Look back at a successful summer on campus

Eight UAB employees, all wearing green, walk on the track at the UAB Campus Rec Center Photo by Macy Moon
Blazers get their steps in and enjoy conversations during the Be Seen Walking in Green event July 17 at the Campus Recreation Center. This was one of several community-building events created by the UAB Staff Council.

More than a dozen campers gather under the shade of a tree on the UAB Campus Green Photo by Jennifer Alsabrook-Turner
UAB summer camps give young people the chance to have fun, learn about in-demand careers and hone their sports skills. Here, a summer camp group enjoys some shade on the Campus Green. See more summer camp photos in this story from the College of Arts and Sciences

Exterior view of the corner of the new 14th Street Parking Deck Photo by Ian Logue
In June, UAB opened its first new parking deck in more than 20 years. The 14th Street Parking Deck, now open to UAB commuters and the public, adds more than 1,150 spaces to campus. Learn more

A student wearing a suit points to his poster while making a point to a judge at the Expo Photo by Ian Logue
Omari Whitlow, junior majoring in Biomedical Sciences and member of the UAB Honors College Personalized Pathway program, explains his research on cancer and digital health literacy to a UAB physician at the Summer 2024 Expo on July 25. Nearly 300 students presented at this year’s summer edition of the Expo, which showcases undergraduate research, scholarship and creativity at UAB. Hear more from Whitlow and other Expo presenters in this UAB Reporter story

Railroad Park, seen at night across the park's pond with Birmingham's skyline beyond Photo by Andrea Mabry
The city looks luminous under the stars from the vantage point of Railroad Park in June.

Cara Morantz, Ed.D., associate professor in the Department of Music and assistant director of Bands at UAB, directs the UAB Summer Band in front of a large American flag Photo by Ian Logue
Showers forced the annual Summer Band Concert to move under cover of Bartow Arena’s roof on July 4, but the rain did not dampen the patriotic mood or music under the direction of Cara Morantz, Ed.D., associate professor in the Department of Music and assistant director of Bands at UAB. The Summer Band is open to Birmingham-area amateur and professional musicians, including college students from any school and upper-division high school musicians.

Grounds crew member pauses with clippers at the ready in the ornamental flowerbed on the Campus Green Photo by Jennifer Alsabrook-Turner
Grounds Coordinator Scott Glenn plants cannas in an ornamental horticulture bed on the Campus Green in May.

Members of the Eastlake Neighborhood Association walk on a sidewalk during a grand opening Photo by Jennifer Alsabrook-Turner
Members of the East Lake Neighborhood Association speak with UAB’s Trina Holmes (right), community engagement manager with the UAB-led Live HealthSmart Alabama initiative, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in May celebrating improvements to the neighborhood’s Downey Park made through Live HealthSmart Alabama.

A physician and patient seen through the bore of the scanner Photo by Jennifer Alsabrook-Turner
Steven Rothenberg, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Radiology, attends to a simulated patient in the Siemens Healthineers NAEOTOM Alpha photon-counting CT scanner in UAB Hospital North Pavilion during a photoshoot in July. Rothenberg, a diagnostic radiologist, also is a serial entrepreneur and is cofounder and president of Empower Therapeutics, a digital therapeutics company developing brain computer interfaces for pain management.