Winter 2009 Issue

Winter 2009
 

FEATURES

Sugar, Sugar
The story of sugar doesn't end with dessert. In this issue, we examine the many moods of the world's most seductive ingredient.

Extreme Medicine
From the backwoods to deep space, a look at health care on the edge

Products of the System
UAB faculty and staff recall school days in China.

City Sidewalks
Of stoops and sewing circles: how to breathe new life into old neighborhoods

The Problems of Pain
Searching for solutions to endless suffering

UAB Magazine Weekly
Baby on Board Print E-mail

One couple’s winding road to parenthood at UAB

By Lisa C. Bailey

Copeland family portrait
James and Emily Copeland with their son, Matthew

To this day, Emily Copeland and her husband, James, have no idea when their son was born. They know the year, of course, and the day, and the hour. After that, it gets a little fuzzy. There were a few too many things going on that May morning in 2006 when Matthew decided he wasn’t going to wait to full-term to make his debut—much less make it to the hospital.

Emily, who has worked at UAB for five years, got up that morning expecting to visit her obstetrician, but just for a routine visit. “My pregnancy was pretty much normal up until 28 weeks,” Emily says. “But the night before I had Matthew, I started feeling a little bit of discomfort. And I thought, ‘OK, I’ve got an appointment in the morning. I’ll just tell my doctor at 8:45. I can make it until then.’” Emily was due August 1—almost three months later—“and we really thought we had our stuff together,” she says. “We were getting his nursery ready. I had no clue.”

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Industrial Strength Print E-mail

Bringing to Life Birmingham’s Iron Age

By Charles Buchanan

For nearly 90 years, Sloss Furnaces helped fuel Birmingham’s booming growth, drawing hundreds of families to live and work in the shadow of the massive iron plant. Today Sloss curator—and UAB history instructor—Karen Utz is learning about this vanished way of life and sharing it with her students. In the process, she is shedding new light on a key, but often overlooked, era in the city’s past.

In this slideshow, Utz describes how she uses oral histories and even recipes to preserve the stories of Birmingham ironworkers.

 

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