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.

Stacey Holloway, assistant professor of sculpture, partnered with colleagues to publish a collection of letters to a fictional young iron-caster written by 21 iron-casting innovators.

Many women with spina bifida were leaving pediatric care unaware they could become pregnant. Now groundbreaking data on this phenomenon has been compiled using a new informatics framework for translational research.

The two-page concept papers, which involve hundreds of individuals and represent dozens of departments, schools and organizations are posted on the Grand Challenge website.

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.”