UAB Media Studies students learn how to make documentary films focusing on communities and issues they care about in a semester.

Twenty faculty members across multiple departments in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences wrote or edited 23 books last year.

During her three-decade tenure at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Stella Cocoris established a legacy as a visionary builder. Through her efforts, she contributed to UAB’s unprecedented growth and introduced new strategies and tools that continue to support enrollment efforts and student success to this day. Her dedication—and innovative ideas—permeated the university, impacting staff and students alike.

Experience the arts on campus and in the community with this showcase of performances and events featuring students in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Having received the permission of immediate family, I wanted to announce the sad news of the passing of the founding Director of the University Honors Program and Professor of English Emerita, Ada Long.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences is set to host its spring 2024 Haddin Forums.

“What is dorm life like in the United States?” “How often do you get home to family?” “Do you also speak Russian and Georgian?” “Do you drink coffee?” These were the kinds of questions that came up this fall between students at UAB and students at Akaki Tsereteli State University in the Republic of Georgia.

Lilian Mina, Ph.D., director of the writing program in the Department of English, shares how she has used generative AI tools in her upper-level Professional Writing course this semester.

Assistant Professor Meagan Malone, Ph.D., teaches First-Year Composition and 300-level Professional Writing courses in the Department of English. Here is how she reworked her classes this fall to incorporate generative AI tools.

More than 1,900 students will graduate, and 1,179 students are expected to walk in the ceremonies, which will be held Friday morning and afternoon in Bartow Arena.

The competition is an official preliminary to the Miss Alabama and Miss America competitions. Johnson, captain of the UAB Blazerettes, also won the Spirit Award.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of English is meeting the need to modernize writing to the digital age with a new major titled, “Writing and Media.” This degree program is designed to take an ancient form of communication and make it work professionally in a landscape dominated by digital content.

The dedication to collaborative efforts shown by Chris Minnix, Ph.D., director of the Blazer Core Curriculum, has earned him the 2023 Sam Brown Bridge Builder Award.

The new degree programs provide students with even more options to learn from world-renowned faculty and researchers.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences is set to host its fall 2023 Haddin Forums.

This is the first complete overhaul of UAB’s core curriculum requirements since the university was founded, focusing on providing competencies critical for the 21st century that will better equip students to meet their lifelong goals.

Six students have been named Gilman Scholars and two students received Freeman-Asia scholarships to study in Europe and Asia.

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

For “April is for the Arts,” the UAB College of Arts and Sciences highlights the extraordinary talent from across the college’s fine art academic units for a month of events.

The workshop will train students on a variety of creative writing skills and will culminate in published pieces in the workshop’s yearly anthology.