Frank Messina is the nation’s only faculty athletics representative selected for a four-year term on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee, which promotes the health, education and safety of student-athletes.

Louis Justement, Ph.D., has been named president-elect for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

Patricia Martinez, assistant vice president for Student Affairs, is recognized for decades of contribution to the student-housing experience.

Assistant Professor Martha Dawson, DNP, whose career in nursing and health systems leadership spans more than 40 years, will be installed as the 13th president of the association during the annual conference later this month.

UAB optometrists and ophthalmologists worked with lead medical personnel from UAB Athletics to modify AHSAA restrictions that prohibited tinted visors or other apparatuses in competition to get accommodations for high school athletes who had light sensitivity and similar health conditions.     

Grace Cunningham, who will graduate this weekend with her master of science with a concentration in exercise physiology, was diagnosed with lupus at 20 years old, but hasn’t let it slow her down.

Laura Gilmour quit her job in medical sales to pursue a passion to help others. Now, with help from faculty mentors and coursework in the Global Health Studies and MBA programs, she will be providing equipment and training to medical facilities in need around the world.

From national television appearances to hands-on mentoring events, faculty, alumni and students of the School of Engineering demonstrate that innovation and leadership have no boundaries.

From traveling to Antarctica to publishing children’s books, from taking biology educational tools to India to planting pollinator gardens on campus, women have been integral to shaping UAB’s reputation its 50-year history. As part of its annual coverage of Women’s History Month, the UAB Reporter has gathered examples of its more recent coverage of women at UAB.

Joe Appleton, Ph.D., founding dean of UAB’s School of Engineering, died Jan. 17. The school was created in 1971, two years after UAB became an independent university in 1969, and Appleton helmed the school until 1978.