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Fall/Winter 2023

Our newest issue of UAB Magazine closes out the year with fascinating profiles of UAB employees, students and alumni, as well as features on an innovative grant improving health outcomes in Alabama's Black Belt region, the achievements of some of our graduate student leaders, what it's really like behind the scenes at UAB, and how an English instructor documented her float trip along the Cahaba River.

Night Lights

Illuminating Birmingham's creative community
By Charles Buchanan • Photos by Steve Wood
Panorama of UAB's Light Dreams festival
Illuminating Birmingham's creative community
By Charles Buchanan • Photos by Steve Wood
Light Dreams, the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center’s (ASC) celebration of the creative spark, added new dimensions for its second year. The centerpiece digital projection show transformed the ASC’s façade into a 3-D cabinet of curiosities. Virtual reality and an interactive game, created by engineers in UAB’s Enabling Technology Laboratory, revealed new worlds. And more than 40 community artists debuted larger-than-life sculptures and performances involving smoke, mist, fire, mirrors, and more. “Light Dreams is living art—art that belongs to an audience in the moment and never takes the same form again,” says Theresa Bruno, ASC corporate board chair, president of THB Inc., and co-chair of The Campaign for UAB. “There’s something really powerful about that.”
 
Light projection on Spencer Honors House during Light Dreams
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