After an unprecedented academic year, the UAB College of Arts and Sciences community takes a moment to highlight the profound achievements of our faculty, students, alumni, and staff. Although the pandemic prompted pivots and presented challenges, the people of the College exercised a determined and resilient spirit, and, now, we look to the future with optimism and hope.
Read the 2021 issue of Arts & Sciences magazine
Arts & Sciences Magazine
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November 30, 2021
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UAB Strategic Investment Fund names 2025 awardeesThe SIF backs cross-campus projects — designed and led by UAB faculty and staff — that align with the university’s strategic plan, Forging Ahead. Funded projects this year focus on eSports, a rapid innovation pipeline for clinical/research ideas, and a makerspace for research and education in arts, sciences and engineering. -
Miss UAB 2026 is Mckinley HubbardHubbard, 20, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, also won the Miss Congeniality and Talent awards, winning $2,800 in scholarships. -
This “dopamine aficionado” is exploring new approaches to a Parkinson’s puzzleUAB neuroscientist Kauê Machado Costa, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, received a Parkinson's Foundation grant to test an intriguing hypothesis: The cognitive deficits now known to occur in the early years of Parkinson's disease may be a clue that learning-oriented dopamine circuits shift gears to cover for their movement-focused cousins. If Costa’s...