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Sylvie Mrug, Ph.D., and Maria Hopkins, Ph.D., have each been awarded a grant from the HRSA, marking a historic milestone as the first recipients of this grant within the UAB College of Arts and Sciences.

UAB Homecoming Week’s star attractions include UAB’s legendary Gurney Derby, the UAB Homecoming Parade, the Battle for the Bones BBQ Competition and UAB Football vs. Memphis.

For Alison Chapman, Ph.D., professor in the Department of English, the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been more than the location of her 25-year career; it has been home.

A dead man’s cellphone rings incessantly in a café until a troubled woman answers it in this imaginative and darkly comic exploration of love, death and technology by Sarah Ruhl.

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.

Gift from the former UAB sociology professor will create gender and health programming.

Most performances are free and open to the public, including a faculty lecture on Tchaikovsky by Yakov Kasman, spirituals from Won Cho, music from alumnus Eric Mobley and more.

The following is the schedule of forums for the 2025 – 2026 academic year. The forums will take place on Fridays between 1:25 p.m.

The visit is part of the UAB Visiting Writers’ Series.

Kelly Allison received the ACT Hall of Fame Award for Pioneers in Alabama Theatre, and Dennis McLernon was honored with the Dorothy Schwartz Outstanding Educator Award.

UAB has been ranked No. 132 out of 434 measured schools for Best National Universities.

This summer, Department of Philosophy student Alyssa Abbott had the opportunity to participate in the Mayo Clinic's ten-week Summer Undergraduate Program in Biomedical Ethics Research in Rochester, Minnesota. In her article for CAS News, Abbot shares her SUPER experience.