Student Achievement
CIRTL@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.
Read moreAdvocating for Science Policy in Washington, D.C.
I was selected to visit Washington, D.C. to represent UAB at the three-and-a-half day AAAS CASE (Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering) Workshop. This workshop was created to provide students who are interested in learning about Congress, the federal budget process and effective science communication an introduction into all of these topics as well as a deep dive into how science policy is enacted.
Read more50 Awardees Honored at 2016 CIRTL Awards Ceremony
50 awardees were honored on Wednesday April 27 at the 2016 CIRTL Awards Ceremony. To prepare for careers in STEM and Social Sciences, these graduate students and postdocs from across campus have undertaken training to develop their college teaching skills through UAB’s Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning.
Read moreNursing PhD Students Bray, Mumbower and Pavicevic Named 2016 Jonas Scholars
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing has selected Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD) students Leigh Ann Bray, MSN, RN, CNL, Rachael Mumbower, BSN, RN and Zoran Pavicevic, BSN, RN, MPH, MD, as its 2016-18 Jonas Scholars.
Read moreUAB graduate Student Honored as Woman of Excellence in Her Field of Study
Elizabeth Bevan, a doctoral student in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is one of 90 doctoral students selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
Read more11 UAB Graduate Students Selected as Inaugural Class of Alabama Schweitzer Fellows
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship today announced the selection of its inaugural class of Alabama Schweitzer Fellows, including 11 graduate students from University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Read moreCIRTL Awards Ceremony to Honor All Certificate Earners on April 27
When Meredith Henry enrolled in a College Teaching course as part of her professional development at UAB Graduate School, she didn’t expect to one day conduct research in her classroom as a CIRTL Scholar.
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