Faculty Excellence
UAB’s Quinlan Receives Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction
University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor of English Kieran Quinlan, Ph.D., has been named the winner of the 2014 Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction.
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Mood-sensing Sensor Research Receives Best Paper Award at Annual Conference
A research paper on detecting human mood using sensors in mobile devices from postdoctoral fellow Munirul Haque, Ph.D., in the laboratory of Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Computer Science, has been selected as the best paper at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2013 International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems.
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David Shealy, Other College Faculty and Staff Honored for Years of Service to UAB
When David Shealy, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Physics, accepted an assistant professor position at UAB in 1973, he had no idea he would one day be honored for more than 40 years of service to the university.
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Doss and Corley Honored for their Years of Service
Professors Harriet Amos Doss and Robert Corley were among the nearly 300 employees who will be honored during this year’s UAB Service Awards Program.
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UAB Professor’s Insights on Religion in Prisons Published in New Book
It is not uncommon for prison inmates to claim that a spiritual experience has changed their nature and made them a better person. Kent Kerley, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Justice Sciences, has heard these stories and examined religion-based programs to discover the effect they have on inmates who are still imprisoned.
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UAB Professor Pens Book on Director of Some of the Greatest Movies of All Time
University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor Larry Powell, Ph.D., co-wrote a book that gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look into the making of some of the greatest movies of all time.
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Lewis Featured in New Video
In Conservatism in the Black Community: To the Right and Misunderstood, Angela Lewis (Government, African American Studies) examines the true level of support for conservatism among blacks at the grassroots level in light of the growing prominence of a number of black conservative political intellectuals.
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Dan Warner Selected as 2014 Bartholomew Award Winner
The Department of Biology congratulates Dan Warner, who was selected as the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology's 2014 Bartholomew Award winner.
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Lewis Featured in New Video
The Department's Angela Lewis recently sat down to discuss her recent book, Conservatism in the Black Community: To the Right and Misunderstood, which attempts to unravel the the political phenomenon of conservatism in Black communities.
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Gunther-Canada Honored by National Alumni Society
UAB's National Alumni Society (NAS) honored five people, including the Department of Government's Wendy Gunther Canada, at the 13th annual Alumni Leadership Recognition Awards Luncheon.
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Forman Honored by The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham
Michele Forman, Director of the College of Arts and Sciences' Media Studies Program, will be honored by The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham.
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Cynthia Ryan Receives the 2013 Sam Brown Bridge Builder Award
The Department of English's Cynthia Ryan and Jennifer Kilgo, professor of Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education, are the recipients of the 2013 Sam Brown Bridge Builder Award.
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Saxena Wins Google Award for Mobile Security Research
Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Security and Privacy in Emerging computing and networking Systems (SPIES) research group, has received a $50,000 Google Faculty Research Award to develop his work on contextual security, improving mobile-device security using contextual information gathered by device sensors.
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Davis Named Distinguished Professor in History
The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Colin J. Davis as Distinguished Professor in History in the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences during its meeting on Sept. 13, 2013.
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Dr. Benjamin Yancey Wins Travel Grants
Dr. Benjamin Yancey, Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellow for Dr. Sergey Vyazovkin, was recently awarded the Fall 2013 CIBA Young Scientist Travel Award by the Younger Chemists Committee (YCC).
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Parcak Named a National Geographic Fellow
Sarah Parcak, Ph.D., an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), has been named a National Geographic Fellow.
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Dr. Catherine Danielou Wins the Prestigious Ordre des Palmes Académiques
French Professor and CAS Senior Associate Dean Catherine Danielou has won the prestigious Ordre des Palmes Académiques from her home country of France.
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UAB Professor Leveraging Social Networks to Help Visually Impaired Children in Bangladesh
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) professor Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., continues to reach out across the world to help children in need.
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Shadow Warrior: John Grimes
John Grimes remembers the days when intelligence was a “four-letter word” on many college campuses. Now, the career military intelligence officer is finding that undergraduates are eager to learn the fundamentals of modern intelligence community tradecraft in a new course that is set to debut in spring 2014.
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