Matt Windsor
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American adults tend to gain a pound or two per year. Researchers are testing a new approach to halt this creeping weight gain. They give participants a digital scale that graphs their weight over time and one job: step on it daily.
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Discoveries & Innovations
Meet the students and staff helping Alabamians across the state stay safe and learn the truth about COVID vaccines, one call at a time.
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Behind the Scenes
December 17, 2021
This long-running study proves that nice people finish first
More than 100 different UAB researchers have been first authors on papers based on the REGARDS study thanks to its innovative design — and a uniquely “friendly and welcoming team.”
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Discoveries & Innovations
December 16, 2021
Chen recognized by Association for Computing Machinery for ‘outstanding scientific contributions to computing’
Jake Chen, Ph.D., associate director of the Informatics Institute, is the first ACM member in Alabama to be honored as a Distinguished Member in this category.
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Achievements
December 13, 2021
Co-enrolled biomedical engineering courses for med students expand
New courses in Precision Medicine and Entrepreneurship in Medicine from leading BME faculty will debut in spring 2022 semester.
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Programs & Curricula
December 06, 2021
Using AI to translate old code and fix aging computer systems
UAB computer scientists are contributing to a DARPA-funded initiative with artificial intelligence-based programming languages that allow humans to understand the “safety and correctness of code in the wild.”
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Grants Awarded
November 29, 2021
Building the right credentials for today's hybrid workforce
New graduate certificates in academic advising and diversity, equity, inclusion and advocacy are the latest in a series of practitioner-oriented programs at UAB. Find out why students and faculty are excited, and how the AL ASSET initiative offers opportunities statewide.
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Programs & Curricula
November 29, 2021
As simulation efforts expand at UAB, a new structure focuses on growth
One of the largest simulation groups in the country will become two separate teams as of July 2022 to meet current and future growth: UAB Clinical Simulation for the Health System and the Office of Interprofessional Simulation for the academic campus.
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Campus News
November 17, 2021
Study provides ‘critical information’ for treating childhood cancer patients with COVID
The largest registry of U.S. children with cancer who were diagnosed with COVID-19 found an increased risk of having severe infection and having their cancer therapy modified because of COVID, underscoring the urgency of vaccinations for these children, the authors say.
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Research Findings
November 08, 2021
Testing a promising treatment for functional seizures in children
Clinical psychologist Aaron Fobian, Ph.D., has developed a therapy for this debilitating condition that she is now testing in a major NIH-sponsored clinical trial.
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Advances
