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ASC’s “The Essentials” Spotlights Swing with Kirk Whalum on Sept. 26
Acclaimed jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum will star in “The Essentials: Swing,” the second installment of an original series presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
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Biology’s Fall Welcome Back Picnic
The Department of Biology invites Biology Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni, and Friends to attend its annual Welcome Back Picnic.
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Fall Aging Symposium
The Department of Biology has teamed with UAB College of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, and Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging to bring you its fall Aging Symposium entitled: "The Basic Biology of Aging and The Future of Human Health.”
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Biology Seminar Speaker Series
Fall is here, which means it is time for the Department of Biology Seminar Speaker Series. Join us as we host weekly talks over the course of the fall semester to open up the discussion on topics prevalent to the cutting-edge scientific community.
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Sociology Graduate Student News
Kristi Stringer received an NIH dissertation grant with four years of funding through the National Institute of Drug Abuse to study HIV and substance abuse.
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UAB Music to Present “Dowland Lute Songs and the Cult of Elizabeth I”
Guest lutenist David Walker will join soprano Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, DMA, in a faculty recital featuring the lute songs of John Dowland on Monday, Sept. 15.
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Sociology Doctoral Student Earns Fellowship Grant from NIH
Kristi L. Stringer, a doctoral candidate in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Sociology, has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship grant through the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which enables promising predoctoral students to obtain individualized research training while conducting their dissertation research.
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UAB Honors College Welcomes Largest Incoming Freshman Class
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Honors College welcomed its largest-ever incoming class of freshmen this week, 375 students from 21 states and the United Kingdom.
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UAB Art History Professor Pens Book on Indian Temple's Iconography
The first book by University of Alabama at Birmingham Associate Professor of Art History Cathleen Cummings, M.A., Ph.D., “Decoding a Hindu Temple: Royalty and Religion in the Iconographic Program of the Virupaksha Temple, Pattadakal,” has been published.
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The College Welcomes New Chair of Communications Studies
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Timothy Levine has accepted the position as Chair of the Department of Communication Studies.
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Gardner Named Director of Forensic Science Program
The Department of Justice Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Gardner is the new Director of the department's forensic science program.
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UAB Faculty Brass Quintet to Perform Free "First Thursday" Concerts at UAB Hospital
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music’s Faculty Brass Quintet, in partnership with University Hospital, is set for a new series of monthly “First Thursday” pops concerts in the hospital atrium.
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UAB Friend Lecture Series Presents Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi on Sept. 18
Artist, art historian and curator Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Ph.D., has been selected for the 2014 Edward M. and Hermione C. Friend Lecture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18.
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Liquid Chemistry
If you’ve never heard of zymurgy, you aren’t alone. But if you’ve ever tasted a beer, you’ve experienced it: Zymurgy is the science of fermentation.
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UAB to Host Rapid Fire Event for Birmingham Artists
Rapid Fire, a gathering of artists and thinkers designed to help build community and foster dialogue, will be hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Art and Art History on Friday, Sept. 5.
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Theatre UAB Announces Bold New Season for 2014-2015
This season the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre will tackle weighty and witty plays on race relations, warfare and sexual liberation, along with a coming-of-age musical puppet parable and the annual Festival of 10-Minute Plays.
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New Research Presents an Improved Method to Let Computers Know You Are Human
CAPTCHA services that require users to recognize and type in static distorted characters may be a method of the past, according to studies published by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Alumni Interview: Ashley Jones
Halley Cotton, a graduate assistant in the department's Creative Writing Program, recently sat down to talk with Ashley Jones, an alumna of the program, about her time at UAB, what inspires her, her favorite writers, and her hopes for the future.
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UAB Celebrates Cultural Corridor with “Magic Chromacity” Aug. 28-Sept. 3
Two buildings on the University of Alabama at Birmingham campus will be covered with giant swathes of colorful fabric for a large-scale art installation by New York City-based artist Amanda Browder titled “Magic Chromacity.”
