Student Achievement
Lamario Williams Receives PhysCon MSI/HBCY Travel Award
Congratulations to Physics student Lamario Williams on receiving a PhysCon MSI/HBCU Travel Award to attend PhysCon 2016 in San Francisco.
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UAB Piano Students Continue Winning Streak at Music Teachers National Association Alabama Competition
Senior music major Aleksandra Kasman will represent Alabama in the MTNA Southern Division competition in January in Columbia, South Carolina.
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35th Annual Mr. and Ms. UAB Scholarship Competition Winners and Alternates Named
Isabella Mak of Dothan and Eli Ussery of Columbus, Georgia, have been named Mr. and Ms. UAB, and Lakshmi Subramani of Madison and Daniel Alejandro Mendoza of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, were named first alternates.
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2016 Mr. & Ms. UAB Finalists
Nine of the 2016 Mr. & Ms. UAB Scholarship Competition finalists are students in College of Arts and Sciences departments and programs including Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Social Work.
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UAB Grad Student Uncovers Alabama Fossils Likely from Oldest Ancestor of Modern Sea Turtles
The evidence found suggests the earliest ancestors of modern sea turtles may have come from the Deep South.
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Self-published Artist Books and Zines Made by UAB Students Now Part of Birmingham Museum of Art Collection
Books, objects and records within the Birmingham Museum of Art’s library inspired the content of the works, created by 11 Department of Art and Art History students.
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How a Special Ops Medic Tends to Science Experiments in Space
Chase Chandler, a Navy veteran now majoring in physics at UAB, oversees research projects running on the International Space Station at NASA's Payload Operations Integration Center in Huntsville.
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Crossing an Ocean to Save Lives: Shanquela Williams Learns and Serves in Ghana
UAB senior Shanquela Williams says she has a passion to change the world. And she’s off to a good start: In the spring of 2016, she made a difference in the lives of children in the west African nation of Ghana, where she spent a semester studying social work.
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Chemistry Graduate Student Miranda Trentle Wins Award at ACS Meeting
Chemistry graduate student Miranda C. Trentle received the PMSE Best Poster Award at the 2016 ACS Philadelphia National Meeting.
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UAB Senior and National Merit Scholar Kelly Walters Reflects on Her Time at UAB
Kelly Walters relishes her access to scientists, clinicians and research opportunities unavailable to undergraduates at many other universities as she builds toward a career in medicine.
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Traveling Smart: Learning Becomes an Adventure for Students Abroad
Intrepid students are exchanging their textbooks for a world atlas, studying sustainability in the Netherlands, Spanish in Costa Rica—even marine ecology in Antarctica. UAB Education Abroad students and faculty describe the life-changing thrill of travel and share the discoveries and insights they have brought home.
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New Pan-African Student Coalition Looks for Unification
The Pan-African Student Coalition at UAB, organized during this summer semester, hopes to provide a place where students can feel they belong and serve as an umbrella organization for other organizations consisting of people of African descent.
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Students Forge New Paths Through Birmingham's History
The downtown walking tour was scheduled for a sunny Saturday in April 2016. But the group of about 40 and their UAB student guides soon found themselves reliving another spring morning—Easter Sunday 1963.
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Undergraduate Neuroscience Program Students Win UAB Summer Expo Awards
Five Undergraduate Neuroscience Program students won awards at the UAB Office of Service Learning and Undergraduate Research's Summer Expo.
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Honors Neuroscience Summer Research Academy: Psychology Labs
See how students working in psychology labs describe their experience in the Honors Neuroscience Summer Research Academy.
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Honors Neuroscience Summer Research Academy: School of Medicine Labs
Four students participating in the Honors Neuroscience Summer Research Academy are working in School of Medicine labs.
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UAB Student Artist Named an American Advertising Federation Student of the Year
Bailey Barrow of Pinson is the only student in Alabama to receive this award for 2016. She is a student in the Department of Art and Art History.
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Hands-on Learning in Puerto Rico
In May 2016 ten Blazers went to Puerto Rico for Dr. Maddox's Spanish and Service Learning program.
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DFLL at the UAB EXPO 2016
It was a grand day for the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the UAB EXPO 2016.
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A Summer Mystery, with a Twist
With one of UAB's inaugural President's Summer Research scholarships, undergraduate Marina Triplett is exploring a DNA topology puzzle that could point to better cancer drugs.
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