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Miss UAB 2013 Scholarship Pageant to be held Oct. 31

More than $4,250 in scholarships will be awarded as 20 young women, all from Alabama, vie for the title.

Innovative community health projects win funding

Four winners in the first Community Health Innovation Awards will share $50,000 to fund implementation of their projects.

UAB study reveals novel treatment option for triple-negative breast cancer

A combination of cancer drugs showed promise in killing triple-negative breast cancer cells.

Facebook donates recovered money to UAB cybercrime group

UAB team rewarded for helping stop social media botnet and others; Facebook donates $250,000 of money recovered from spammers to CIA|JFR

Carlo honored by American Academy of Pediatrics

Advances led by UAB and Children’s of Alabama neonatologist Wally Carlo have helped millions of infants worldwide

Dancing with the Silver Stars returns for Season 3 on Nov. 5

Dancing with the Silver Stars, an event that benefits UAB's Acute Care for Elders, will take place Nov. 5

Get global and groove with Todd Green’s “World Music Adventure”

Enjoy a musical journey with instruments from around the globe when ArtPlay presents Todd Green in a show for families and a free Global Fest performance.

Film premiere to honor Veterans Day: “A French Village Recalls 1944”

UAB to premiere faculty member’s film about a French village’s commemoration of a fallen WWII soldier from Alabama in honor of Veteran’s Day.

Virtuoso trumpeter Ryan Anthony to teach, perform at UAB

UAB Music will present a trumpet clinic for students and a free recital for the public by Ryan Anthony on Nov. 12.

UAB hosting international film conference

Three major directors will be on hand to screen their films during the event, to be held Nov. 1-3.

UAB’s black male retention program helping students beat the odds

UAB’s BMEN program helps black male students graduate at a rate 20 percent above the national average.

UAB students, professor win $47,000 design grant for Cahaba River project

Graphic design team’s work on identity campaign earns funding for creation of a book and video about the river.

Warren receives national education award

Mary Warren has received Envision's "Excellence in Education" Award

Samlowski to head family medicine program at UAB’s Huntsville campus

Ralph Samlowski, M.D., has been named the Regional Chair of Family Medicine and Family Medicine Residency Program Director at the UAB School of Medicine Huntsville Regional Medical Campus.

Cognitive training helps adults with HIV, UAB study finds

UAB research shows that brain-training exercises can improve processing speed and the ability to perform everyday activities

UAB research team sets sights on new era in neuroprotection

Experimental drugs, while still years away, move closer to human clinical trials in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease

Grow your own food: UAB may offer garden plots on campus

Grow your own food — on campus.

UAB Distinguished Professor David B. Allison elected to Institute of Medicine

World-renowned obesity expert becomes one of nearly 30 past and present UAB researchers to attain one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

UAB Surgical Physician Assistant students hold first White Coat Ceremony

Long a mainstay of medical schools, the ceremony emphasizes responsibility to patients.

Ladies, don’t let stress make you sick; how to fight it and win

UAB experts say women experience stress differently from men. That can take a physical toll, but simple changes will help.