UAB ophthalmologists are racing to save our sight. While the number of Americans with glaucoma could double by 2050, UAB’s team of specialists and scientists is expanding knowledge about the disease. Discover how expert care, clever inventions, and engineering ingenuity could lead to early detection and new treatments in UAB Magazine.
School of Health Professions’ master’s in health administration program moves up three spots to No. 2 in the United States.
The commission will present awards for 2015’s Outstanding Women and present a free lecture by leadership expert Betsy Myers.
Anne Marie Corgill, 2015 Alabama Teacher of the Year, has been named one of four finalists for National Teacher of the Year.
Harvey Makadon, M.D., director of the National LGBT Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute, will be at UAB on March 11.
Match Day, when fourth-year medical students learn their residency assignments, is March 20 in the Alabama Theater.
The 15th annual UAB School of Medicine art show kicks off March 17.

UAB Collat School of Business researcher breaks new ground on ways to increase sales profits.

A gift from AT&T made possible a pilot program to improve writing skills at Parker High School.
5K Color Run hosted by Oak Mountain High School students to raise money for cancer research at UAB.
Combined measurements of brain anatomy, connectivity and neurochemistry distinguish autism spectrum disorder subjects from controls.
Guest speaker and former Surgeon General Regina Benjamin among many who will see new approaches and successful models of current health-disparities research.
Previous research indicated six weeks of treatment improved hearing, but new findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveal six months is better.
UAB is testing a tablet-based decision aid in hopes of improving outcomes for minority women with lupus and kidney disease
The American Society of Nutrition honors two UAB scientists.
The Concert Choir will perform at high schools and churches in Shelby County, Birmingham, Florence, Madison and Decatur and in Smyrna and Nashville, Tennessee.
UAB’s Ethics Bowl team, which won the Southeast regionals, advanced to the national College Ethics Bowl for the first time since 2012.
Many Alabama communities face a growing demand for health care, but a shrinking number of providers. Discover how UAB’s School of Nursing is training nurse practitioners to help fill the void in both primary and specialty care, with tracks reflecting the field’s evolving role, in UAB Magazine.
Juror Michael Velliquette will lecture at 5 p.m. Friday, March 13, followed by a free opening reception.
UAB’s online accounting program has been recognized by TheBestSchools.org as the best in the nation.