Student Achievement

CS Student Rajan Kharel Wins First Place in AAS Paper Competition
Rajan Kharel, who recently joined the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab as a MS/PHD student in Fall 2012, wins the first place in the paper competition in the Engineering and Computer Science Section at the 90th annual meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science.
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CS Student Rajan Kharel Wins the First Place in AAS Paper Competition
Rajan Kharel, who recently joined the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab as a MS/PHD student in Fall 2012, wins the first lace in the paper competition in the Engineering and Computer Science Section at the 90th annual meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science.
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PhD Student John Osborne Gets CAS Entrepreneurship Award
UAB College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is pleased to announce the first round of Graduate Student Entrepreneurship Awards.
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College of Arts and Sciences Announces Graduate Student Entrepreneurship Awards
UAB College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is pleased to announce the first round of Graduate Student Entrepreneurship Awards. The goal of this initiative is to promote student innovation and entrepreneurship across graduate programs in CAS.
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Global and Community Vision
Farah Ahmad Al Farhan is not afraid of ambition. She is pursuing a double major in Political Science and Economics along with a minor in French and a concentration in International Relations/Comparative Politics. She is also the recipient of the 2012 Voytek Zubek Memorial Scholarship.
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Where Can a Degree in Political Science Take You?
An understanding of government and society can make you a better professional in many other fields than just law and politics.
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UAB Chemistry Student Michael Longmire Receives ACS Sigma Xi Award
Michael Longmire, junior year Chemistry major, received the Sigma Xi award at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in November 2012.
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Computer Science and Information System Scholarship Recipients 2012–2013
The Department of Computer Science and Information System is proud to recognize all of the 2012-2013 UAB CIS scholarship recipients! We are committed to providing scholarships for undergraduate, graduate, transfer, upperclassmen and international students.
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Research of Grad Student Walter Uhoya Featured in CDAC article
CDAC graduate student Walter Uhoya from UAB and colleagues from Illinois Wesleyan University, Institute of Physics at Taipei, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, HPCAT and UAB, have shown that designer diamond anvil technology for the measurement of electrical resistance can be used at a synchrotron source to perform simultaneous structural and electrical resistance measurements directly at high pressures and low temperatures.
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Chemistry Major Simone Ridgeway Honored
Simone Ridgeway, a senior majoring in chemistry and minoring in Japanese and an honors student in the Science & Technology Honors Program, recently participated in Minority Access' 13th National Role Models Conference in Orlando, FL (Sept 28-30, 2012).
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2012-2013 UPE/ACM Student Chapter Scholarship Award Application
In the search for excellence and professional commitment to the computing and information technology fields, The Executive Council of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the Honor Society for Computing Sciences, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announce the UPE ACM STUDENT CHAPTER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD.
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Internet Identity Scholars Program
Internet Identity (IID), a provider of technologies and services that help organizations secure Internet presence, has graciously sponsored another year of scholarships for students in the computer forensics program.
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CIS Students Present at the AlaSims International Conference
On May 2nd, four CIS students presented their projects from CS 105 at the AlaSims International 2012 in Huntsville.
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Study Away 2012: Peru
In May 2012, 15 UAB students led by Professors Carlos Orihuela (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures) and Pamela Murray (Department of History) arrived in Lima, Peru, for a crash course in the language, culture, and history of one of the most fascinating countries in the Western hemisphere.
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Mock Trial Team Faces Tough Cases and Competition
In April 2012, UAB's mock trial team put in a strong showing at the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) national championships in Minnesota.
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Graduate student Jeff Montgomery selected to attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
The Scientific Review Panel of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings has selected Jeffrey Montgomery, a doctoral student in physics, to participate in the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting that will be held from July 1 to July 6, 2012, in Lindau, Germany.
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Physics Grad Students Awarded Fellowships for 2012-13 Through Graduate Research Scholars Program
Three physics graduate students were awarded fellowships for the 2012-2013 academic year through the Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program.
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UAB Helped Student Write her Future
Ashley Jones knew about the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s reputation for churning out top scientists and physicians. As a rising high-school senior with aspirations of becoming a writer, though, she wondered if UAB would be a good fit.
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Recipients of 2012 Outstanding Physics Students Awards Announced
Physics graduate and undergraduate students were selected as the recipients of this year's outstanding student awards.
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Biology Senior Earns Academic Honor from USA Today
Jessica Bradford, a senior in the UAB Department of Biology and incoming student in the UAB School of Medicine, has been named to the USA Today 2011 All-USA College Academic Second Team.
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