Shannon Thomason
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Public Relations Specialist
thomason@uab.edu | (205) 975-8858Identifies and develops stories that highlight the arts, faculty news, student stories and beyond a UAB. Connects media with experts to enhance their story.
Specific beats:
- Advancement
- The Arts at UAB
- AEIVA
- Alys Stephens Center
- Arts in Medicine
- ArtPlay
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Department of Art and Art History
- Department of Communication Studies
- Department of Music
- Department of Theatre
- Institute for Human Rights
- Department of World Languages and Literatures
- The Graduate School
- Libraries
- National Alumni Society
- WBHM
PRCA/PRSSA at UAB continues to prove itself an award-winning public relations student organization.
Panion, a UAB University Professor of music, will join other music luminaries including Nat “King” Cole, Hank Williams, Lionel Richie, Emmylou Harris and others.
Grammy Award winners Ranky Tanky, from South Carolina’s West African-rooted Gullah community, combine songs carried down through generations with their own original compositions.
UAB Blazers will live the tenets of Creed Week by packing meals for the hungry, engaging in social justice discussions and more.
The MUSE Conference, created by jazz guitarist Eric Essix and UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center, features music industry professionals who will provide musicians with the tools to succeed.
Acclaimed as a post-modern dramatic masterpiece, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play.
Registration is open now for the 17th annual UAB National Alumni Society Scholarship Run, and runners can choose the virtual option or run in person.
Classes are available for babies to adults, from creative movement and music to acting, tap and hip-hop dance, creative writing, standup, and sewing.
Black History Month at UAB brings everyone together for explorations of history, language and Gullah culture, and see “Black Is Beautiful,” Will Downing with Maysa, and Ranky Tanky.
UAB National Alumni Society supports scholarship fund through a bingo night series featuring prizes, food and more.