PHOTO OP: UAB to Celebrate First University Day with Academic Convocation, Reception at The Alys Stephens Center

The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host its first University Day, celebrating UAB’s 40th anniversary, with a ceremony led by UAB President Carol Z. Garrison and UAB Provost Eli Capilouto.

•  Convocation processional begins at 9:30 a.m.

•  Cupcake reception with Blaze follows ceremony

 

BIRMINGHAM, AL - The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host its first University Day, celebrating UAB's 40th anniversary, with a ceremony led by UAB President Carol Z. Garrison and UAB Provost Eli Capilouto. A processional will feature 40 distinguished UAB alumni representing the graduating classes from 1969 to 2009. Chancellor Malcolm Portera of the University of Alabama System will speak, and one graduate from each decade will present remarks during the ceremony. After the convocation, UAB's mascot Blaze will join participants in celebration with a cupcake reception. The event will take place in the Alys Stephens Center's Jemison Concert Hall, 1200 10th Ave. South.

The convocation processional will begin at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 24. The cupcake reception with Blaze will take place immediately afterward upstairs in the Alys Stephens Center's Ingalls Grand Foyer, at approximately 10:30 a.m.

Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend as UAB recognizes "Forty Years of Breakthroughs." Graduates Tommie Cummings, Class of '75, George Little, Class of '81, Marquita Furness Davis, Class of '98, and Brian Sims, Class of '91, '98 and '00, will speak at the ceremony. For more information on these speakers.

UAB enrolled its first students as an autonomous campus in the three-campus University of Alabama System in September 1969. A chronology of its growth and development is online at http://www.uab.edu/historical/uabchron.html.

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Known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center and the state of Alabama's largest employer with some 18,000 employees and an economic impact of more than $3 billion on the Birmingham area. UAB has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service to America's communities, and in 2008 ranked nationally as one of the top 5 "Best Places to Work in Academia" in a survey published by The Scientist.