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  • Blazer Bridge Fund continues encouraging innovative discoveries; announces 2024 winners
    Blazer Bridge Fund provides financial support to innovative ideas and inventions by the UAB community, encouraging advanced discovery. 
  • UAB led research tests stability of 3D-printed super alloy under extremes
    Vohra is leading the Center for Additively Manufactured Complex Systems under Extremes at UAB in advancing understanding of 3D-printed materials when subjected to extremes of pressures, temperatures and high-velocity impacts.
  • Light pollution is being tackled through new lab, Campus SHINE at UAB
    The University of Alabama at Birmingham is addressing light pollution with new Campus SHINE at UAB program.