Matt Windsor
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December 19, 2024
What’s coming at UAB in 2025
Mark your calendars for these major events on campus coming next year.
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Campus News
December 17, 2024
Project to predict and prevent apnea in premature babies receives Blazer Bridge Fund support
After studying thousands of hours of data from heart rate monitors, UAB clinician-researchers developed algorithms to predict when a baby’s heart rate will drop to unsafe levels in the NICU. With funding from UAB’s Harbert Institute, they will now conduct a clinical trial of a device they have created to intervene automatically.
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Discoveries & Innovations
December 16, 2024
Health Services Foundation awards $1.5 million in General Endowment Fund grants for 2024
A 3D printer for prosthetics, navigation for patients on dialysis and a new electron microscope are three of the 11 projects to receive funding. The HSF-GEF faculty grants program is a way for UAB to support innovative ideas from its researchers and clinicians.
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Funding Opportunities
December 11, 2024
UAB completes its eighth Habitat for Humanity house
Built by 217 Blazer volunteers, the Bessemer home was dedicated with a ceremony Dec. 6, allowing the Coach family to move in before the holidays.
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UAB in the Community
December 02, 2024
UAB’s health physics program prepares you for the most interesting job you have never heard of
Meet two UAB employees who are recent graduates of the master’s program in the School of Health Professions, along with the program’s leaders. Grads with health physics training are “in really high demand,” said program director Emily Caffrey, Ph.D.
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Programs & Curricula
November 21, 2024
GenAI is changing how professors teach writing. This faculty member has built a place to talk about “the conundrums that plague me.”
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT pose all kinds of questions for the future of writing instruction. Meagan Malone, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of English, has launched a website and blog called Composing in the Age of GenAI to share ideas and resources and spark conversations with others in the field.
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Teaching & Learning
November 21, 2024
Brand Launch Party draws a crowd
Nearly 1,500 t-shirts and 750 hats with UAB’s new logo were distributed at the Brand Launch Party on Nov. 14 at the UAB Bookstore. See photos and a list of winners of UAB-branded water bottles.
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Campus News
November 14, 2024
Adult ADHD diagnoses soared during the pandemic. This expert says it is still undertreated.
About half of the estimated 15.5 million American adults who have ADHD were diagnosed during adulthood. UAB’s Rachel Fargason, M.D., who has specialized in adult ADHD for three decades, explains how she diagnoses the condition, why COVID triggered people to seek help, and why treatment is remarkably effective and life-changing.
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Be Healthy
A partnership among UAB Sustainability, UAB Energy Management and the Collat School of Business allowed the school to save 40 percent on its monthly utility bills in July 2024 and unlock ongoing reductions in energy use.
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Sustainability
November 05, 2024
How UAB is taking a leading role in health promotion worldwide
Innovative programs and a high-profile position in the International Health Promoting Campuses Network have made UAB a model for other universities in the United States and beyond.
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UAB in the Community
