Faculty Excellence

2016 TED Prize Wish Reveal to be Streamed Live at Hill Student Center
Egyptologist and UAB associate professor Sarah Parcak, Ph.D., will reveal her $1 million wish live from the TED stage in Vancouver on Feb. 16. The event will be streamed live for the Birmingham community.
Read more

Ling Ma Receives 2016 Alabama Educator of Excellence Award from Alabama World Language Association
Ling Ma was honored at the annual conference of the Alabama World Language Association at Troy University, Troy Alabama.
Read more

John Maddox Selected for the AATSP Member Spotlight
Maddox: "Learning Spanish and Portuguese has given me a special sense of freedom. I grew up in a mostly monolingual community in rural Georgia, but ever sense I took Jane 'Juana' Futral’s Spanish 1 class at Wheeler County High School, I knew I wanted to be a language teacher."
Read more

Making a Case for Human Values in Data-driven Democracies
In a new book, government professor Akhlaque Haque, Ph.D., explains how Big Data, social media and other digital innovations can create more responsive, responsible public administration.
Read more

Professor Larry Powell Discusses the Topic of Media Bias in Republican Debates
We asked UAB Department of Communication Studies Professor Dr. Larry Powell to weigh in on the effectiveness of this fall's Republican debates, how they have been moderated, and whether the candidates’ accusations of media bias are merited.
Read more

UAB Professor to Conduct First Comprehensive Study of Centuries-old Legal Case
John K. Moore Jr., Ph.D., an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a research fellowship from the Institute for Pilgrimage Studies at the College of William & Mary.
Read more

New Publication, "El mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo"
Professor Lourdes Sánchez-López published a new book, El mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo: historia, política, sociedades y culturas (Routledge, 2016) with co-author Professor Clara Mojica-Díaz (Tennessee State University).
Read more

UAB’s Yakov Kasman to Perform as Soloist with Russian Orchestra
Kasman, professor of piano, will be a soloist with Saratov Philharmonic Orchestra in the performance of Nikolai Medtner’s Piano Concerto No. 2 op. 50 on Sunday, Dec. 6.
Read more

Government Professor Connects Information Technology and Public Administration
In Department of Government Professor Dr. Akhlaque Haque's new book “Surveillance, Transparency, & Democracy: Public Administration in the Information Age,” he explores how information technology can influence decision making by public policy leaders.
Read more

UAB’s Sarah Parcak Named 2016 TED Prize Winner
Joining the likes of Bono and Bill Clinton, UAB space archaeologist Sarah Parcak — often called the real-life Indiana Jones — will receive $1 million and help from the TED network to make her world-changing wish come true. What will her wish be?
Read more

Birmingham Space Archaeologist Uncovers Ancient Civilizations, Teaches the World
When Egyptologist Sarah Parcak is not in a classroom at UAB, the pioneer of satellite remote sensing for archaeology is finding sites around the world from space and helping others follow her lead.
Read more

Anthropology Chair Douglas Fry Receives 2015 Peace Educator/Scholar Award
UAB Department of Anthropology chair Douglas P. Fry was presented with the 2015 Peace Educator/Scholar award by the Peace and Justice Studies Association on Saturday, Oct. 17, at James Madison University in Virginia.
Read more

Parcak Receives European Award for Archaeological Work
Sarah Parcak, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, has been selected to receive the Capo Circeo Award.
Read more

Exploring the Building Blocks of Memory
J. David Sweatt, Ph.D., an international expert in the molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory, explains exciting breakthroughs in the field, including his own lab's work on ways to block, erase and enhance memories.
Read more

Dr. Eugenia Kharlampieva Named President of UAB Sigma Xi Chapter
Dr. Eugenia Kharlampieva, an Associate Professor of polymer chemistry and nanomaterials in the Department of Chemistry, has been elected president of the UAB Sigma Xi chapter.
Read more

English Professor Releases New Collaborative Book “According to Discretion”
UAB English Assistant Professor Adam Vines and Las Vegas aerialist and writer Allen Jih combine their talent for a new project.
Read more

Professor Earns Prestigious Online Course Certification
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Assistant Professor Malinda Blair O’Leary became the College of Arts and Sciences’ first instructor to have their online course certified by Quality Matters.
Read more

Are Fruit Flies a Key to a Cure for Obesity?
Dr. Nicole Riddle, this year’s Named New Investigator for the UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) uses her new distinction to uncover the secret of cells.
Read more

UAB Faculty Receives Two NSF Grants for Cybersecurity Research
Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., has been awarded two grants in 2015 from the National Science Foundation to continue his research in computer and network security.
Read more

Newly Edited and Annotated by Leading Proust Scholar William C. Carter
Edited and annotated by leading Proust scholar William Carter, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second volume of one of the twentieth century’s great literary triumphs.
Read more