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UAB's transplant program celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018. UAB transplant services performed more than

transplants during that time.

The UAB Women & Infants Center houses the only Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Alabama.

UAB's annual economic impact.

UAB was ranked among the top

of universities worldwide in the U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023 "Best Global Universities" list.

UAB received a record

in research grants and awards for FY2022. Over the past five years, extramural sponsored funding at UAB has increased by nearly 50%.

A transformative gift of $10 million from UAB alumnus J. Frank Barefield Jr. will name the J. Frank Barefield, Jr. Department of Criminal Justice in the College of Arts and Sciences and the UAB J. Frank Barefield, Jr. Entrepreneurship Program in the Collat School of Business.

For the

straight year, UAB enrollment surpassed 21,500.

UAB was recognized as a 

Diversity Champion and Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award recipient by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.

Conde Nast Traveler named Birmingham as one of its "Best Places to Go in 2022."

MBA dual-degree programs offered through the Collat School of Business and other schools on campus focused on medicine, engineering and public health, including DMD/MBA, MD/MBA, and OD/MBA programs.

Live HealthSmart Alabama, the winner of UAB's first Grand Challenge, conducted community COVID-19 testing at 26 different sites in Jefferson County.

While UAB hosted The World Games from July 7-17, 2022, Campus Dining prepared 10,000 meals for up to 3,400 diners per day.

The O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB celebrated its

anniversary in June 2022 and announced a five-year, $27.5 million renewal of its core National Cancer Institute grant the same month.

In a breakthrough study published in January 2022, UAB researchers proved that genetically modified pig kidneys can be transplanted into a human.

Transformative gift, the largest in UAB history, established the UAB Heersink School of Medicine in 2021.

Forbes named UAB its

Best Large Employer for 2021.

programs in top 25, U.S. News & World Report 2023 "America's Best Graduate Schools" list.

The Equal Access Birmingham Clinic, run by UAB Heersink School of Medicine students, sees hundreds of patients per year in a dedicated space just off campus.

UAB ranks 33rd in federal research funding, based on 2021 figures, which is

among public universities. 

With research funding of more than $100M to date, Michael Saag, M.D., has helped transform AIDS from a deadly virus into a manageable chronic disease, and continues to work to end the epidemic altogether.

accredited school of public health in Alabama.

UAB was named America's

Best Employer for Diversity among colleges and universities by Forbes in 2021.

Protective Stadium, a state-of-the-art, 45,000-seat venue in downtown Birmingham, is the new home of UAB Blazers Football. The stadium opened in 2021.

The School of Dentistry averages

patient visits and 8,400 new patients served each year.

UAB has administered more than

COVID vaccinations to residents of all 67 counties in Alabama as of January 2022.

The emergency department at UAB Hospital-Highlands has been designated as a Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department, the only one in Alabama, the first in the Southeast and one of only 17 globally.

212

low-income and underinsured patients received free exams, glasses and other vision care from UAB School of Optometry faculty, staff and students in the Gift of Sight event in December 2021.

More than

people in Alabama's Black Belt communities have been treated by School of Optometry vision scientists, doctors and students since 2002.

In 2021, Collat School of Business students saved local working families more than

in commercial tax preparation fees by volunteering their time to prepare 1,325 tax returns for free. Their work secured more than $2.68 million in refunds for the families.

Cancer health disparity research funding in the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center has increased from $22 million to more than $63 million since 2007 as part of a partnership between UAB, Tuskegee University and Morehouse School of Medicine.

BlazerPulse, launched in 2019, has logged more than

hours of service by students and employees with 90+ community partners.

ArtPlay, the Alys Stephens Center’s home for arts education, has served more than

individuals in the Birmingham area through the arts since it launched in January 2011.

UAB is a founding partner in Innovation Depot, the largest high-tech incubator in the Southeast, which had an economic impact of $3 billion-plus over the past five years.

degree and certificate programs at UAB.

UAB's Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2021.

With more than 26,000 employees, UAB is Alabama's

single-site, non-federal employer.

students enrolled in the UAB Honors College in fall 2021, its largest-ever class.

UAB's fall 2021 freshman class has a 

mean ACT score.

UAB's research team includes

active externally funded investigators.

licenses and 19 patents issued in FY2021.

babies delivered at UAB Hospital in FY2021.

licensing income in FY2021 from UAB research

UAB Hospital is the

largest hospital in the United States, according to the Beckers Hospital Review 2021 rankings.

UAB Hospital was granted recognition as a Magnet-designated organization, a prestigious symbol of nursing excellence, for an unprecedented 5th consecutive time in 2019, becoming only the

hospital worldwide to achieve this distinction.

UAB Medicine provides care to people in every county in Alabama.

of UAB’s specialties ranked among the nation’s top 50 programs of their kind in the 2021-2022 Best Hospitals report from U.S. News & World Report.

UAB's new Proton Therapy Center is one of 36 in the U.S. and the

in Alabama.

UAB's newly renovated, expanded Infusion Therapy Clinic is the largest and

magnet-designated infusion therapy center in the state.

UAB ranked 

in the U.S., and in the top 12 worldwide, in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2019 Young University Rankings.

