NBC's Rock Center features UAB's Computer Forensics Research Laboratory
Richard Engel, a correspondent for NBC's RockCenter with Brian Williams, recently visited UAB to talk with Gary Warner about his involvement with the "Operation: Trident BreACH" case. Students working in the UAB Computer Forensics Research Laboratory were involved in multiple aspects of the case. Malware Analysts in the lab studied the behavior of the Zeus virus, Spam Analysts identified email campaigns that distributed the malware, and students who had taken the "Investigating Online Crime" class used their Open Source Intelligence skills to help track down Money Mules who were used to smuggle the money from US banks back to Eastern Europe.
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Excellent Teaching in the Humanities
At UAB we believe the humanities offer insight into everything. In these disciplines we learn to explore, to reason, to ask questions and to think creatively and critically. We are thrilled to announce that The College of Arts and Sciences in partnership with the Office of Research and Economic Development is promoting excellent teaching in the humanities.
Associate Dean Rebecca Bach has been working with UAB’s humanities departments to fund teaching enhancement projects that will strengthen the knowledge and understanding of significant topics, texts, and issues; enhance professional development; increase academic vitality; and create productive collaborations between teaching and research in the humanities.
A few of the projects slated to receive funding include Pamela Murray’s forthcoming textbook on Women and Gender in Latin America, Erika Hille Rinker, Ph.D.’s promotion of our relationship with a premier German university, and Mr. Eugene Cuevas’s post-production work on his award-winning feature film, Awakened. Mr. Cuevas teaches film studies in UAB’s English department, and he will now be able to lead students “to a deeper awareness of how films change in the process of production and distribution.” These are only a few of the many important teaching enhancement projects funded through this CAS Dean’s Office initiative. We look forward to following up with you in the coming year on these and more exciting projects promoting teaching excellence in the humanities. Please contact Associate Dean Rebecca Bach for more information at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
UAB Student Earns Academic Honor from USA Today
Jessica Bradford, a senior in the UAB Department of Biology and incoming student in the UAB School of Medicine, has been named to the USA Today 2011 All-USA College Academic Second Team. The honor is based on grades, leadership, activities, and how students extend their intellectual talents beyond the classroom.
Bradford, of Ider, Ala., was honored in part because she founded Students for a Healthier Community to bring awareness of local not-for-profit organizations to her fellow students in 2010. Students for a Healthier Community supports non-profits that work with people without health insurance, have low socioeconomic status or are under-served.
“Students are often in the library or classroom or dorm and don’t have the time to recognize the health concerns affecting the community where we live,” Bradford said.
Theatre UAB Joins Worldwide Reading of New Play on BP Oil Spill
As the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill nears, Theatre UAB will be among a select group of theater companies in the United States and abroad to stage a reading of a new play about the disaster, “The Way of Water.”
Written by Caridad Svich, “The Way of Water” examines the aftermath of the oil spill and its effects on health and the environment in the Gulf region; the mass reading has been organized by NoPassport theatre alliance to raise awareness of those issues.
UAB Department of Theatre Chair Kelly Allison, M.F.A., says Svich asked Theatre UAB to participate, and UAB is the only Alabama venue to stage a reading. The free performance will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 28, 2012, in the Alys Stephens Center Odess Theatre, 1200 10th Ave. South.
