Matt Windsor
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Discoveries & Innovations
November 17, 2023
This professor’s new startup aims to erase immune memories to stop Crohn’s disease
Charles Elson, M.D., has developed an “antivaccine” that could remove the faulty memory cells that drive this autoimmune disorder. He launched ImmPrev Bio, Inc., in order to reach a first-in-human clinical trial.
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Achievements
Lori Edmonds, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Education, has an idea to combat teacher burnout as it becomes a major issue in classrooms nationwide.
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Awards & Honors
October 27, 2023
Nanorobots, genetic testing, better lasers — a kidney stone pioneer looks to the future
Dean Assimos, M.D., professor and emeritus chair of the Department of Urology, just received a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to the study of kidney stones. Here is what he sees coming next.
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Awards & Honors
Ritika Samant, a first-year student in the Heersink School of Medicine who served as president of the Undergraduate Student Government Association at UAB in 2022-2023, received the 2023 President’s Award for Excellence in Support of UAB and Shared Governance.
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Awards & Honors
October 19, 2023
Open enrollment for benefits is underway
UAB’s annual open enrollment for benefits will be held Oct. 20-Nov. 6. Eligible employees can choose among dental, vision and health insurance plans plus voluntary plan options and tax-deferred spending accounts for health and dependent care for 2024.
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Benefits & Policies
