Student Achievement
Congratulations to 2017 3MT Semifinalists
UAB Graduate School hosted its 2017 3 Minute Thesis preliminary competition September 26 in the Shelby Building. Student participants were divided into 7 sessions over the day, and winners were selected from a panel of judges from across campus. Below are the session winners. These winners will move forward to the semifinals which will take place Thursday October 5, 2017 in the Hill Student Center at 10 a.m.
Read moreCongratulations to the Summer 2017 Graduates
The UAB Graduate School hosted its Summer 2017 Doctoral Hooding Saturday, August 12 at the Alys Stephens Center.
Read moreUAB Ph.D. Student Takes Summer Studies to Morocco
Roman Johnson, a Ph.D. student studying medical sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to study Arabic this summer in Morocco.
Read moreMeet the 2017 Say It In 6 winners
Tell us your story in six words: that’s what UAB undergraduate, graduate, professional (Medicine, Dentistry and Optometry) and nondegree students and postdoctoral fellows were challenged to do for UAB Graduate School’s inaugural Say It In 6 competition. Participants submitted an image and six words depicting any story they wanted to tell –about their life, their experiences, things they love or have learned. The possibilities were endless!
Read moreCongratulations to UAB Graduate Students on National, School Honors
The Office of the Provost hosted its 2017 UAB Honors Convocation Thursday, March 30 at the Alys Stephens Center. Nearly 200 students received national or school level awards, including 97 graduate students. The Graduate School would like to congratulate all the 2017 award recipients! Master's and doctoral student honorees are listed below.
Read moreUAB Graduate Student Wins Regional Three Minute Thesis Competition
Kathryn Henley, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, took home first place at the 3MT Regional Competition at the Conference for Southern Graduate Schools in Annapolis, Maryland, on March 5. Henley competed against students from 45 universities.
Read moreCIRTL@UAB Awards 12 Scholarships, Plans Awards Ceremony
Congratulations to the following recipients of CIRTL@UAB Teaching Practitioner Certificate scholarships. Funding was made possible by the Great Lakes Education Fund.
Read moreDoctoral Student Named UAB School of Education’s Inaugural Cramer Morgan Fellow
Joy Barros, a Pensacola, Florida, native and graduate student pursing a doctorate in heath education/health promotion, has been named the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s inaugural Cramer Morgan Fellow.
Read moreGrad Student Government President Attends AAAS CASE Workshop
Imagine this, you’ve worked for months to submit an application for an NIH grant for your research. After all your hard work, you received the grant, great. Now it’s time to put the research dollars to work. You’ve conducted your research and publish it in a good journal. You’re doing good science and moving the field forward. You’re helping people.
Read moreMSHA Student Javeen Thomas Wins National Scholarship
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions student Javeen Thomas has been named a winner of the Albert W. Dent Graduate Student Scholarship by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
Read moreUAB Doctoral Student Using Satellites to Find Precious Metals on Earth
Originally featured on UAB The Mix.
There is a lot of money in space mining — theoretically. A company called Planetary Resources estimates that a single asteroid, 2011 UW158, which whizzed past our own planet last year, holds some $5 trillion in platinum.
Read moreCauffman Receives ACSM Travel Award
Samuel Cauffman, a graduate student in the UAB School of Education, is the recipient of the 2016 Steven M. Horvath Travel Award by the American College of Sports Medicine. Cauffman is pursuing a master’s degree in exercise physiology in the Department of Human Studies.
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