Students/Faculty
UAB/Lakeshore Foundation Collaborative awarded more than $10m for research
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Toilet water to detect early diabetes
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Original story from Tyler Greer, UAB News
Christlin Ponraj, graduate student in biotechnology, and Angelin Ponraj, sophomore in biomedical sciences, both from Atlanta, along with Gaurav Agrawal, junior in biomedical engineering from Mobile, are seeking a simple, private way to alert Alabama residents about their risk for diabetes.
NMT student Cohill earns BMEN Green Blazer
From left: Garrett Stephens, Samuel Sullivan IV and Brandon CohillBrandon Cohill, a senior in the UAB Nuclear Medicine Technology program, is one of three students bestowed a new honor — the Green Blazer.
Brandon Cohill, Garrett Stephens and Samuel Sullivan IV were awarded the green blazers for 2016 at the Blazer Male Excellence Network’s Undugu Male Gathering, held Feb. 18 in the new Hill Student Center. Undugu, a Swahili word, translates to “brotherhood.”
Cohill, 23, of Birmingham, will graduate in April with a degree in nuclear medicine technology. Cohill has been an orientation leader, deputy chief of staff of Communications for the Undergraduate Student Government Association, USGA senator for the School of Health Professions, and vice president and president of the Iota Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. The recognition he received from BMEN inspired him to push through his final semester of his undergraduate career, he says.
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Nutrition's Chusyd awarded grant through Smithsonian Institution
Daniella Chusyd, a student in the UAB PhD Nutrition Sciences program and the Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC), and Dr. Janine Brown, a reproductive physiologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, have been awarded a grant through the Smithsonian’s Scholarly Studies Awards for Science program titled “Novel assessments of body composition and relation to metabolic status and fat stores in Asian elephants.”
Read moreEidson, McCurry share ALOTA 2015 Award of Excellence
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2015 ALOTA Award of ExcellenceChristopher Eidson, MS, OTR/L and Valley McCurry, MBA, OTR/L, assistant professors in the UAB Department of Occupational Therapy, shared the Alabama Occupational Therapy Association’s 2015 Award of Excellence. Read more
More than 200 graduates honored at inaugural SHP Hooding Ceremony
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Rimmer to Chair President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition Science Board
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Ana Oliveira named a National Key to the Future by ASCLS
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Will low carb diet help adults with SCI stay on track and reduce their risk? UAB study aims to find out.
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Williams earns grant to study perceptions of discrimination in health care
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Elizabeth Ma abstract earns two national awards
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University Hospital patients receive faster results thanks to CLS student research
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Fernández inaugural winner of diversity award from the Obesity Society
José Fernández, Ph.D.José Fernández, Ph.D., professor and vice chair for Education in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions, has been named the inaugural winner of the Shiriki Kumanyida Diversity Leadership Award from the Obesity Society. The award recognizes an investigator whose research has made a significant difference in the field of obesity disparities.
OT students’ research on play space inequities between affluent and non-affluent communities published
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Biomedical Sciences student Ashley Haynes named National MS Society Top Scholar
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Adrianne Smiley is 1st UAB OT student accepted to AOTA Emerging Leaders program
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The unseen story behind PA student and Miss Alabama contestant Miranda Ward
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Low Vision’s Barstow earns AOTA Fellow honors
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Health Informatics online course earns Quality Matters certification
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OT students’ restroom sign designs win inaugural Golden Toilet Award
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