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Shakespeare at a steel mill, babies getting eye exams, doctors on the dance floor—take a visual tour of life on and off campus with these UAB Magazine slideshows.
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Bright Eyes
UAB's pediatric optometrists face a new adventure every day, with patients who would rather dance or play with toys than share information about vision problems. Take a look behind the scenes in this slideshow (click image or link above to start), or click here to read the article, in which Kristine Hopkins, O.D., describes the fun and challenges of the job. She also reveals how pediatric optometrists adapt their tools and skills to treat patients from birth to the teen years and beyond.
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Dream Role
When UAB theatre student Hannah Hughes portrayed Puck in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it was no ordinary performance. For one thing, the play was reimagined as a Bollywood fantasy. And it came to life amid the smokestacks of Birmingham’s Sloss Furnaces. Click here to read the article.
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The Dancing Doctor
UAB high-risk ob/gyn Debora Kimberlin, M.D., also delivers winning performances on the dance floor. Read about Kimberlin's weekly routine or click the image or link above to watch a video of her recent win at the Nashville Starz contest.
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On Target
Timothy Kraft, an investigator in UAB's Vision Science Research Center, is developing a new kind of gunsight that relies on a trick of the eye to improve a shooter's aim. In this slideshow, Kraft explains how the secret to better marksmanship may be to let the mind fill in the blanks.
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Success in the City
In some Birmingham-area school districts, up to a quarter of new teachers leave within the first three years, frustrated by crowded classrooms, inadequate funding, and other challenges. This slideshow shares the stories of alumni in the UAB School of Education's Urban Teacher Enhancement Program who are applying their new skills in Birmingham classrooms. Click here to read the article.
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The Science Behind the Spark
Creativity helps make us human, but it is still something of a mystery because it is difficult to measure scientifically. As an artist himself, UAB neurobiologist David Sweatt, Ph.D., has pondered the brain mechanisms that could potentially power our ideas. Join him on a search for the sources of creativity in this slideshow, which also features several of Sweatt’s vivid paintings. Click here to read the article.
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Birmingham to Brazil
Brazil’s economy is on the rise, in part because the South American nation is the world’s second largest tobacco producer. UAB preventive medicine expert Isabel Scarinci, Ph.D., is fighting the spread of smoking and breast cancer in her home country, applying methods that have yielded success in Alabama. Join her as she describes the culture in this slideshow—and discusses the challenges, and the opportunities to build stronger links between UAB and Brazil in this article.
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Industrial Strength
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 UAB history instructor and Sloss curator Karen Utz uses oral histories—and even recipes—to learn about this vanished way of life and share it with her students. Follow her as she sheds new light on a key, but often overlooked, era in the city’s past.
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