Success will position UAB, Birmingham and all of Alabama at the epicenter of the race to develop the advanced materials that will power the 21st century.

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

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.

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.

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