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In 2022, 22 faculty members published or edited 20 books across the Arts and Humanities, Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

While growing up in Central Alabama, William Price, D.M.A., relished opportunities to collaborate with his fellow students and friends on musical projects.

Undergraduate programs in immunology and cancer biology are offering students one-of-a-kind educational experiences.

This spring, public relations students from UAB took home an astounding number of awards at the annual conference for the Public Relations Council of Alabama.

The UAB Department of Psychology is behind the wheel of an innovative research program designed to study driver behavior.

Throughout the spring, George Liber served as UAB's expert on the war in Ukraine.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Brynn Welch, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Philosophy, was selected to attend The Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy.

For Lauren Wickman, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, calculus is far more than numbers and equations.

Nine Alabama universities and one private firm are partnered in a new $20 million, five-year effort to develop transformative technologies in plasma science and engineering.

Joyce-Zoe Farley, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of African American Studies and Public History at UAB, shares three things to read, watch, and listen to in honor of Black History Month.

In November 2020, the College of Arts and Sciences awarded “Building a Multicultural Curriculum” grants to eight faculty members for academic year 2020-2021. With the grants, faculty members could develop new courses or revise existing courses to support students’ diversity awareness and build their multicultural competence.

The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) has a clear mission: To enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies.

Arts and Sciences faculty gather to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by the pandemic.

Not until I became a college professor did I contemplate the gap between the writing I had been taught and the writing I had practiced in the working world.

Solar panels are a blessing in the South. Nonetheless, despite this advantage, resistance to change, bottom-lines, politics, and indifference have conspired to impede progress in solar energy.

Alabamians are experiencing more intensive, flooding rainfall. Our insurance agents selling flood insurance know it, our meteorologists know it, our road crews and state troopers know it, as do homeowners living along our creeks and rivers.

“My first steps at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Physics began 28 years ago in July 1993.”

“As I stroll down memory lane, I can’t think of a better spot to break ground for the new UAB Science and Engineering Complex – a place where research and education will flourish in unison for generations of current and future UAB students to come.”

The Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes full-time regular faculty members of University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in teaching. Award winners must have held faculty status at UAB for a minimum of three years and may receive the award only once in any three-year period.

Two Department of English faculty members are being recognized for their commitment to excellence in teaching and composition this year.