Throughout the Spring 2025 semester, departments across the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences submitted nominations for the Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Underg...

For Odyssey Crowell, a University of Alabama at Birmingham medical sociology alumna, connecting sociology with the natural sciences is a must.

On November 20, 2024, the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) hosted its first-ever Graduate Research Day at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Alumni House.

Findings from a new UAB study show greater levels of grandparenting intensity are not associated with greater physical activity. 

The College of Arts and Sciences is proud to announce that 20 faculty members across ten departments have been awarded promotions (including one faculty member who also was awarded tenure).

Mercedes Tarasovich focused her research in medical sociology on barriers to mental health care for an understudied population — people who have survived suicide attempts.

A new UAB study sheds light on how changes in sociohistorical contexts impact the role of teen births on attainment of higher education.

The UAB Excellence in Business Top 25 program, presented by the UAB National Alumni Society, each year recognizes the fastest-growing and most successful businesses owned or managed by UAB graduates.

Throughout the Spring 2024 semester, departments across the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences submitted nominations for the Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Underg...

A new study from UAB provides clarity on how the pandemic mattered for the mental health of parents with school-age children.

In the world of medicine, treating the body and treating the person can be two distinctly different things.

As part of the HESP cohort, Miller aims to enhance community engagement, communicate research findings and foster relationships with peers while focusing on policy determinants of health, particula...

Verna Keith, Ph.D.Verna Keith, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, served as a co-editor of Social Psychology Quarterly's special issue on race, racism, and discrimination.

As part of the CGI U, students developed initiatives focused on health, education, poverty, environment, human rights, poverty alleviation and public health, impacting local and global communities.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences offers faculty a range of awards and grant opportunities to advance their research and scholarship and recognize their achie...

Michele “Mike” Wilson, Ph.D., was an award-winning faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Sociology and launched the Women’s Studies Program.

COVID-19 changed the way we communicate, care for others, educate our children, work and more.

Each academic year, the UAB College of Arts and Sciences receives departmental nominations for the Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Undergraduate Students and Outstanding Graduate Students.Each acad...

Arts and Sciences faculty gather to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by the pandemic.

In 1997, Leigh Willis, Ph.D., a rising senior studying sociology at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, encountered a life-changing document.