with a BlazerID can check out a headset to take home.

posted a while back 6157 views
Teaching & Learning

An artistic focus in astronomy courses creates community and creativity for science students

Students in Michelle Wooten’s AST 101, 102 and 103 courses discovered unique connections to course material by creating artwork as part of class assignments.

posted a while back 5734 views
Teaching & Learning

Engage students, develop innovative programming with 2 Honors College opportunities

The Honors College Faculty Fellows program and the Summer Course Development Grant enable faculty to provide stimulating academic enrichment opportunities for honors students and enhance community within the college.

posted a while back 4138 views
Teaching & Learning

New Career Center badges let students enhance LinkedIn pages, portfolios and more
The Career Center Badge Rewards initiative uses gamification to enhance student learning and engagement — and signals career readiness to potential employers.

posted a while back 5384 views
Teaching & Learning

Navigating life after prison is ‘nearly impossible.’ These faculty are challenging civilians to try.
Humanities and social sciences unite to build an app that brings to life the struggles faced by former offenders in order to make the case for change. The project was made possible by funding from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Interdisciplinary Team Proposal program.

posted a while back 6778 views
Teaching & Learning

Art imitating life: How a biology student uses embroidery to learn in her own way

Laura Calvert, a senior majoring in biomedical sciences, found that embroidering illustrations of plant structures, the glycolysis process and the human digestive system helped her to better grasp the subject matter — all while creating art along the way.

posted a while back 7070 views
Teaching & Learning

Course melds empathy with app design to help former offenders reenter public life

Sally Cramer and Stacy Moak from the College of Arts and Sciences partnered to lead a unique course that challenged graphic design students to conceive, design and prototype mobile apps that alleviate barriers to reentry.

posted a while back 6732 views

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