By creating online assets in Canvas, using rental textbooks or older editions and seeking out free online resources, 17 UAB faculty, powered by AIM grants, have saved students more than $1.1 million on instructional materials.

Learn what UAB graduate students and postdocs are uncovering in their research during five events this spring.

A grant awarded by the Japan Foundation Los Angeles will enable UAB Foreign Languages and Literatures to hire an instructor, expand course offerings and establish a major concentration in Japanese.

Psychology’s Zina Trost and several international colleagues have compiled a valuable resource for clinicians, students and researchers studying the practice, management, processes and psychology of pain.

Sociologist Patricia Drentea considers the ramifications of social patterns in the United States and shares six intriguing trends that will shape the next 50 years.

The Michel de Montaigne Endowed Prize in the History of Ideas, established by CAS Senior Associate Dean Catherine Daniélou, Ph.D., is inspired by the 16th-century French essayist of the same name.

The new concentration complements studies of everything from business management to education or nursing and more.

Freedom of speech, the intersection of human rights and metropolitan areas and the global refugee crisis are part of the fall forums with UAB’s Institute for Human Rights.

A diverse faculty committee will begin meeting with students, parents and supporters to gather big ideas for making UAB’s core unique among its peer institutions.

What do mindfulness and meditation have in common with the hip-hop’s global consciousness? Those topics and more will be discussed by the 2018-2019 cohort of Honors Faculty Fellows during their yearlong fellowship beginning in August.

Darrel Christenson, an independent living specialist, will discuss the intersection of accessible housing with inclusion, health and the role of visitability in the marketplace.

During the past year, 10 faculty from varied disciplines developed ideas for service-learning to promote active and ethical citizenship, social responsibility and engagement in courses across disciplines.

The new program’s creation, inspired by inquiries from both practicing alumni and current occupational therapy students, is designed with post-professional students in mind.

Seven faculty spent a year developing ideas for undergraduate research courses that focus on collaboration and innovation, with themes such as synthetic biology and police-community relations.

The most recent Noel Levitz survey revealed a dip in student satisfaction during the second year. In response, UAB has implemented a slew of new programming to help second-year students find their calling on campus.

Lisa McCormick took 15 students on a whirlwind tour of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia, exploring hurricane-ravaged neighborhoods, tuberculosis sanitariums and irradiated salt mines to help them better understand health inequities in the region.

With electronic-cigarette use on the rise, doctoral student Abdullah Alanazi and Eric Ford, Ph.D., professor in the School of Public Health, want to understand the trend’s relationship with drug use — and is using UAB’s informatics framework for translational research to do it.

There’s no evidence-based consensus on how long a seizure-ridden patient should be kept in an artificial coma to enable the brain to recover. Wolfgang Muhlhofer, M.D., an assistant professor of neurology, wants to change that.