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  • Alabama EPSCoR grants awarded to five UAB students
    Alabama EPSCoR grants awarded to five UAB students
    Chandrima Kartik, Tom Samuel, Tanvir Chowdhury, Md Ibnul Rahman, Muhammad Shiraz Ahmad, graduate students at UAB have received research grants from Alabama EPSCoR.
  • Patent coins honor UAB inventors
    Patent coins honor UAB inventors
    Forty UAB inventors were named on 17 patents in fiscal year 2024. Through the new patent coin recognition program from UAB’s Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, these faculty and staff, along with patent holders moving forward, are receiving special tokens honoring their hard work and dedication.
  • 2025 winners of the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
    2025 winners of the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
    The Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes full-time, regular faculty members of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in teaching. Award winners must have held faculty status at UAB for a minimum of three years and may receive the award only once in any three-year period.