Displaying items by tag: college of arts and sciences

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.

Published in Teaching & Learning

The new University of Alabama System Public Art Trail will support art that enhances the visual aesthetic of each campus.

Published in Arts & Recreation

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.

Published in Teaching & Learning

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.

Published in Publications

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.

Published in Research & Scholarship

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.

Published in Research & Scholarship

Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., an authority on modern European history, including histories of racism and antisemitism, and the history of advertising and consumerism, joined UAB Jan. 1.

Published in Faculty Appointments

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

Published in Programs & Curricula

The eight postdocs selected to receive Outstanding Postdoctoral Awards represent eight departments, divisions and schools across UAB.

Published in Awards & Honors

Biology’s Sami Raut turned a teaching fellowship into an international STEM outreach initiative.

Published in UAB Global

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.

Published in Academics

Five individuals and one student organization were honored with the President’s Diversity Champion awards.

Published in Awards & Honors
Hear from students and faculty in UAB's Undergraduate Immunology Program
Published in Programs & Curricula

UAB anthropology professor’s use of satellite technology to find and map archaeological sites embodies “the new age of exploration.”
Published in Achievements
This distinction is an Order of Chivalry for academics and cultural and educational figures recognizing those who are active players in promoting the French language and culture.
Published in Awards & Honors
The NSF will support a UAB/BBA collaboration through a $600,000 award — the first Partnership for Innovation grant ever given in Alabama.
Published in Extramural Awards
The plight of the Antarctic-based Adelie penguin reveals much about the future of our planet, according to UAB University Professor Jim McClintock, Ph.D. The story of the seabird’s struggle to adjust to the warming climate is captured in “Ghost Rookeries,” a four-minute film produced by the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and narrated by actor Harrison Ford, who is on the foundation's board of advisers. The journey comes alive through the prose from McClintock’s book, “Lost Antarctica: Climate Change on the Antarctic Peninsula.”
Published in Outreach

Annual award honors teachers in each school, the College of Arts & Sciences and the Joint Health Sciences departments

Published in Awards & Honors
“Beyond Sound, the College and Career Guide in Music Technology” offers information on school programs and advice from professionals in the music industry.
Published in Achievements
NAPSW promotes and supports excellence in perinatal social work to maximize healthy outcomes for babies and their families.
Published in Awards & Honors
CengageBrain's Top TA competition allowed college students to recognize the TAs who made the greatest impacts on their educations.
Published in Staff Appointments
Opportunity to use rec center as teaching facility enables Human Studies to expand offerings, gives facility a boost
Published in Be Healthy

CAS pools resources to create only all-Mac open resource lab, classroom in Alabama

Published in Learning & Development

Philosophy professor Greg Pence argues that careful, ethical people can use scientific advances to improve their fates

Published in Research & Scholarship

Max Michael envisions a space for UAB and the community to gather, tap their imaginations, develop new ideas and solve difficult problems.

Published in Tools & Technology
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