UAB researchers are pioneering five new projects as they continue making new discoveries and advancing science to benefit oral health locally and globally.

Blazer Bridge Fund provides financial support to innovative ideas and inventions by the UAB community, encouraging advanced discovery. 

Theatre students from UAB take the show on the road and travel to schools around central Alabama to perform. See their free showcases Saturday, Sept. 28, or schedule a visit.

Experts at UAB say learning disabilities are common, and there are many ways for parents to identify warning signs at home and provide support.

Decorated ethicist George Lucas will address the hopeful uses of emergent military technologies to promote stability, reduce human suffering, and counter the prevailing conflict and war tendencies.

An accomplished performer and devoted teacher, Smith is a UAB alumnus, graduate of the Eastman School of Music and associate professor of piano at Utah State University.

This season’s offerings will include the UAB Piano Series with alumnus Cahill Smith and “Gospel Goes Classical” with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, plus free recitals and concerts from faculty and students.

For their continued research in sleep disorders in individuals with Down syndrome, UAB’s Caroline G. Richter, Ph.D. and S. Justin Thomas, Ph.D. were named the recipients of the 2024-2025 McNulty Civitan Scientist Award.

For “Outside Lines,” AEIVA Curator Hannah Spears was inspired to select works that examine how artists’ use of color reflects broader shifts in society, technology and culture.

Mekki is honored to receive this prestigious scholarship that will alleviate the financial burden of education and provide meaningful travel experiences.

As the 2024 Mobile Medical Museum artist-in-residence, Baulos worked with the museum to research the history of local medicinal plants and develop this extraordinary project.

Vohra is leading the Center for Additively Manufactured Complex Systems under Extremes at UAB in advancing understanding of 3D-printed materials when subjected to extremes of pressures, temperatures and high-velocity impacts.

Kerry Madden-Lunsford’s recent creative writing accolades include publishing a Junior Library Guild selection book and a New York Times’ “Metropolitan Diary” entry.

Theatre UAB will present “God of Carnage,” “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” “The Revolutionists,” and “She Kills Monsters,” with Disney’s “Freaky Friday” in collaboration with Red Mountain Theatre Company.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is addressing light pollution with new Campus SHINE at UAB program.

Study looks at how much virtual training children could use to develop adult street crossing competency and what might help children acquire that competency earlier.

For the 30th anniversary season, the band dug into the archives to craft a show of songs from different decades, including “Liberty Fanfare,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Thriller” and more.

The findings suggest disparate effects of phased COVID-19 vaccine rollout on mental health across U.S. populations.

Leslie Mollica resumed her education after an 11-year break, embraced opportunities in the computer science program and will graduate Aug. 10 having secured a full-time job with Southern Company.

Providing for his family has always been a constant in James Omweri’s life. This UAB chemistry graduate is now set to build a brighter future for his family as a radiochemist.