Announcements
Graduate School appoints new associate dean
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Stacey S. Cofield, Associate Professor of Public Health, as the Associate Dean for Recruitment, Retention, & Diversity.
Read moreUAB Graduate School introduces new LEAD certificate in Leadership and Professional Development
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Graduate School received approval from the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees to launch a new graduate certificate in leadership and professional development. The LEAD Graduate Certificate provides individuals opportunities to gain leadership skills that are in high demand among employers and professional school admissions teams.
Read moreWant to Earn a CIRTL Teaching Certificate? Apply for a Tuition Scholarship!
CIRTL@UAB is offering tuition scholarships for CIRTL Practitioner Teaching Certificate. Scholarships cover in-state tuition for 1 Practitioner Course. The application deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, November 14, 2016.
Read moreRecord 19,535 Students #ChooseUAB - 7,166 of Those Graduate Students
Enrollment at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, bolstered by record recruitment and retention gains, increased by 1,202 students year-over-year to a record-high 19,535 for the fall 2016 semester, including a 24.7 percent increase in the freshman class.
Read moreHudsonAlpha and UAB Awarded NIH Training Grant
The University of Alabama at Birmingham and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have been awarded a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award to train postdoctoral fellows who have earned an M.D. and/or a Ph.D. The UAB-HudsonAlpha Genomic Medicine Research Training Program is designed to recruit trainees from various disciplines and provide mentorship and clinical research training in genomic medicine. At HudsonAlpha, the program will provide up to two years of support for postdoctoral trainees who choose to learn and work at the Institute.
Read moreUAB Graduate and Professional Programs Ranked in Top 20 by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report ranks a number of University of Alabama at Birmingham schools and programs among the nation’s best. The latest rankings were released in the 2017 edition of “Best Graduate Schools” guidebook, available online at www.usnews.com.
Read moreUAB Graduate School Rolls Out Mentoring & Leadership Certificate Program
At a research-intensive university, few skills are more strategic – and sought-after – than mentoring and leadership, which affect productivity, diversity, and the effectiveness of instruction from the undergraduate to the post-doctoral level and beyond (see articles "Reaching Gender Equity in Science: The Importance of Role Models And Mentors" or "The Merits of Training Mentors").
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