Student Achievement

Undergraduate Neuroscience Program's Outstanding Seniors: John Chancellor
John Chancellor, a senior majoring in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, writes about his experiences in the program and at UAB.
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Undergraduate Neuroscience Program's Outstanding Seniors: Nathan Larinde
Nathan Larinde, a senior majoring in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, writes about his experiences in the program and at UAB.
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Undergraduate Neuroscience Program's Outstanding Seniors: Amy Stewart
Amy Stewart, a senior majoring in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, writes about her experiences in the program and at UAB.
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Chemistry Graduate Student Named Recipient of NIH/NIDCR Fellowship
Bhavitavya Sonia Nijampatnam, a graduate student in the UAB Department of Chemistry, has been named the recipient of a National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research pre-doctoral fellowship.
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Better Brain Training for an Aging World
Jarrod M. Hicks is looking for a smarter way to sharpen aging minds. Combining algorithms and brain scans, this senior math and neuroscience major in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences is trying to understand how cognitive training strengthens neural networks.
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Undergraduate Neuroscience Program's Outstanding Seniors: Jarrod Hicks
Jarrod Hicks, a senior majoring in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, writes about his experiences in the program and at UAB.
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Undergraduate Neuroscience Program's Outstanding Seniors: Rhiana Simon
Rhiana Simon, a senior majoring in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, writes about her experiences in the program and at UAB.
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UAB Junior Heading to West Africa After Landing Competitive Scholarship
Shanquela Williams, junior social work major, will spend the spring semester in Ghana as part of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship program.
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Study Abroad: Neuroscience Major Picks Up New Skills in London
Andrew Viegas, a senior majoring in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, writes about studying abroad at University College London during the 2015 fall semester.
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DFLL Wins 2nd Place in Service Learning Category at UAB Expo
DFLL students DeAngalo Nesby, M. Amy Hardison and Jenifer Montejo won the Second Place Award at the UAB Expo for Service Learning for their poster Addressing the Healthcare Needs of Hispanic Patients in Clinical Settings in Alabama.
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From Eastside Birmingham to the Cori Supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joshua Pritchett will take his B.S. degree in computer and information sciences to California and work with burst buffer technology.
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UAB Senior Luke McClintock First-round Finalist for Highly Competitive Hertz Fellowship
Approximately 600 students apply for the Hertz Fellowship each year; only 15 percent are invited for a first-round interview.
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Tell Me a Story
Designed for students looking to hone their writing skills, the EH 091 writing course has, for a couple of years, given students a platform to tell their own “literacy stories.”
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Graduate Student Stephanie Momeni Wins Research Awards
Stephanie Momeni, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biology and Dental Academic Research Training predoctoral fellow in UAB’s School of Dentistry, has been selected for two awards for her research in the past month.
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The Roots of Rhythm: Music Students Take Notes from Birmingham's Jazz History
UAB’s polished, powerful Jazz Ensemble descends from a long jazz tradition in Birmingham.
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UAB Piano Students Win State Music Teachers National Association Competition
Sophomore Eamon Griffith of Birmingham won first place in the Young Artist category, while junior Aleksandra Kasman of Vestavia Hills was named the alternate winner.
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Of Mice and Men
Graduate student Renee Gainer is an animal behaviorist with the UAB Animal Resources Program and was a zookeeper at various zoos for fifteen years. What do these things have in common? Anthropology, believe it or not.
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Graduate Student Zach Lindsey Awarded 2015-16 GRSP Fellowship
Zachary R. Lindsey, a doctoral student in physics, has been awarded a GRSP fellowship for 2015-2016 through the Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program.
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Aleksandra Kasman Wins Second Place in The American Prize in Piano Performance Competition
Pianist Aleksandra Kasman, a junior at UAB, has achieved second place nationally in The American Prize in Piano Performance (Concerto) competition this year.
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34th Mr. and Ms. UAB Scholarship Competition Winners Named
Allie David of Vestavia and Chirag Patel of Enterprise have been named Mr. and Ms. UAB in one of UAB's oldest Homecoming traditions. Emilee Anders of Owens Cross Roads and Piyush Borse of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, were named first alternates.
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