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The Compleat Physician Award is given each year to a U.S. physician who embodies medical excellence and humane and ethical care.
Longtime UAB faculty member Max Cooper is co-recipient of the 2018 Japan Prize in Medical Science and Medicinal Science.
Patrician is the second holder of the chair named for the School of Nursing's third dean.
A UAB pediatrician has received the 2018 Paul V. Miles Fellowship Award from the American Board of Pediatrics.
A UAB alumna and director of the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop won the 2017 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry.
Two UAB scholars aim to improve professional development for graduate teaching assistants.
In the 1800s, Africans and African Americans found prestige wealth, and freedom in an unlikely haven — Czarist Russia.
A UAB School of Dentistry professor has been named to the Board of Directors for the American College of Prosthodontists.
UAB alumnus Hernandez D. Stroud has been named to Forbes’ 2018 list of 30 Under 30 in Law and Policy.

Professor John K. Moore Jr., Ph.D., is conducting the first comprehensive study of a centuries-old legal case in Spain.

UAB students will focus on transportation research as part of Federal Highway Administration fellowship.

A manuscript exploring shoulder injuries in long-haul truck drivers earns a national writing award.

UAB Health System CEO Will Ferniany has been named to Becker’s Healthcare list of influential nonprofit health care organization leaders.
Blazer football adds to its postseason with Coach Clark being named CBS Sports National Coach of the Year.
At UAB, Alexa Wade found inspiration, open lab doors and an adept mentor.
UAB psychology instructor will lead national organization devoted to the growth and development of the art therapy profession.
Courtney Bentley, Ed.D., has been named president-elect of the Alabama Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
S. Louis Bridges Jr., M.D., Ph.D., will serve as vice president of the Rheumatology Research Foundation.
Four awards are helping a School of Nursing student in her development as an early career nurse scientist.
Fobian is interested in reducing childhood and adolescent obesity by assessing new and innovative factors that may be successful in obesity interventions.
The award honors his distinguished contributions to neuroscience, particularly for discovery of gliotransmission.
A UAB researcher has received a 2017 Susan G. Komen grant to investigate combination drug therapies for HER2-positive breast cancer.
UAB student Justin Wiley and Sandra Sims, Ph.D., have been named Outstanding Future Professional of the Year and Physical Educator of the Year by the Alabama State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
This award from the AABB honors the top paper published in the journal Transfusion.
Karen Meneses, Ph.D., professor and associate dean for Research and Scholarship, has been appointed to the National Institute of Nursing Research National Advisory Council, which helps guide NINR’s direction, through 2021.
From imagining peace to cancer awareness, posters designed by Professor Erin Wright are on exhibition from Colorado and México to Bolivia, China and Iran.
Infectious diseases professor at UAB will collaborate with researchers, policy experts and clinicians from across the country to provide nonpartisan, evidence-based guidance.
Fouad has worked to establish the validity of health disparities as a national scientific research priority.
This grant will fully support Kendra Royston’s research work within the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology throughout the spring of 2018.
Wilbanks’ work with the closed claims research team earned him the Researcher of the Year Award.
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