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In honor of Biomedical and Health Sciences week, faculty, staff, and students volunteered their time at the Community Food Bank of Central Alabama.

The UAB National Alumni Society has awarded the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award to Shannon Houser, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, a graduate of the Department of Health Services Administration and a current faculty member.

UAB OT students and faculty met with lawmakers during AOTA Hill Day 2025. UAB brought one of the larger delegations—16 entry-level OTD students and three faculty. 

Join UAB Biotechnology on Oct. 23 at 1:30 for a special film screening of the documentary Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution, in the Hill Student Center’s Alumni Theater.

UAB Biomedical Sciences opens a new website students Rebecca Vales and Chloe Roth were selected to co-present at the Breaking the Boundaries: Reimagining Research and Clinical Practice for a Healthier Tomorrow in New Orleans, LA.

Our PhD in Nutrition Sciences alumni spotlight is on Christian Behrens, Jr., PhD, RD, class of 2020. He shares with our students about careers outside of academia.

Low vision specialists from across South Africa gathered in Johannesburg in August for the Low Vision Matters More conference. The event, aimed at advancing the nation’s low vision care, was the second co-sponsored by the UAB School of Health Professions and the Low Vision Centre of Learning.

Jennifer Morgan has been named senior director of development at the UAB School of Health Professions.

Department of Occupational Therapy students spent a day at Vulcan Park and Museum as part of the City Is Our Classroom series, which is designed to help them connect classroom concepts like social determinants of health and environmental justice to real places and lived experiences.

UAB alumnus Chuck Stokes (‘83) was a leader, mentor, and someone that many aspired to be. Today, his legacy of service lives on through a fund established to support future leaders in health administration.

Amy Landry, Ph.D., has been awarded the Myron D. Fottler Exceptional Service Award by the Health Care Management (HCM) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM).

Bre McDonald, a first-year student in the UAB PhD in Nutrition Sciences program, has been selected as a 2025-2026 Fellow of the Albert Schweitzer program.

Nancy Borkowski, DBA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, has been named editor of the Journal of Health Administration Education (JHAE), effective July 1, 2025.

Amy Goss, Ph.D., FASN, associate professor in the UAB Department of Nutrition Sciences, has been named an Excellence in Nutrition Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN).

The 2023 cohort of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s M.S. in Health Informatics (MSHI) program – where 26% of graduates are pursuing doctoral degrees – shows you how unique this program is.

The UAB School of Education and Human Sciences has recognized Tracee Synco, PhD, of the Department of Physical Therapy as its recipient of the 2025 Exemplary Alumni Award.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Physical Therapy is proud to recognize Ashley Parish, PT, DPT, PhD, CRT, for earning two national honors.

A recent 10-day education abroad program in South Africa gave Department of Occupational Therapy students and faculty a firsthand look at the profession through a global lens.