New courses train peer educators to provide support for fellow students — from sharing health information to providing one-on-one counseling — while learning skills crucial for the job market.

Co-authors Peter Ginter and Jack Duncan publish the eighth edition of “Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations,” the leading textbook in the field for the past 25 years.a

Full-time faculty who want to enhance community and provide stimulating academic enrichment opportunities can apply by April 30 for the Honors Faculty Fellowship Program.

Only 12 art therapists in Alabama are credentialed, and UAB is home to two of those — EACC Counselor Carrie Ezell and Christianne Strang, a neurobiologist.

The therapy game may have the potential to revolutionize treatment of neuropathic pain in paralyzed patients, which is notoriously hard to treat.

Community Food Bank of Central Alabama will receive $25,000 to help implement a new tool to enable staff in UAB clinics to identify patients who need food.

Education Abroad trips to Italy, Thailand and China immerse students in a new culture, give them a behind-the-scenes look into various aspects of business and can make them extra appealing to employers.

Alongside patients and clinicians of UAB Medicine are chaplains who offer compassion and help them remember the things that bring meaning, strength and hope to their lives during trying times.

INTO UAB Adviser Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell is working to improve education for young girls in her native Sri Lanka and be a catalyst for cultural and social change.

As ultrasound technology becomes more prevalent and useful for patient care, UAB faculty and clinicians are teaching a new generation of caregivers about its use.

Faculty got creative with course materials, and both the course and students benefitted. New grants to develop affordable instructional materials will accelerate those savings.

Adopt an angel from the Angel Tree or donate to Toys for Tots to help underprivileged families celebrate the holidays.

When citizens forsake logic and rely only on personality and emotion, Western society risks violence, unchecked libel and corrupted elections, says English Professor Bruce McComiskey in his new book, “Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition.”

Think the walking dead are just a pop culture phenomenon? Read through tales from medieval Europe to see some centuries-old takes on the ghostly undead.

The Computer Science department was formed two years before UAB was designated as an autonomous university and degrees in computer science existed.

The Fall 2017 Graduate Program Recruitment Fair will be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Hill Student Center Ballroom.

Traditional remedial freshman comp courses are being replaced with a learning environment that is more productive and positive, and students are rising to the challenge.

The classes, which resume Sept. 14, are a trifecta of core UAB values: leveraging knowledge while providing training to students and performing a service for the community.

The new business accelerator is a key component of the university’s plan to attract and support innovators and connect them to the city’s larger innovation ecosystem. Learn more during the launch 8-10 a.m. Aug. 21.

For her new book project, Assistant Professor Margaret Jay Jessee examines works of early 19th-century male novelists who portrayed women doctors as inherently evil and the women writers who worked to reverse that depiction.