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The general surgery residents in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Surgery who have trained with transplant surgeon Mark Deierhoi, M.D., director of UAB’s Renal Transplant Program, marvel at many things about one of their most influential surgical teachers.
Eleven teams involving hundreds of collegiate students from the United States and Europe are putting the finishing touches on highly energy-efficient, innovation-packed solar houses for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham increased enrollment this fall, with record numbers of both total students and freshmen for the second year in a row.
Built on the iron and steel industries after the Civil War, Alabama’s most populous city has evolved into a modern mecca of cool that displays its turbulent past, classic architecture and culinary chops with style.
This shiny new public space opened in 2014 to house art collections for the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
“On behalf of the company, I would like to thank our scientific advisors and all of our collaborators at the UAB who helped prepare and submit this IND."
They discovered study participants who maintained a healthy body weight over the course of the study were 41 percent less likely to have an increasing blood pressure with age.
From purchasing school supplies to making sure kids eat a healthy breakfast, parents play a major role in helping set the stage for success in the classroom. But some parents may be overlooking one critical tool for academic success: routine eye exams.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham and the city secured a $6.5 million grant to train over 925 people for technology jobs. Our first graduates are already in the workforce.
UAB Hospital was cited for opening a transitional care clinic inside the hospital to serve as a medical home for uninsured heart failure patients without a primary care provider.
The state-of-the-art $39.5 million building, which will be located on the corner of 10th Avenue South and 14th Street South, is a result of the rapid growth of UAB's undergraduate and graduate programs.
University of Alabama at Birmingham professor Sarah Parcak and associate professor Gregory Mumford have been awarded the 2017 Antiquity Prize by Antiquity, a peer-reviewed journal of world archaeology.
8. Birmingham — Its biggest industries are banking and insurance, health care, and logistics and transportation. Major employers include the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Regions Financial Corp., Honda and Mercedes-Benz.
The scarcity of life-saving organs for transplants has raised hopes for substitute organs from pigs, which have a similar anatomy to humans.
Researchers have identified a mechanism that leads to bone loss in older adults, an advance that may help develop therapeutics to treat the age-associated bone loss condition.
A major health problem in older people is age-associated osteoporosis — the thinning of bone and the loss of bone density that increases the risk of fractures.
UAB posted total enrollment of 20,902 for the semester – reaching its goal of topping 20,000 students by 2018 a year early.
The 160,000-square-foot building is expected to open in the fall of 2019.
These motivated students began assembling their highly energy-efficient, solar houses this morning at 8 a.m. and will spend the next nine days completing their one-of-a-kind houses.
University of Alabama engineering students along with four peer institutions in the state will take part in a German engineering exchange program.
New York-based Ballet Hispánico will stop by the Alys Stephens Center on Friday night with a mixed-repertory program of works by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Michelle Manzanales and Tania Pérez-Salas.