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UAB Homecoming Week’s star attractions include UAB’s legendary Gurney Derby, the UAB Homecoming Parade, the Battle for the Bones BBQ Competition and UAB Football vs. Memphis.

Prospective students — both in-state and out-of-state — can apply this week without paying any application fees.

A dead man’s cellphone rings incessantly in a café until a troubled woman answers it in this imaginative and darkly comic exploration of love, death and technology by Sarah Ruhl.

UAB professor receives a $3.7 million grant to study how the genetic risk of high blood pressure affects the behavior of young and middle-aged adults.

Now in its third year, the Veterans Day 5K provides much-needed support for student veterans and their dependents for essentials like housing, books and emergency expenses.

This pilot program will work to address trauma resource accessibility and improve upon the care offered in rural emergency departments.

Screenings are important in the standardized health care of middle-aged men.

The Blazer Bridge Fund encourages discovery among the UAB community by providing financial support to innovative ideas and inventions.

Most performances are free and open to the public, including a faculty lecture on Tchaikovsky by Yakov Kasman, spirituals from Won Cho, music from alumnus Eric Mobley and more.

Equal Access Birmingham is a free clinic run by medical students and staffed entirely by volunteers.

A UAB researcher’s discovery of ZTTK Syndrome connects science with families like Miles Santulli’s, inspiring hope and community through research and advocacy.

The visit is part of the UAB Visiting Writers’ Series.

Kelly Allison received the ACT Hall of Fame Award for Pioneers in Alabama Theatre, and Dennis McLernon was honored with the Dorothy Schwartz Outstanding Educator Award.

UAB has been ranked No. 132 out of 434 measured schools for Best National Universities. This marks an improvement of four spots from the previous year.

UAB patient Ruben Vuittonet Jr. uses his passion for origami to help others through difficult times.  

AEIVA will open the exhibition with a free public reception from 5-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, as part of the 2025 Arts Block Party presented by the UAB Center for the Arts.

Daniel Creech, who speaks with a tablet and drives his wheelchair with his eyes so was afraid to get glasses, thinking that they would hinder his ability to speak or have mobility.

Hunter Forsythe and Williams Beaumont are graduate students in UAB’s nationally ranked Department of Computer Science cybersecurity division.  

UAB has been named an Honor Roll university for the first time, placing the institution among the nation’s best in employee engagement and satisfaction.

More than two years ago, 19-year-old Grayson Pope was fleeing a pop-up storm while playing golf with friends when a large tree collapsed on his golf cart. He suffered hundreds of brain bleeds, brain stem damage and swelling on his brain.