Four individuals were honored with a 2022 Padma Award during a virtual ceremony Thursday, March 24. The Padma Awards — previously the Outstanding Women Awards — are sponsored by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Commission on the Status of Women.
The winners include:
- Taylor Burns, undergraduate student majoring in economics and mathematics.
- Shyla K. Fields, director of the Office of Identity, Inclusion and Collective Conscience in the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine.
- Tina Kempin Reuter, Ph.D., director of the UAB Institute for Human Rights and associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences departments of Political Science and Public Administration, Anthropology, and Social Work.
- Farah Lubin, Ph.D., associate professor and endowed scholar in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, director of the UAB Neuroscience Roadmap Scholar Program, and co-director for research of IRACDA-Mentored Experiences in Research, Instruction and Teaching Program.
The Padma Award recognizes those who go above and beyond in support of underrepresented populations and acknowledge the good work, extraordinary contributions and accomplishments of UAB faculty, staff and students.