Displaying items by tag: school of health professions

A new study from UAB could provide the first known data about the impact of dietary patterns on dietary adherence and cardiometabolic risk factors in adults with spinal cord injury.
The three-year grant will provide graduate scholars with stipends and other financial and educational support to pursue training in disparities research.
An interdisciplinary effort among the College of Arts and Sciences and several schools across campus results in a $2.5 million grant.
UAB’s School of Health Professions Junior Advisory Board is hosting its annual Dodging for Degrees dodgeball tournament Oct. 11.
Play is an important part of child development, and a UAB student research project shows that disparities exist between play spaces depending on where one lives.
The new Alabama Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education is part of the American Council on Education’s Women’s Network, a national system of state networks focused on advancing and supporting women in higher education.
Foods high in fats have long been put into the “unhealthy” category by nutrition experts, but UAB researchers believe this may have been all wrong, all along.
A series of fascinating studies at Harvard University showed that many people respond positively to placebo pills — even when they are told that the pills don't have any active ingredients. Now researchers at UAB have partnered with a Harvard scientist to test these "open-label" placebos for the first time in cancer survivors.
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.
The answer to that question could help zoos solve a growing fertility crisis — and offer new insight into the lives of these majestic creatures. Find out how UAB researchers, working with scientists from the Smithsonian Institution, are exploring two ways to measure body fat in African elephants.
The VORLab will study the effects of injuries sustained in football and other contact sports on balance, eye movement and vision to improve diagnostic tools and promote recovery.

UAB’s Chiasera cited as an emerging university leader by being named Fellow of the American Council on Education.

Curtis A. Carver Jr., Ph.D., comes to UAB from the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, where he served as vice chancellor and chief information officer.
School of Health Professions’ master’s in health administration program moves up three spots to No. 2 in the United States.
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