Matt Windsor
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January 08, 2025
Does pregnancy protect a mom against Alzheimer’s? A new study sheds light on conflicting findings.
Many studies have linked childbearing to a lower risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia later in life. But in a new study, UAB sociologists found that early-life factors, including a woman’s socioeconomic status in adolescence, accounted for the apparent pregnancy-cognitive connection.
Published in
Research Findings
January 06, 2025
AI-enhanced telesitter pilot program aims to improve care and safety of older adults in the ED
A grant from UAB’s Health Services Foundation General Endowment Fund will support a project testing an AI tool trained to predict fall risk and identify signs of delirium in order to improve patient care and safety for older adults in UAB’s Geriatric Emergency Department at UAB Hospital-Highlands.
Published in
Advances
January 03, 2025
Center for Teaching and Learning adds new offices of Learning Technologies and Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
Amy Chatham, Ph.D., has been named executive director of the expanded center. “These offices are here to help faculty and are laser-focused on providing the tools, training and service that enable UAB’s teachers to be the most effective,” said Scott Phillips, Ph.D., vice provost for Innovative Teaching and Academic Engagement.
Published in
Teaching & Learning
December 30, 2024
UAB upgrades research infrastructure with new addition
The $1 million project to install the university’s first bulk dry heat sterilizer was made possible through a grant from the NIH and internal investments as part of the Research Strategic Initiative: Growth with Purpose. Dry heat sterilization is more efficient and saves power and water.
Published in
Campus News
December 19, 2024
What’s coming at UAB in 2025
Mark your calendars for these major events on campus coming next year.
Published in
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.
Published in
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.
Published in
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.
Published in
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.
Published in
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.
Published in
Teaching & Learning
