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More than $5.2 million has been paid in UAB’s Finish the Drive campaign to secure $17.2 million pledged to UAB Athletics, exceeding the $4.5 million Jan. 15 goal.
Internationally recognized scholar and researcher Marie A. Bakitas will present at UAB on palliative care Feb. 10.
With more than 162,000 square feet, the new UAB Hill Student Center is the living room of the university and provides places for students to congregate, eat and study, making it their home away from home.
UAB Honors College enrollment has more than doubled since 2012, and new initiatives and programs continue to garner great feedback from students.
Discussion will cover the relationship between diet and exercise and the biology of aging.
Dine for a Cure, a fundraising event for cancer research, will be at MELT on Tuesday, Jan. 19.
UAB online programs ranked in six of the eight categories measured.
Teens Engineer will provide after-school programs at area Birmingham Public Library branches.
See an exhibition of Smith’s most recent graphite works at a Project Space show presented by the Department of Art and Art History, with a free reception from 6-8 p.m. Jan. 19.
The Office of University Relations captured the essence of the momentum and excitement across the UAB campus in an institutional pride video highlighting each area of the comprehensive university’s multifaceted mission.
UAB students are facing — and winning — a Shark Tank-style challenge with a tantalizing prize: the opportunity to launch their own start-ups inside Birmingham’s Innovation Depot before they graduate. Discover how UAB’s Collat School of Business and School of Engineering emphasize entrepreneurship by helping students bring their innovative ideas to life.
The School of Education online master’s program is considered one of the best choices for students in 2016.
Celebrate UAB’s diversity and learn about other cultures and experiences at UAB Community Week.
UAB science, tech, engineering, and math students know how to devise clever solutions to tough problems. Now they’re facing their biggest challenge: America’s shortage of qualified STEM teachers. Go behind the scenes of UABTeach, a program inspiring these students to translate their knowledge and passion into lessons for Alabama’s children.
UAB is partnering with Project SEARCH to provide high school students who have developmental disabilities with internship opportunities to help guide them on career selection.
Many patients diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as adults do not fit the standard profile for a diabetes diagnosis; they are younger, are relatively fit and have little if any belly fat. 
Turn resolutions into habits for the New Year.
Space heater collection highlights conservation, cost-cutting efforts at UAB School of Public Health
A 500-watt space heater can cost an estimated $306.60 per year in power consumption, so UAB School of Public Health faculty and staff are giving theirs to a local organization, as well as taking other steps to save energy and money.
The psychology program was rated first in the South.
If you have resolved to clean up your act in 2016, ArtPlay can help with three one-day workshops dedicated to the practice of feng shui.
The world’s most prestigious halls feature Meyer audio systems, including Eastman Kodak Hall, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, and the ASC has joined that club of excellence and discrimination. 
UAB’s Community Health Innovation Awards honor job training programs, health and wellness, and mental health support.
The winter holiday season is a time of particular blood need, so UAB and the American Red Cross will team up to host Birmingham’s Biggest Blood Drive after Christmas at the Riverchase Galleria.
The Central Alabama Caribbean American Organization shares Caribbean culture and is a resource for area students from the Caribbean.
The quilts, made by more than 100 volunteers from scrubs worn by medical staff at the Women and Infants Center, were unveiled at a ceremony Dec. 17.
With significant implications to its student enrollment and economic impact in the region, UAB’s partnership with INTO University Partnerships will increase access for international students to one of the nation’s most diverse college campuses.
Joshua Pritchett will take his B.S. degree in computer and information sciences to California and work with burst buffer technology.
Officials from BBVA Compass and the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Wednesday officially debuted the city’s newest sports venue, BBVA Compass Field, and marked the start of its final phase of construction by having an MLS midfielder lead students from Glen Iris Elementary through drills on the Blazers’ pristine soccer pitch.
Students and faculty earned more than two dozen award nominations and were invited to perform at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Region IV Festival. A free matinee of the production is set for 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, in UAB's Alys Stephens Center.
Certified application counselors will be at The Kirklin Clinic on Dec. 12 and Jan. 23 to answer questions and help those who are eligible enroll in the Health Insurance Marketplace.