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The new UAB Community Counseling Clinic — a practicum and internship site in the School of Education — enables graduate students to receive hands-on instruction and training from licensed, professional instructors.
Respiratory Therapist Phillip Hood and nurses Melissa Garner and Beth Craig will leave again Jan. 28 for a 10-day journey into this part of the world where medical care is a luxury.
ArtPlay — a cultural arts-education center for the Birmingham community — is the result of years of research and planning that began with the vision and generous donation from long-time Alys Stephens Center supporter Jane Stephens Comer.
Deborah Voltz, Ed.D., professor of curriculum and instruction and director of the UAB Center for Urban Education, has been tapped to be dean of the School of Education in UAB's College of Arts and Sciences effective Jan. 1.
UAB’s Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) will soon offer free health screenings, health-education classes and programs, and other primary prevention resources at its new wellness center in downtown Birmingham.
The overall results of UAB’s first Faculty and Staff Climate Survey are in, and they show that UAB exceeds the higher education norm in 20 out of the 24 items for which a norm is available.
Angela Rembert, former patient-care coordinator and current quality assurance officer in the School of Dentistry, is December’s Employee of the Month.
Molly Bray is the principal investigator for the five-year, $3.5 million Phase II TIGER study funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. UAB students will have an opportunity to participate in the study and receive college credit.
Research conducted by David Allison, professor of biostatistics. suggests that the root cause of obesity may be much more complicated than the conventional wisdom — too much food availability, too little opportunity to exercise. Light, viruses and epigenetics may be among many other factors that lead to obesity.
At least 800 students will participate in fall commencement exercises at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 18 in Bartow Arena. More than 2,100 students are expected to graduate this semester.
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