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UAB’s Collat School of Business strategically expanding programs for students, faculty and community
As UAB’s strategic planning process continues, top Collat priorities include stimulating growth, student success and financial sustainability, impacting economic development, building partnerships in the community, supporting faculty and staff through professional development, and enhancing facilities and technology.
Bradley Barnes, Ph.D., will provide executive leadership and coordinate a comprehensive enrollment management unit to develop strategies focused on student recruitment, admissions, retention and persistence to graduation.
John R. Jones III, Ph.D., will serve on the president’s senior administrative cabinet and work closely with the Office of the Provost to provide leadership and direction to the Division of Student Affairs.
Incoming doctoral students earn prestigious fellowships to pursue degrees in UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Enjoy free summer band concerts outdoors on campus and a performance from the UAB Gospel Choir this summer.
UAB’s ArtPlay will join Project1VOICE and companies around the world in readings of the play on June 15 to preserve the legacy and tradition of American theater, especially of African-American playwrights.
Panion’s arrangements of the works “People Get Ready,” “This May Be the Last Time,” “Amazing Grace” and “If I Had a Hammer” will be performed in concert June 6.
Initial results of fundraising efforts far exceeding historical financial support significantly improve the Athletic Department’s financial picture, make possible the return of football, bowling and rifle.
The legacy of the late Distinguished Professor Charles Alford, M.D., will be honored with the third annual memorial lecture, and a visit from four of the world’s top ID scholars.
A new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation multifunder initiative aims to double the number of nurses with doctorates
Vision services backed by UAB’s Callahan Eye Hospital now available in Talladega and Sylacauga.
Seven Department of Art and Art History students drew silhouette portraits of each child and invited them to fill the silhouettes with color, then printed the final artwork onto canvas.
Pioneering cancer research at UAB will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.
ASC donors Mac Fairley and Jim Stroud have reserved a block of tickets to the June 7 show for veterans from the Birmingham VA Medical Center.
Birmingham’s renaissance is ready to spread into its neighborhoods, thanks to a group of UAB Collat School of Business students who developed a growth plan for the city’s Sixth District. They share some of their smart solutions, which city leaders may implement, and describe how they developed the proposals in UAB Magazine.
Vestavia Hills High School science teacher and UAB alumna Jennifer Brown will serve as the official spokesperson and representative for teachers in Alabama for the next year.
Many students successfully complete the music technology program; but only a select few also complete the AVID certification training, and even fewer attain certification.
Three-year, $2 million PCORI grant will give UAB caregivers an opportunity to develop surgical protocols that enhance coordination of care and improve quality of life for women with endometrial cancer.
Free summer community English classes to begin June 4.
Sessions for business executives will give participants hands-on innovation experience.
As many as 88,000 people around Birmingham have little access to healthy, affordable food. But UAB public health students are digging for solutions by working the land at Jones Valley Teaching Farm and helping out at Magic City Harvest. They share some fresh knowledge from the field in UAB Magazine.
Students and faculty from UAB share their financial savvy with students in seven Birmingham middle schools.
UAB faculty and graduate students launch relief effort for Nepal.
Following a national search led by a 19-member search committee made up of students, faculty, staff, alumni and community supporters, the University of Alabama at Birmingham has announced that Mark Ingram will be the institution’s athletic director.
An on-demand, open-to-the-public broadcast of Leadercast will focus on the theme of bravery in leadership.
Gift of $500,000 by leader in the dental lab industry includes computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing software for milling dental prostheses and completing restorations.
Sophomore Rebecca Hyde heading to American University in Dubai after winning Clinton scholarship.
The exhibition, opening May 12, will showcase 22 works by emerging sound artists from around the world.
UAB received the Gold Fit-Friendly Worksite and Worksite Innovation Award recognition.
While mom Kirsten Woods was working toward an online degree at UAB from Texas, daughter Shannon Woods earned her degree on campus. They will walk together at Saturday’s commencement ceremony.