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UAB Students to Show Photographic Exhibition in Shelby County

UAB photography students have taken their work on the road and will open an exhibition, “Accidental Grace: Photographs Made in and About the South” on Friday, June 26, at the Shelby County Arts Council Gallery in Columbiana. Read more

UAB’s Nole Jones to Compete in Musical Theater Nationally July 7

Rising UAB senior and music and theatre major Nole Jones will compete at the National Association of Teachers of Singing National Student Auditions in Greensboro, North Carolina, on July 7. Read more

Aleksandra Kasman Wins National High Point University Piano Competition

University of Alabama at Birmingham student Aleksandra Kasman won the inaugural High Point University 2015 Piano Competition on Saturday, June 6. Read more

Fourteen Students Named to UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences Fellows Program

A group of UAB’s incoming doctoral students have been selected as recipients of the UAB Graduate Fellow in the Arts and Sciences award. Read more

Two Social Work Students Receive Department Awards

Christa Mojica was named the 2015 Outstanding Social Work Student of the Year and Lee Allen was named the recipient of the 2015 Noman Eggleston Student Award. Read more

UAB Music Technology Majors Complete AVID Pro Tools Training, Certification

Eight music technology students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have successfully passed the AVID Pro Tools certification exam. Read more

UAB Biology Graduate Student Awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship

UAB Department of Biology graduate student Mary Latimer was recently awarded the 2015-2016 STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship. Read more

Aleksandra Kasman Wins National Music Club Auditions

Aleksandra Kasman is a winner in the National Federation of Music Clubs Student/Collegiate Auditions. Kasman, of Vestavia Hills, is a junior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is majoring in music in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Music and is in the UAB Honors College’s University Honors Program. Read more
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Honors Abound for Graduating Students at UAB

Earning a college degree is one of the defining moments of accomplishment in life. For some among the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s graduating class this spring, that success was sweetened with the added honors of awards, fellowships and scholarships.

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Shannon Cheryl Woods

Mother and Daughter Set to Graduate Together at UAB

Shannon Cheryl Woods and her mom Kirsten Woods will both graduate with degrees from UAB on April 25. Kirsten is graduating with a degree from the UAB College of Arts and Sciences

 

Department of Psychology

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Look for “the Rock People” in the Emergency Department, Operating Room and ICU

UAB undergraduate Paige Farley is one of the "rock people.” That’s the nickname from University Hospital doctors, nurses and staffers as Farley roams the teeming medical center wearing black scrubs with the monogram “ROC, Alabama Resuscitation Center.”

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Students, Faculty Recognized at Justice Sciences Honors and Awards Luncheon

The Department of Justice Sciences recognized its outstanding students at the department's 2014-2015 Honors and Awards Luncheon on April 22.

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UAB Recognizes Largest Honors Group Ever for Securing National, International Fellowships

Fifty-one students were recognized for being named finalists or winners of national and international fellowships.

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Physics-Chemistry Major Luke McClintock

Physics-Chemistry Major Luke McClintock Named 2015 Goldwater Scholar

UAB physics and chemistry major Luke McClintock has been named a 2015 Goldwater Scholar.

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UAB Physics Department Annual Awards Day - 2015

UAB Physics undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff all gathered for the department’s Annual Awards Day on April 17, 2015.

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Grad Student Ustun Sunay Awarded 2015 NREIP Internship

Graduate student Ustun Sunay was awarded a 10-week summer internship sponsored by the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program.  Read more

History Student Takes Lessons from the Dead at Oak Hill Cemetery

When thinking of prospective places to complete an internship, a cemetery is not exactly what comes to mind — unless you’re history student Dana Dawson, that is. Dana enjoys the hands-on learning and, well, the quiet that comes with working at Oak Hill Cemetery. Read more

Chemistry Scholar Calla McCulley Selected for NSF-Funded Summer REU Program

Chemistry undergraduate student and Chemistry Scholar Calla McCulley was one of the nine individuals selected for the NSF-Funded Summer REU Program at Bristol and Bath for this July-August 2015. Read more

PhD Student Sonal Singh Hired by Global Foundries

Dr. Sonal Singh has accepted a position at GLOBAL FOUNDRIES (a semiconductor manufacturing company) as a 'Senior Defect Engineer - Technology Development’. Read more

New Exhibition Shows Works by Graduating BFA Students at AEIVA, April 20-May 1

Works by graduating students from the Department of Art and Art History will be on exhibition from April 20-May 1 in the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts. Read more