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Grad 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 moreThe 3MT® Comes to UAB
Fancy hearing an 80,000 word thesis explained in less than 180 seconds? Research students from across the globe are doing just that in preparation for the Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®). Established by The University of Queensland (UQ) in 2008, 3MT® is now held in at least 200 universities across more than 18 countries worldwide.
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 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 more15 UAB Faculty Honored for Excellence in Mentorship
Fifteen faculty members were honored April 20 at a ceremony recognizing the University of Alabama at Birmingham's outstanding mentors. The 2016 Graduate School Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentorship Ceremony drew more than 120 people to the Hill Student Center Ballroom to celebrate the honoree's achievements.
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 moreMentoring: The Good, the Bad, and the Lucky
I have a reoccurring memory from graduate school three years ago when I earned my doctorate in Integrated Biomedical Science. It’s Wednesday afternoon at about 3:45. My lab members are rushing to collect their things and print off last minute graphs to show our mentor. But instead of shuffling down the hall to a conference room, we pile into cars and drive to the local Irish Pub. Yes, our lab meetings were held at a pub. Yes, we had beer and fried deliciousness (fries, cheese, onion rings, pickles, if they fried it, we ate it). And yes, we actually did talk about our data and have scientific discussions at these meetings.
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