Christophe E. Jackson, a doctoral student in the Department of Biology, has been awarded a 2011 Ford Foundation Fellowship in its dissertation competition.

A UAB student has won a prestigious National Science Foundation grant; three UAB students received honorable mentions.

UAB senior Krishna Bhatt has won the Katherine Cooper Cater Fellowship worth $3,000 from Alpha Lambda Delta.

Joseph Olson, a junior in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a scholarship to attend the prestigious Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)-RISE summer internship program.

UAB senior will teach English to middle- and high-school students and form a youth dance group

Mallick Hossain of Gadsden has been named a 2011 Goldwater Scholar; three other UAB students named Goldwater Honorable mentions.

UAB junior Kimberly Everett is a 2011 Harry S. Truman Scholar, one of just 60 chosen from around the country.

Two undergraduate biology majors from UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences have been granted $35,000 United Negro College Fund Merck Science Research Scholarships, awards that may provide another $10,000 for the students’ UAB research laboratories.

Aaron Lamplugh, a sophomore student in the UAB School of Engineering, has been selected for a prestigious Department of Homeland Security STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Scholarship.

UAB biology graduate student Andrew Coleman was awarded a 2011 John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship from the National Sea Grant.