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  • Leap year 2024: Why do we have an extra day this February?
    A UAB physics expert breaks down the details and history of why we recognize the Gregorian calendar leap year.
  • UAB student team ranks first in statewide entrepreneurship competition
    A team of UAB students recently won $10,000 and first place in the statewide entrepreneurship competition, Innovate Alabama: Entrepreneurship Hackathon.
  • Passion and purpose: Physics student combines his love of music and science at UAB
    A UAB physics student is combining his love of music with the complexity of science to one day change the world through acoustics.