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Kasman and Walker are music majors in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Music, and both are in the Honors College’s University Honors Program.
Every year, AMG presents 30 Alabama women with the Women Who Shape the State award.

The case competition provides master’s-level students an opportunity to put what they have learned in the classroom into real-life practice.

A UAB surgeon has received the Congress of Neurological Surgeons’ most prestigious award.
A UAB School of Optometry student has been selected to present innovative glaucoma research at American Academy of Optometry’s 2018 meeting.
Dawson, a junior majoring in neuroscience, also won the Interview and Talent awards and was awarded $2,900 in scholarships.
Lindeman was honored at a ceremony Oct. 3 in Chicago.
As a fellow, Shelburne will complete “The Castaways,” a long-form narrative journalism piece about aging men serving life without parole for nonviolent crimes.
Pavela will serve as the chair-elect and then chair of the Ethics Section for the American Public Health Association.
UAB student selected as a finalist for coveted scholarship to study abroad.
Vanessa Vega to present research proposal on improving multicultural preparedness in teacher education programs at international conference.
The Blazer Male Excellence Network peer mentoring program encourages black men to open up to the college experience and build meaningful relationships.
National Cancer Institute award gives a UAB researcher the opportunity to develop programs that battle the long-term effects of treating childhood cancer.
Rodney Tucker, M.D., will provide primary care to patients once a week at the Magic City Wellness Center.
The winners of the Mr. and Ms. UAB competition will each receive $2,500 scholarships and serve as ambassadors of UAB.
An optometrist receives a grant to study a disorder that causes blinding and currently has no treatment or preventive measures.
English professor awarded for book written on the depth of legal knowledge within 17th-century literature.
Berkowitz comes to UAB after 25 years at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Long time UAB hospital employee Wendy Walters, a clinical ethics consultant, is a finalist for a prestigious national compassionate caregiver award.
The director of UAB’s Division of Infectious Diseases has been named to the board of a national health organization.
A UAB Distinguished Professor has been awarded a lifetime achievement award in the field of infectious diseases.
Yabing Chen, Ph.D., and Ganesh Halade, Ph.D., have won 2018 “best paper” awards.
Ashlyn Burch’s DOE award lets her study at Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
UAB Pathology adds new Anatomic Pathology Division Director in Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, M.D., Ph.D., an expert in genitourinary pathology.
Douglas Morgan, M.D., is a global expert in the epidemiology and prevention of gastric cancer.
Paul Erwin, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the School of Public Health, was honored with a distinguished service award by the Tennessee Public Health Association.
UAB’s GEAR UP Alabama director will advocate and provide professional development for educators across the United States.
School of Optometry professor receives a grant to develop methods of slowing the progression of myopia, also known as nearsightedness.
The director of UAB’s Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute will present the groundbreaking work taking place in the institute and the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center to identify and treat cancer.
Grover takes permanent role after serving as interim CEO since November 2017.
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