Student Achievement
UAB’s Bloom Studio, Digital Media Selected as 2016 American Advertising Awards Agency of Record
UAB's Bloom Studio and Digital Media have been invited to be the agency of record for the 2016 Birmingham American Advertising Awards.
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Storytelling that Sells: Students Blend Creativity with Technology to Wow Clients and Employers
UAB’s unique Digital Media Fellowship program has won prestigious awards and helped new graduates to land coveted jobs in just three short years.
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UAB English Major Wins Best Student Film at Sidewalk 2015
If you’re not making discoveries, something is wrong, says UAB English major Kelsey Harrison, winner of the 17th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival's “Best Student Film” for her work “Coming and Going.”
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Catching the Neuroscience Bug
Meet Nate Harnett, a member of the UAB Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars Program who exchanged music studies for a science career.
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Kasman Takes First Place at International Keyboard Institute and Festival
Out of a talented international pool of 33 pianists, junior Aleksandra Kasman took the top prize at the 2015 International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York City on Aug. 2.
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UAB Senior Wins William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship
Elora Robbani, a senior philosophy major in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship to study at American University in Dubai this fall.
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UAB Students Use Performance, Interactivity and Alternative Materials to Create Art for One-night-only Exhibition Aug. 5
Sculptural objects, masks, puppets, performances and art installations created by Department of Art and Art History students will be shown in a one-night-only exhibition.
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Learning Behind Bars: Students Take Part in Solutions for Prison Overcrowding
What’s the cure for America’s overcrowded prisons? UAB criminal justice students went behind bars and into courtrooms to explore promising solutions. Discover what they experienced while working with inmate mothers and military veterans receiving a second chance — and learn how the projects changed both attitudes and career goals.
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UAB Gospel Choir Member Shares Her Experience as a Volunteer in Uganda
Halli Williamson of Oneonta, a business and music student, is working with children in need and their families as an intern with Sozo Children this summer.
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Office of Undergraduate Research Summer EXPO to be Held July 24
UAB's Office of Undergraduate Research will host nearly 200 student presentations during its Summer Expo on Friday, July 24.
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UAB Students to Show Photographic Exhibition in Shelby County
UAB photography students have taken their work on the road and will open an exhibition, “Accidental Grace: Photographs Made in and About the South” on Friday, June 26, at the Shelby County Arts Council Gallery in Columbiana.
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UAB’s Nole Jones to Compete in Musical Theater Nationally July 7
Rising UAB senior and music and theatre major Nole Jones will compete at the National Association of Teachers of Singing National Student Auditions in Greensboro, North Carolina, on July 7.
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Aleksandra Kasman Wins National High Point University Piano Competition
University of Alabama at Birmingham student Aleksandra Kasman won the inaugural High Point University 2015 Piano Competition on Saturday, June 6.
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Fourteen Students Named to UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences Fellows Program
A group of UAB’s incoming doctoral students have been selected as recipients of the UAB Graduate Fellow in the Arts and Sciences award.
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Two Social Work Students Receive Department Awards
Christa Mojica was named the 2015 Outstanding Social Work Student of the Year and Lee Allen was named the recipient of the 2015 Noman Eggleston Student Award.
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UAB Music Technology Majors Complete AVID Pro Tools Training, Certification
Eight music technology students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have successfully passed the AVID Pro Tools certification exam.
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UAB Biology Graduate Student Awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship
UAB Department of Biology graduate student Mary Latimer was recently awarded the 2015-2016 STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship.
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Aleksandra Kasman Wins National Music Club Auditions
Aleksandra Kasman is a winner in the National Federation of Music Clubs Student/Collegiate Auditions. Kasman, of Vestavia Hills, is a junior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is majoring in music in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Music and is in the UAB Honors College’s University Honors Program.
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Honors Abound for Graduating Students at UAB
Earning a college degree is one of the defining moments of accomplishment in life. For some among the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s graduating class this spring, that success was sweetened with the added honors of awards, fellowships and scholarships.
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Mother and Daughter Set to Graduate Together at UAB
Shannon Cheryl Woods and her mom Kirsten Woods will both graduate with degrees from UAB on April 25. Kirsten is graduating with a degree from the UAB College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology
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