UAB's Master of Science in Health Administration program is ranked

in the country in the 2020 U.S. News Best Graduate School Rankings.

UAB celebrated its 

anniversary in 2019.

More than 6,100 participants in all

Alabama counties have enrolled in the UAB-led Alabama Genomic Health Initiative as of February 2020.

UAB ranked

in the world by Times Higher Education in 2020 for research and education efforts around health and well-being.

A record

UAB students and recent alumni have been selected to receive Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards in 2020.

University Hall, dedicated in August 2019, is the first LEED-certified building at UAB.

Honors Hall, which opened in August 2020, is one of the latest campus buildings to be LEED certified for its energy- and water-saving design.

McMahon Hall, which opened in spring 2021, houses more than 730 students and includes a dining hall seating roughly 170 students.

The first phase of UAB's Science-Engineering Complex is scheduled to open in February 2023.

of UAB students are from underrepresented groups.

UAB is among the

in the U.S. to offer clinical trial for the treatment of patients with severe COVID-19 using nitric oxide.

investment in UAB Libraries has made them model 21st century learning spaces.

The Technology Innovation Center, a new home for UAB's Cheaha supercomputer and IT services, opened in September 2021.

UAB is one of

inaugural NIH-designated Centers for AIDS Research.

lost pyramids and more than 1,000 settlements discovered by UAB space archaeologist Sarah Parcak using satellite imaging. Parcak has won the 2016 TED Prize for her pioneering work.

The UAB School of Dentistry is transforming oral health nationwide through its leadership of the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.

Special freezers developed by UAB engineers are in orbit aboard the International Space Station.

A ridge on Mars is named for UAB physicist Thomas Wdowiak, Ph.D., who played an important role in NASA's missions to the Red Planet.

Return on investment from research in the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. With base funding of $10 million, Cancer Center investigators receive $140 million in grants and contracts.

In 2019, UAB was selected as one of 

national Udall Centers of Excellence in Parkinson's disease.

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has designated UAB as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University, among 65 higher education institutions nationwide to receive this prestigious honor. 

Scientists recruited to work in the new Altec/Styslinger Genomic Medicine & Data Sciences Building will have a projected

economic impact on the Birmingham area.

Blazer Kitchen volunteers have served more than 100,000 meals and donated

hours of their time.

UAB employees and students have built six Habitat Houses, volunteering 15,800 hours

Engineering student Ophelia Johnson won the prestigious Marshall Scholarship in Nov. 2015. UAB produced both a Marshall and Rhodes Scholar in the space of a year.

The student-led Green and Gold Fund manages more than $500,000 in assets.

UAB is home to one of

World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization collaborating centers in the United States focused on nursing and midwifery.

UAB's recording studio is one of a handful in the country to feature the AVID System 5 Fusion Console, giving students professional-level experience.

The UAB Gospel Choir, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015, has performed sold-out concerts around the world.

The $48.5-million Hill Student Center includes a 276-seat theater, multiple dining options and more in 160,000+ square feet of space.

The Mock Trial, Ethics Bowl and Bioethics Bowl teams in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences have all won

championships.

Birmingham was

on Zagat's "Most Exciting Food Cities in America" list in 2017.

There are

registered student organizations at UAB.

UAB's campus covers 100 city blocks and is just steps away from top Birmingham attractions, including Railroad Park, Regions Field and nationally famous dining options.

U.S. city on the Travel Channel's list of 11 "Next Great Destinations" for 2016

UAB has one of the only Ph.D.-level medical sociology programs in the world.

UAB's research supercomputer offers

teraflops of processing power, making it one of the five fastest at institutions in the Southeast.

In 2016, UAB was the first Alabama university to launch a

Internet connection

UAB Hospital received the 2019 Women’s Choice Award "America's Best Hospital" designations for five practice areas: breast care, heart care, cancer care, obstetrics and bariatric surgery.

UAB offers the 

Health Physics and Nuclear Medicine Technology programs in Alabama.

UAB's new Master of Science in Healthcare Simulation program, launched in fall 2018, is one of only two in the country that does not require a specific previous degree for entry.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration has invested $300,000 in early-stage commercialization development of 11 projects by UAB faculty and staff.

An ongoing living donor kidney transplant chain at UAB is the world's longest. The chain of surgeries has given more than 

people so far the gift of life.

listeners in North Central Alabama tune in weekly to NPR affiliate WBHM on UAB's campus. The station celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2016; it went on the air on Dec. 5, 1976.

The UAB Institute for Arts in Medicine has served more than 61,000 patients, families and staff members at UAB — and more than 15,000 people at partner sites such as Children’s of Alabama, CARES and the Exceptional Foundation since 2013.

original letters from Florence Nightingale are on display at the UAB School of Nursing.

UAB's campus is home to more than 4,400 trees, earning the Arbor Day Foundation's Tree Campus USA designation for five consecutive years.

The Campaign for UAB surpassed $1 billion raised in November 2018. 

The employee-led UAB Benevolent Fund works with more than

local nonprofit organizations.

In the decade from 2003-2013, UAB's Health Administration program was one of the nation's leaders in the number of black doctoral recipients graduated, according to a 2017 study.

UAB has

faculty members elected as fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.