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Chief of trauma surgery at UAB honored for commitment to safety and quality.
Nearly half of people living with HIV in the United States will be 50 or older by 2015, which places more emphasis on cognitive function research.
Michael Saag, M.D., helped transform the deadliest virus in human history into a manageable chronic disease, and he is now receiving a top honor.
UAB Associate Professor Cynthia Ryan will be honored for her community work and advocacy.
Cash awards were given for best oral and poster presentations at the 9th Annual Health Disparities Research Symposium.
Prestigious awards program honors junior faculty who excel in research and education.
Mervyn Sterne Library Director Jerry Stephens, Ph.D., announced he will retire May 31. Stephens, who first joined the library in 1974 when it was a part of the former University College, is only the second director for UAB's main academic library. A national search for dean of libraries is underway.
The American Board of Emergency Medicine has created a new subspecialty for emergency physicians, and UAB’s Nafziger is a first to earn board certification.
UAB researchers find comparable efficacy in two transvaginal surgical approaches for apical prolapse
Landmark research for the surgical management of apical vaginal prolapse reveals comparable efficacy of sacrospinous ligament fixation and uterosacral ligament suspension, and that perioperative treatment is not indicated.
This annual recognition honors the significant achievements of full-time faculty, staff and students toward developing a more culturally diverse, competent and inclusive university community.
The American Board of Urology names UAB professor of surgery, Children's of Alabama Chief of Pediatric Urology a trustee.
Moellinger was presented Nursing Scientist Award before an international group of more than 1,000 medical experts.
Learn about Lou Gehrig’s disease at the second UAB Neuroscience Café at the Hoover Library.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation awarded anthropology professor Chris Kyle coveted grant.
University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor of English Kieran Quinlan, Ph.D., has been named the winner of the 2014 Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences.
A prestigious textbook on vasculitis, a disorder of the blood vessels, was edited by three members of the UAB faculty.
The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees recently appointed Murat M. Tanik, Ph.D., to the Wallace R. Bunn Chair of Telecommunications in the UAB School of Engineering.
Information and Organization recently published a research paper on innovation in firm-sponsored OSS communities from UAB Assistant Professor Paul Di Gangi, Ph.D.
A research paper on detecting human mood using sensors in mobile devices from postdoctoral fellow Munirul Haque, Ph.D., was selected as best paper at a recent international conference
His expertise includes positive clinical psychology, strength-based resilience, post-traumatic growth, multicultural psychotherapy and positive education.
UAB's James Rimmer is the first researcher focusing on the fitness of people with disabilities to be named to the President's Council on Fitness.
Cecilia Graham, P.T., Ph.D., has been awarded the American Physical Therapy Association Education Section’s Polly Cerasoli Lectureship Award.
TEDx Birmingham — Rediscover the Magic of Birmingham” — will be held Saturday, March 1 and will feature live talks in the spirit of the TED experience.
Kelly K. Nichols, O.D., MPH, Ph.D., one of the world's leading vision scientists in the area of dry eye disease, has been named dean of the UAB School of Optometry, effective June 25, 2014.
UAB will host a scientific and community symposium in honor of World Rare Disease Day
The annual award is to recognize outstanding papers related to environmental health sciences and public health that meet the aims, scope and high standards of this journal.
The paper analyzed articles published in the scientific and popular press to separate myths from evidence-supported facts when it comes to obesity.
The conference is a comprehensive postgraduate course for all those involved in the care of neonates, children and young adults with cardiovascular disease.
The Ann Dial McMillan Endowed Lectureship in Family and Child Health is a unique interdisciplinary lectureship designed to tap into and promote public health breakthroughs relevant to family and children’s health.
You might know that sex sells, but did you know that the sex of cells is important in biomedical research?