A unique challenge confronts rising sophomores entering campus this fall: What does your second year of college look like when your first year was so nonconventional?

Enrollment in the School of Public Health rose 61% in 2020, including a 92% increase in epidemiology graduate programs. What is motivating these students, what are they learning and what does the job market hold? Faculty, students and alumni answer in this story.

Instructor Alicja Foksinska and her students explain the power of data visualization, the topic of a course in the online Business Analytics with Information Technology certificate program.

The 100% online master’s degree and certificate, launched fall 2020, are attracting interest from UAB employees and students across the country and beyond.

A virtual internship enables students to be part of change here and abroad and help develop better outcomes for adolescents in Nicaragua.

A new interactive tool helps students participate in virtual global classrooms and internships, access passport services and streamline course-approval processes.

Students can combine two participating UAB certificate programs with a capstone project to create a master’s that meets their unique needs.

Graduates help develop new shielding materials and enter a hot job market with hospitals, industry and the military. Research efforts are a major plus for those starting in health physics careers.

A study abroad service-learning course begun in 2018 has helped tribal women in rural Kenya improve their quality of life, better weather a pandemic.

Associate Professor of English and Director of Freshman Composition Chris Minnix, Ph.D., is the new director of UAB’s Signature Core Curriculum, a broad array of courses slated to launch in fall 2022.

Review the Canvas modules and explore the sandbox with help from the UAB Career Center and UAB eLearning.

Neuroengineering doctorate, master’s degrees in higher ed administration and interdisciplinary studies move forward.

As it enters the second half of its first century, UAB prepares to introduce a Signature Core that reflects its unique culture and makes the city “your classroom, your laboratory, your gateway to the world.”

The director of UAB’s doctoral program in epidemiology shares what she loves about the field and her path into the profession.

Talking cutting-edge science and family questions with the first members of UAB's Undergraduate Immunology Program.

So three students and their instructor, Health Behavior Chair Kevin Fontaine, Ph.D., walk into a class — and explain why an Honors College seminar on comedy and well-being is such a hit.