Name the new UAB bus system
Posted on 07. May, 2013 in News
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Employees and students are invited to participate in a contest to name the new UAB bus system. Visit www.uab.edu/namethebus and fill out the name submission form. An Apple iPad Mini will be awarded to the winner. If there are multiple submissions with the same winning name, a random drawing from those submissions will be held to determine the winner. The contest will begin May 7 and all submissions are due by May 21.
UA System Board of Trustees approves new UAB transit s… Read More
Trioscapes comes to Birmingham
Posted on 01. May, 2013 in News
At 8 p.m. on a cool Monday night in Woodlawn (a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama), bassist Dan Briggs, 28, stepped out of his car onto 1st Avenue North with a takeout order from Shangri La.
With only 30 minutes to go before the show, Briggs didn’t have enough time to eat his vegan meal. He took a quick bite, left his dinner in the band’s North Carolina van and walked into a DIY venue, The Forge, to sell some merchandise.
A little after 8:30 p.m., the opener Evan Brewer came on. B… Read More
‘Eureka! We found the answer’
Posted on 30. Apr, 2013 in News
UAB undergraduate students pose their research topics for competition… Read More
The sixth annual UAB Exposition of Excellence was held Friday morning, April 26, 2013 at the Campus Recreation Center.
In 2012, nearly 200 undergraduates participated in the student-planned and led event. The event saw a strong 33 percent increase in submissions from last year.
Students from all across campus assembled to present their research and participate in a forum for cutting edge research to
Ancient theory of heart disease
Posted on 30. Apr, 2013 in News
Clogged arteries have always been thought of as a symptom of an unhealthy modern lifestyle.
However, a recent discovery of atherosclerosis in CT of mummies from ancient civilizations suggests the picture is incomplete.
“Atherosclerosis (AS) is a chronic, systemic, and multifactorial disease. Risk factors contribute to initial arterial injury and subsequent response, which leads to AS,” said Dr. Satinder Singh, Professor of Radiology and Medicine at UAB.
As the… Read More
Sneezy, Snow White’s allergy dwarf
Posted on 30. Apr, 2013 in News
Sneezing, wheezing, and coughing are just some of the symptoms that seasonal allergies can stir up. One sinus expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) said despite a late spring, the summer allergy season will be strong.
Allergies are one of the most chronic conditions to plague people worldwide, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, with pollen being one of the top allergens.
“Tree pollen has been bad for several weeks no… Read More
HUC set to be torn down and reborn
Posted on 30. Apr, 2013 in News
This summer till late fall, the HUC will be torn down and the $48.5 million project to build the new student center will begin. The new student center is planned to be complete by Fall of 2015.
“Even though the completion date is Fall 2015, I think it will be well worth the wait and there will be a wow-factor with students. There was great excitement when the Campus Recreation Center came on board, and I think the new student center will be a caliber of that facility,” said Mike Sa… Read More
Sexual assault awareness
Posted on 26. Apr, 2013 in News
Various technology advances to assist emergency situations… Read More
With April being Sexual Assault Awareness Month, many organizations are helping educate the community about sexual assault, how it happens, how to avoid it, and how to recover.
Sexual assault is not something to joke about on a college campus, especially because it is in the heart of an emerging metropolitan city. Birmingham is a growing city and with more people, crime rates will respectively raise as well.
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25 years with the 1917 AIDS clinic
Posted on 26. Apr, 2013 in News
The first cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the United States appeared in the early 1980s. A short time later, the 1917 Clinic at UAB opened to take on the disease. Now, 25 years later, the clinic is going strong and celebrating all of the birthdays achieved through its research, education, and care.
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“Around the mid-1980s, more and more patients with AIDS-related illnesses were being referred to UAB from across state,” said Michael Saag, M.D., UAB p
Facebook app happy
Posted on 24. Apr, 2013 in News
On April 12, Facebook launched what was supposed to be a game-changing app, Facebook Home.
Facebook announced the HTC First which would come installed with the app and that the app would also replace the home screen on Samsung Galaxy SIII, S4, Note II and the HTC One and One-X. Home is an overlay of the basic android home screen, like Samsung’s touch wiz (the interface on SIII, S4, etc.)
When a user turns on his/her screen, a slide show of information will appear from the news fee… Read More
Boston bombing search continues; families nostalgic
Posted on 23. Apr, 2013 in News
“Boston is the wrong city to mess with.”
-President Obama… Read More
This past Friday, Black Hawk helicopters and a heavily armed police force descended on a Boston suburb in search of an ethnic Chechen suspected of being involved in the Boston Marathon bombings.
The two men, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, legally immigrated to the United States with their family in 2002 after living in Russia.
Tamerlan studied engineering four years ago at Bunker Hill Communi