The 2025 honorees for the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching represent UAB schools, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Honors College. Hear what their students and colleagues have to say.

The latest cohort selected for the Blaze Leadership Academy includes 20 faculty and staff from across campus. See the full list of participants in this story.

The redesigned curriculum, which launched this semester, takes a “stackable,” flexible approach — layering a range of market-driven graduate certificates on top of a core curriculum so that students can customize their training to their specific needs.

Stacy Moak, Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, Sarah Culver and Samiksha Raut demonstrated extraordinary commitment to engaging undergraduate students in service learning, undergraduate research, education abroad and core teaching.

Hear from members of the first cohort of this new program from the Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Then check out the beta versions of their software tools for better workplace communication and AI-powered research summaries. 

A Collat School of Business researcher studying flexible work schedules found that planning improved satisfaction and reduced exhaustion. We asked a UAB life coach how she helps employees make plans — and how to take advantage of this employee benefit.

Collat Professional Education offers live-online and self-paced courses in data visualization, AI for marketing, grant writing skills and more.

A partnership among UAB Sustainability, UAB Energy Management and the Collat School of Business allowed the school to save 40 percent on its monthly utility bills in July 2024 and unlock ongoing reductions in energy use.

The 2024 honorees for the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching represent each school, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Honors College, and the Graduate School.

Annalise Sorrentino, M.D., professor in the Department of Pediatrics, will take on the role Oct. 1, 2024. She replaces Frank Messina, Ph.D., professor in the Collat School of Business, who has served as UAB’s FAR since 2008 and is retiring from UAB at the end of September.

Beyond Boundaries: AR and VR in Alabama, a major gathering of tech thought leaders from UAB, UAB Medicine and companies nationwide, will be held at the Collat School of Business from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Meek, a junior majoring in entrepreneurship, also is training as a GivePulse ambassador in her role at the Office of Service Learning and Undergraduate Research.

Meet the 2024 cohort of the DEAL Program, which exposes promising staff members to the essential components of administrative and management positions across UAB.

Geographic information systems technology is being used to study mortgage decisions, drinking behavior, environmental injustice, and the link between redlining and colon cancer. All Blazers now have free access to ArcGIS software.

Employees in the first cohort of the Developing Emerging Administrative Leaders program share what they learned, and the program’s creators explain their goals as DEAL recruits for its second cohort. Ready to apply? Deadline is Nov. 1.

Christopher L. Shook, Ph.D., who will begin July 1, brings more than 25 years of academic leadership experience to the role; he has served as dean of the Gordon Ford College of Business at Western Kentucky University since 2019.

Data analytics, effective business writing and managing a hybrid workforce are part of an extensive catalog of non-academic classes.

UAB continues to implement its Campus Master Plan through new facilities and renovations to enhance instruction, research, technology and student life. Some are under construction and others are in planning stages; these include an update to the Unity Park green space, seven new buildings and a new parking deck.

This year, the university recognizes 50 years of service by Jeanne Hutchison, Ph.D., and Ferdinand Urthaler, M.D., and 45 years of service by Robert Kim M.D., and Joseph Lovetto. In addition, 294 employees with 20 or more years and 904 with five, 10 and 15 years will honored for their longevity.