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This summer, 1,775 students will graduate and nearly 1,000 will walk in two commencement exercises in UAB’s Bartow Arena, which will be streamed online.
The O’Jays, Mutts Gone Nuts, and Buckets N Boards Comedy Percussion Show are the latest artists and acts announced by the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
A first-of-its-kind endowment from art patrons Lydia Cheney and Jim Sokol will ensure the well-being of UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts and contemporary art for years to come.
The 2023 Blazer Football kickoff event is free and open to the public. 
Meet and take pictures with Blaze on the UAB Campus Green, and enjoy water slides, face painting, a petting zoo, pony carousel and more. Tickets are just $5.
Selected an AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers competition winner, Doug Barrett’s design, a mix of type and an illustration of the sun, is the cover for Department of Art and Art History colleague Douglas Pierre Baulos’ book “Things shouldn’t be so hard.”
Bring blankets and picnics to enjoy the concert of traditional and popular patriotic songs at 7 p.m., then watch the fireworks show from atop Red Mountain at 9 p.m.
The UAB Volleyball program is offering two opportunities for experienced volleyball players of a variety of ages to take their game to the next level.
The Health Promoting University Presidents Panel was just one part of the larger U.S. Health Promoting Campuses Network Summit, which brought together over 170 participants from universities across the country.
Join UAB physicians and members of the cervical cancer community for an open discussion on the cervical cancer experience.
Four seating levels will be available for the 7 p.m. performance, which is set for the BJCC Concert Hall. Tickets range from $38-$78 and are on sale now. 
Attendees can learn about how to better optimize their performance and avoid injuries, new research in running medicine, nutrition, mental health, and more.
Music from The World Games 2022, including the theme song “Hope of Alabama” and other orchestral works written, arranged and produced by UAB University Professor of Music Henry Panion III, Ph.D., was recognized for excellence in video and television.
After being burned in an explosion three years ago, Delrico Gibson thought he would never use his hands again. Now, see the artworks he created for his first responders, surgeons, therapists and caregivers in the exhibition “Strings of Gratitude.”
Drawing from his own personal experiences of harassment and racial profiling at the hands of law enforcement, “The Watcher and the Watchman” addresses the national discussion regarding racism and abuse of force by police. 
Turner’s new work on show at UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts references the misguided tradition of drinking gold to stay youthful and stories of mythological, historical and literary female outcasts.
Join the University of Alabama at Birmingham Baseball head coach, Casey Dunn, and the UAB Baseball Coaching Staff as they host their 2023 Summer baseball camps.
To cultivate interest in science, Camp CSI: Birmingham was created to present high school students with the opportunity to experience the techniques and technology of a real crime scene investigator.
The famous drummer, singer, songwriter, author, humanitarian and icon Sheila E., whose No. 1 dance hits “The Glamorous Life” and “A Love Bizarre” still resonate, is a member of the Escovedo musical family.
The annual event will feature live music, fiesta-themed food and a silent auction with the proceeds funding cancer research.
This Earth Month, recycle glass items such as beverage containers and drinking glasses with UAB Sustainability at the Glass Recycling Day.
The UAB Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center presents the 2023 UAB Health Equity Research Symposium, in person for the first time since 2019.
ArtPlay provides opportunities for students ages 6-18 to discover the artist within through musical theater and visual arts camps, all in an encouraging and welcoming environment.
Students of peace, justice and human rights at UAB will join global thought leaders in the two-day, immersive event — focused on the pursuit of peace at all levels of society.
The Department of Biology and the Alabama Audubon will host Harvard ornithologist Scott Edwards, Ph.D., for a seminar titled “Bicycling, Birding and #BLM Across America in a Summer of Chaos.” 
Are we already in the woods? This production of Sondheim’s beloved play looks at the dangers society has created with sets inspired by Birmingham’s Sloss Furnaces.

For “April is for the Arts,” the UAB College of Arts and Sciences highlights the extraordinary talent from across the college’s fine art academic units for a month of events.

Registration is free and open to the public and will close on Friday, April 14.

The BFA exhibition is one of the UAB Department of Art and Art History’s premier events, culminating with a free closing reception Friday, April 28.

The UAB Institute for Human Rights presents W. Jake Newsome, Ph.D., whose book traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a global symbol of pride.

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