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Want to bring diverse perspectives into your classroom? Attend a Global Awareness series this month, made possible through a partnership with INTO UAB and the Center for Teaching and Learning’s new international education expert, Melissa Hawkins.

Published in Teaching & Learning

The winning proposal is a comprehensive approach to fixing Alabama’s complex health problems and includes 90 partners from government, business, education and more.

Published in Campus News

Erin Borry leverages sitcom laughs to prepare future bureaucrats for sticky situations in government work.

Published in Research & Scholarship

The one-year fellowship will accelerate the work of faculty eager to develop courses to promote active and ethical citizenship, cultural immersion and community engagement.

Published in Programs & Curricula
What’s it really like to work in a refugee camp? Is there a place for me? An elective course in the Graduate Certificate in Global Health Studies offers practical advice for students with an eye on working overseas.
Published in Programs & Curricula

Grand Challenge finalist plans to make Alabama a model of healthy living by expanding proven innovations and changing policies, neighborhoods, schools and workplaces.

Published in Research & Scholarship

Lack of access to care is the biggest contributor to Alabama’s health woes and technology offers a solution, according to the REACH project, a finalist in the UAB Grand Challenge.

Published in Research & Scholarship

The Alabama HOPE Project, a Grand Challenge finalist, would bring change through education, health and economic opportunity, starting in Birmingham and Marengo County.

Published in Research & Scholarship

What does a smart, sustainable city look like in the 21st century? This Grand Challenge proposal would create a large-scale testbed for new approaches in technology, policy and sustainability in Birmingham to prove best practices to be used by cities throughout Alabama, the United States and the world.

Published in Research & Scholarship

A new discipline sits at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering, where lessons learned from circuits, networks and chips are combined with the latest findings on brain circuitry.

Published in Programs & Curricula

The project, a finalist in the Grand Challenge, promotes clinical intervention, education and research to prevent opioid overdoses.

Published in Research & Scholarship

Pay-to-publish journals are often outright scams and undermine the foundation of legitimate research, says Arline Savage, Ph.D. Here’s how faculty and their departments can defend themselves.

Published in Research & Scholarship

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.

Published in Research & Scholarship

English Instructor Jessica Smith wrote the book of poetry as she was leaving a job, helping a student learn to trust again, and discovering a new skill.  

Published in Publications

“Ernestine’s Milky Way”, set in the early 1940s, tells the story of a determined 5-year-old girl who sets off on a journey to deliver two Mason jars of milk to her neighbors in the holler.

Published in Publications

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

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

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

The Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority now will have a UAB-developed, zero-emissions bus in its downtown MAX fleet, and the city is home to the only hydrogen-fuel-cell bus and fueling station in the Southeast.

Published in Economic Development
Jack became dean of the School of Business in April 2013.
Published in Faculty Appointments
Students can review their degree progress online, see remaining coursework if they change majors and utilize GPA calculators
Published in Tools & Technology

Barnes’ expertise in mass spectrometry and soy has ­had a lasting effect nationally, internationally and with students

Published in Awards & Honors

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

Published in Research & Scholarship
UAB will promote teaching skills and showcase research findings in medical education during Medical Education Week Sept. 24-28
Published in Learning & Development

One of the nation’s most respected programs will benefit from the synergy and expertise of Nursing’s advanced-practice faculty

Published in Academics
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