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New Directors Announced for UAB Cyber Center
John Sloan, Ph.D., has been named the new director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s UAB Center for Cyber Security. Puri Bangalore, Ph.D., will assume Sloan’s former position of assistant director of the UAB Center for Cyber Security.
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Student-made Documentaries Will Screen at Sidewalk Film Festival
Documentary shorts produced by six University of Alabama at Birmingham students and an alumnus will be screened during the 2014 Sidewalk Film Festival.
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UAB Music Announces New Season of Free Performances, Special Events
Student and faculty artists in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music will present a wealth of concerts, recitals and performances for the fall 2014 semester.
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Work by UAB Grad Celestia Morgan Chosen for “State of the Art” Show
Birmingham artist and University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Art and Art History alumna Celestia Morgan will have two photographic works in “State of the Art: Discovering American Artists Now,” an exhibition presented by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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UAB Concert Choir Celebrates World Choir Games Gold and Silver
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music’s Concert Choir has returned triumphant from a once-in-a-lifetime European summer tour, which included winning gold and silver medals in three categories at the eighth World Choir Games in Riga, Latvia.
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Dr. Solorio Wins GHC Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award
UAB Computer and Information Sciences assistant professor Thamar Solorio has been named the winner of the Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award. The award recognizes a junior faculty member for high-quality research and significant positive impact on diversity.
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ArtPlay Offers New Session of Arts Classes, Season of Community Events
Come to the 2014-2015 UAB Writers Series
The UAB Writers' Series is an annual offering of the Creative Writing program. Nationally recognized authors are invited to UAB to give readings and participate in Q-and-A sessions. Readings are free and open to the public.
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International Internship Granted to Recent UAB Graduate
University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate Michael Longmire is spending four months working at the world’s largest chemical company as part of an internship granted to him by the German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD.
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Vulcan History Review Volume 18 Now Available
The latest issue of the Vulcan Historical Review, the journal written and edited by undergraduate and graduate history students at UAB, is now available for all lovers of history to read.
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Physician Creates Lasting Legacy through Language, English Scholarships
Over the course of 26 years, beginning in 1986, William Doggett III, M.D., took 70 undergraduate and graduate-level classes at UAB.
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Earwood Works to Expand Service-Learning
During the past year, 11 faculty have worked together to create new service-learning courses or to integrate components in existing courses. Martha Earwood of Justice Sciences is one of them.
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Physics Alumnus Luther Beegle's Proposal Selected for Mars 2020 Rover
NASA recently announced the selection of seven instrument proposals for inclusion on the next rover to be sent to Mars in 2020. Among the proposals selected, Dr. Luther Beegle, UAB physics alumnus and Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, is the principal investigator for the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC).
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New Leadership Named for The Center for Information Assurance & Joint Forensics Research
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce new leadership for The Center for Information Assurance & Joint Forensics Research (CIA-JFR), effective July 1, 2014.
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Magic Words: Students Discover Birmingham by Writing About It
The city of Birmingham is an open book for students in one UAB English course. It serves as both subject and setting for their work, which hones their skills for writing about place for different public and academic audiences. And they quickly find that Birmingham’s story has plenty of blank pages for them to fill.
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UABTeach
UABTeach lets undergraduate students majoring in math or science receive both their subject matter degree and full teaching certification in four years at no extra time or cost.
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Red Carpet Entrance
Sidewalk Film Festival has accepted three films produced by six College of Arts and Sciences students in the documentary shorts category.
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New WiFi networks Launch July 31
UABIT will introduce a faster, stronger, more secure WiFi network that will offer greater convenience for users with BlazerIDs and simplify WiFi access for guests.
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Garden of Ideas: UAB and Sustainability
Julie Price, inaugural sustainability coordinator and UAB alumna, is out to prove that sustainability is more than recycling or switching off lights when you leave a room, and that the benefits go far beyond the bottom line and good public relations.
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Summer Bridge Program Brings Woodlawn Students to UAB for College Crash Course
A group of 50 rising ninth- and 10th-graders from Woodlawn High School will enjoy an early college experience at the University of Alabama at Birmingham through the Summer Bridge Program from July 28-31.
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