The festival is presented by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre. Since UAB’s first Festival of Ten-Minute Plays in 2003, these roller-coaster evenings have featured a variety of short comedies and tragedies, each performed in about 10 minutes.

In the fall of 2018, 358 students from 96 higher education institutions in 16 countries were named University Innovation fellows — a prestigious honor that empowers students to be agents of change for their schools. Four UAB Honors College students were among those chosen.

For the past 20 years, Hardy has developed the Cancer Center’s Deep South Network for Cancer Control, helping to train more than 1,200 laypeople to spread lifesaving information, and hope, in their neighborhoods and hometowns.