Student Achievement

CIS Student Receives Best Paper Award in Social Informatics 2014 at Harvard University
Abu Awal Md Shoeb, the lead author of the paper titled "Spam Campaign Cluster Detection Using Redirected URLs and Randomized Sub-Domains", presented their work in the Third ASE international conference on Social Informatics 2014 at Harvard University on December 14, 2014 and received the Best Paper Award.
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UAB Students to Showcase High-impact Community Projects at Clinton Summit
Seventeen University of Alabama at Birmingham students have been selected to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University on March 6-8 at the University of Miami.
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Watch Martez Files Deliver the Fall 2014 Commencement Speech
Martez Files, the undergraduate speaker for the Fall 2014 UAB College of Arts and Sciences commencement ceremony, graduated with a BA in History and a BA in African American Studies.
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Watch Memoir Short Films Created by Students
Over the Fall 2014 semester, students wrote memoirs and then filmed their stories for the interdisciplinary class “Memoir in Writing and Film,” taught by Kerry Madden of English and Michele Forman of the History Department.
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History/African American Studies Major to Give Commencement Speech
Martez Files, the undergraduate speaker for the Fall 2014 morning commencement ceremony, is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and a Bachelor of Arts degree in African American Studies.
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Flow of Ideas
Can graphic design save a river—and a region? Doug Barrett, M.F.A., UAB assistant professor of graphic design in the Department of Art and Art History, and his students have laid out a plan to do just that, creating logos, brochures, signage, and more to draw attention to the Cahaba River and surrounding communities.
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Physics Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients for 2015
The 2015 Physics Scholarship and Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the following Physics undergraduates have been selected for undergraduate scholarships for Spring 2015.
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Witness to History
Clarence Lockett started out as a theatre student focusing on screenwriting. But it was a true-life story that pulled him into filmmaking and changed his college and career goals.
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Lessons from an Internship: Independence, Self-Confidence, and Patience
History student and REV Birmingham intern Stephanie Qualls has become a regular face amongst the cobblestone streets and old buildings of downtown.
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CJ Honors Student Completes Sterne Library Certificate Program
The Department of Justice Sciences is pleased to announce that Santorra King, a senior undergraduate Criminal Justice honors student, has completed Mervyn H. Sterne Library’s Social Science Research Toolkit Certificate Program.
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Third UAB Student Named Rhodes Scholar
Ameen Barghi of the University of Alabama at Birmingham was elected to the Rhodes scholar Class of 2015 on Saturday. He is one of 32 outstanding U.S. students who will start their all-expenses-paid, graduate educations at Oxford University next fall.
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Psychology Student Joins List of Past UAB Winners of Prestigious Research Award
Haley Johnson, a psychology doctoral student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was selected as this year’s sole recipient of the Lizette Peterson-Homer Memorial Injury Research Grant. Johnson was chosen from a pool of 19 elite applicants, and she joins her mentor, Assistant Professor Despina Stavrinos, Ph.D., and Professor David Schwebel, Ph.D., as a winner of this award.
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Mock Trial Teams Excels at Invitational Tournament
UAB’s Mock Trial Team enjoyed successes last weekend at the Middle Tennessee State University Mock Trial Invitational Tournament in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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Barghi, Ryder in the Running for International Academic Honors
Two University of Alabama at Birmingham students are finalists for prestigious scholarship programs. Ameen Barghi, of Birmingham, and Yoonhee Ryder, of Huntsville, have been named finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship, and Ryder also is a finalist for the Marshall Scholarship.
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Ethics Bowl Team Advances to Nationals
In Southeast Regional competition in Tampa, FL, UAB's Ethics Bowl Team won one of four coveted spots to advance to the National Championship Round of 32 teams from 10 national regions in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, Feb.22nd in Costa Mesa, CA.
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Two CAS Students Are Finalists for Rhodes Scholarship
Ameen Barghi and Yoonhee Ryder have been named finalists for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
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Aleksandra Kasman Wins State MTNA Auditions, Will Represent Alabama
Aleksandra Kasman, a University of Alabama at Birmingham sophomore in the Honors Program, won the Alabama Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Young Artist auditions held in Auburn, Alabama, Oct. 31-Nov. 1.
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UAB SAACS Team First Runners Up at Competition
A team from the UAB Student Affiliates American Chemical Society participated in the College Chemistry Bowl competition and Demomania at the 66th Southeastern Regional American Chemical Society meeting held October 16-19 in Nashville, TN.
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History Intern Helps Revitalize Birmingham
Stephanie Qualls has always had a love for history, which is why she wants to teach others about our world and its cultures.
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