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Remembering Professor Marlene Johnson
It is with a heavy heart that we share the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Professor Marlene Johnson on November 2, 2020. After teaching in the UAB Department of Theatre for 14 years, Prof. Johnson will be remembered as a dedicated educator, a generous colleague, and an inspired artist. She is survived by her husband Edwin Booth and sister Myrna Johnson Moehring.
Winners of the 2020-2021 “Building a Multicultural Curriculum” grants
Dr. John Maddox, an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, has published, “Challenging the Black Atlantic: The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Gonçalves,” (Bucknell University Press). The book is Maddox’s first literary criticism.
Alumni Honored as 2020 Rising Stars
Kimberly Hazelwood has accepted the position of Executive Director for Business Operations and will start in August 2020.
The program was approved as a degree-granting program by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education on April 28, 2000.
History Professor Publishes New Book
Read the Spring 2020 Arts & Sciences Magazine
College Advisors Win UAB Advising Awards
Congratulations to UAB Advising Award winners Deborah Littleton, College of Arts and Sciences Director of Advising and advisor for Criminal Justice majors; and Whitney Woodard, who advises all our Neuroscience and International Studies majors.
The UAB College of Arts and Sciences will offer a training session for students preparing an application to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Training will occur on Thursday, Sept. 5, at 3:30 p.m. in Volker Hall Lecture Room B.
2019 NSF CAREER Award Training
The UAB College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to again offer campus-wide training to junior faculty planning to apply for a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
Employees recognized at 2018 UAB Service Awards
Twenty-six College of Arts and Sciences employees who have worked at UAB for 20 years or more were recognized at the annual UAB Service Awards Reception on March 1, 2019.
2019 Winners of College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching Announced
Established in 2018, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes full-time regular faculty members of College of Arts and Sciences who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in teaching.
Dr. Jill Clements named first-ever winner of the Michel de Montaigne Endowed Prize in the History of Ideas
Jill Clements, Ph.D., has been named as the recipient of the first Michel de Montaigne Endowed Prize in the History of Ideas.
Fall 2018: Letter from Robert E. Palazzo, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
If you haven't been to campus lately, I can't stress enough how different the environment is from what you may remember from your student days.
New ‘History of Ideas’ prize encourages essay submissions through Jan. 6
Grants workshop with NEH Director Jon Parrish Peede
Join fellow humanities faculty from UAB and other area colleges and universities for this unique opportunity to hear from National Endowment for the Humanities Director Jon Parrish Peede on how to apply for NEH grants.