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
Give a month of the arts — including a live holiday concert by Eric Essix — with the Virtual Arts Pass for $29. Add an Alabama artisan box for just $20 more.
UAB global engagement opportunities continue for students amid travel restrictions.
Due to COVID-19, the UAB Gospel Choir did not get to visit Wales and the Urdd National Eisteddfod choir competition as planned, so they’re singing in Welsh for a virtual trans-Atlantic collaboration.
UAB hopes to gather the stories of students, faculty, staff and health care workers during the COVID-19 era and document them for historical purposes.
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center presents Eric Essix in concert, now a virtual event at a new date and time.
Shawn Galin, Ph.D., trains health care providers using standardized patients — trained to portray patients exhibiting signs of disease and injury — through UAB’s Center for Interprofessional Education and Simulation.
Eric Mobley, a UAB engineering graduate who also studied music, won first prize in the 2020 National Federation of Music Clubs Composition Competition.
With a thrilling script performed live and unfolding in real time, a dozen college students work through a tangled web of mistaken identities, accidental revelations and conflicting values.
Donate to Blazers Against Hunger, a one-day crowdfunding campaign to raise money for Blazer Kitchen and fight food insecurity for UAB students.
Find your favorite Blazer merchandise easily with the new one-stop shop that offers online and in-person retail opportunities.