Snekha Rajasekaran plans to leverage her passion for medicine and social welfare to become a service-oriented physician-scientist, improving lives in Alabama and beyond.

Those inducted into the Hall of Fame have made contributions to the advancement of engineering and technology. 

One of UAB’s online master’s degrees ranked in the top three, marking the highest USNWR ranking for a UAB online program in history.

Injecting infarcted pig hearts with specially bioengineered cells significantly decreased the infarct area and improved heart function, showing possible clinical relevance.

Rachel Smith, Ph.D., is collaborating with researchers across UAB on the two-year project, which will focus on the intracranial neural networks responsible for major depressive symptoms in epilepsy patients. 

After four years of playing with the UAB Marching Blazers, Jonah Ross will graduate with his bachelor’s degree from the UAB School of Engineering.

More than half of the university’s 1,954 graduating students will walk in commencement this semester. The UAB President’s Medal will be awarded to Marnix E. Heersink, M.D.

Heart failure is responsible for 13 percent of deaths worldwide, and half of patients die within 5 years. New therapies are needed.

Meet the couples who met in the Marching Blazers, and the students marching this year whose alumni parents are passing along their Blazer spirit.

Yager’s journey as a Blazer is filled with institutional, national and international recognition; her most recent milestone is her unique patented catalytic reactor for NASA missions that has multiple applications in various other industries.

Chloe Naquin spent nine weeks in Puerto Rico studying the Cuban tree frog as part of the NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program.

UAB has been ranked No. 136 out of 434 measured schools for Best National Universities. This marks an improvement of six spots from the previous year.

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

The NIH grant will support development of a BionanomatrixTM coating for an aneurysm-therapy flow diverter in the brain.

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

This semester, at least 1,621 students are eligible to graduate, and 892 students are expected to walk in two ceremonies.

Nine University of Alabama at Birmingham students have been awarded NASA Alabama Space Grant Consortium scholarships and fellowships.

Across its esteemed academic campus, UAB’s graduate programs continue to shine.

Two University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate students were recently awarded Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program awards.

UAB now enrolling students in the Master of Science degree in artificial intelligence in medicine.