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UAB writing program helps local teachers' initiatives.

Taxes owed, deductions unclaimed account for millions of lost dollars in 2011; year-end tips will help you and your community recoup losses.

UAB adds renowned rehabilitation scientist to head innovative Lakeshore Foundation/UAB Research Collaborative.

Laboratory evidence offers new insight in blocking cancer cell growth with electromagnetic fields.

A multi-department team of UAB brain tumor researchers has received a grant to take a systems-biology approach to treatment.

Experienced science editor joins Media Relations to help promote the $460 million research enterprise.

UAB research reveals infection risk for biologics is comparable to traditional therapies and may be better than long-term steroid use.

Neurobiologists move closer to long-term goal: undo developmental disabilities.

UAB Spam Data Mine links Internet scam to cybercriminals accused of hacking more than 400 million computers.

UAB research shows positive results in weight loss drug combination.

Lund will be chair of the Department of Microbiology, Randall the first Claude Bennett Professor in Rheumatology and Immunology.

A UAB project aims to improve outcomes in fracture treatment for older women at risk for osteoporosis.

A UAB researcher has received a grant to study idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Six UAB teams are finalists in the 2011-12 Alabama Launchpad class.

UAB received a prestigious NCI award to study brain tumors, making it one of only a few institutions to hold four SPORE programs.

Connecting the elderly to friends and family online reduces depression, a UAB professor discovers.

A UAB professor has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The UAB Cancer Center’s Deep South Network now includes community research to better understand local cancer prevention needs.

A UAB study shows a possible risk from low-level exposure to plastic with BPA .
UAB will be part of a new neuroscience research consortium sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
NIH grant for brain cancer also makes UAB one of few centers with four Specialized Program of Research Excellence awards.
The Office of National AIDS Policy chose UAB as a site to monitor implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.

A UAB researcher has found a potential new way to treat head and neck cancer.

A UAB sociology professor will make two presentations at an Oxford University symposium.

A UAB pharmacology and toxicology professor has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Daniel L. Smith Jr., Ph.D., instructor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences in the UABSchool of Health Professions, has been selected as one of only two recipients of the 2011 Early-Career Research Grants from the Obesity Society.

The National Institutes of Health awarded a Phase II grant to Yogesh K. Vohra, Ph.D., a professor and University Scholar in UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Vista Engineering for their work on a temporomandibular joint prosthesis.

Several UAB faculty will present papers at this weekend’s American Sociological Association’s 106th annual meeting.

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