How Diet Impacts Cortisol: The Stress Hormone Connection

What’s on your plate could be shaping your stress response. Discover how anti-inflammatory foods and mindful eating can help regulate cortisol and support long-term wellbeing. Because food is a foundational wellbeing determinant, everyday nutrition choices affect individual-level stress.

New Mural Unveiled in Chemistry Building

Campus spaces shape how we feel, connect, and belong. “Reconcile Peace,” joins a growing series of public art installations around campus through the Live HealthSmart Alabama (LHSA) Stairway to Wellness Initiative.

UAB Waives Application Fees Oct. 6–10

Reducing barriers to entry is a systems-level approach to increase student wellbeing and build a healthier campus. Learn how UAB is making access to education more attainable—supporting student wellbeing from the very first step.

New program supports better student outcomes

When UAB School of Nursing (SON) set out to improve student retention and graduation rates, they employed an HPU (Health Promoting University) approach.

Celebrating 25 years: NCHPAD recognizes milestone achievements in adaptive health promotion

The National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability (NCHPAD) moved from the University of Illinois at Chicago to UAB in 1999.

UAB Sustainability continually exemplifies HPU tenets, and the latest example addresses light pollution

Michelle Wooten, Ph.D., assistant professor of astronomy in the Department of Physics, launched Campus SHINE in 2024 in collaboration with UAB Facilities to assess the current state of on-campus lighting.