Faculty Excellence
UAB Professor Receives Award to Compare History, Memory
Andrew Demshuk, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, has received a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award that will enable him to pursue a comparative history of post-1945 reconstruction and urban planning in three cities divided by Cold War borders — Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, Leipzig, East Germany, and Wrocław, western Poland.
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Preserving the Past: Unearthing the Stories of What Came Before
Pamela Sterne King, an assistant professor of history at UAB and former historic preservation officer for the city of Birmingham, wants students to learn about the city’s "often-forgotten fun personality."
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Ryan Honored for Efforts to Help Homeless Receive Cancer Care
Cynthia Ryan is known for her ability to tie academia to community service. The two-time breast cancer survivor has made homeless people with cancer her main focus, publishing several articles about the issue.
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UAB Produces the First-ever Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society
A collaborative effort among UAB faculty has produced the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary and international reference work on all aspects of the social scientific study of health and illness.
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UAB’s Ryan Awarded the Odessa Woolfolk Award
University of Alabama at Birmingham Associate Professor of English Cynthia Ryan, Ph.D., has been named the 2014 recipient of the Odessa Woolfolk Community Service Award for her work in breast cancer awareness, outreach and advocacy.
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Four Faculty Members Recognized by the National Science Foundation
In a stunning achievement, four College faculty members have been awarded CAREER Awards by the National Science Foundation.
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Honors for DFLL Faculty Member
Professor Roberto Mayoral Hernández, PhD, received recognition for Best Presentation of AAFLT 2013, at the recent 2014 SCOLT meeting for his paper titled "Spanish Pronunciation: Legends, Myths, and Common Mistakes."
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UAB’s Quinlan Receives Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction
University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor of English Kieran Quinlan, Ph.D., has been named the winner of the 2014 Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction.
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Mood-sensing Sensor Research Receives Best Paper Award at Annual Conference
A research paper on detecting human mood using sensors in mobile devices from postdoctoral fellow Munirul Haque, Ph.D., in the laboratory of Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Computer Science, has been selected as the best paper at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2013 International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems.
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David Shealy, Other College Faculty and Staff Honored for Years of Service to UAB
When David Shealy, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Physics, accepted an assistant professor position at UAB in 1973, he had no idea he would one day be honored for more than 40 years of service to the university.
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Doss and Corley Honored for their Years of Service
Professors Harriet Amos Doss and Robert Corley were among the nearly 300 employees who will be honored during this year’s UAB Service Awards Program.
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UAB Professor’s Insights on Religion in Prisons Published in New Book
It is not uncommon for prison inmates to claim that a spiritual experience has changed their nature and made them a better person. Kent Kerley, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Justice Sciences, has heard these stories and examined religion-based programs to discover the effect they have on inmates who are still imprisoned.
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UAB Professor Pens Book on Director of Some of the Greatest Movies of All Time
University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor Larry Powell, Ph.D., co-wrote a book that gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look into the making of some of the greatest movies of all time.
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Lewis Featured in New Video
In Conservatism in the Black Community: To the Right and Misunderstood, Angela Lewis (Government, African American Studies) examines the true level of support for conservatism among blacks at the grassroots level in light of the growing prominence of a number of black conservative political intellectuals.
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Dan Warner Selected as 2014 Bartholomew Award Winner
The Department of Biology congratulates Dan Warner, who was selected as the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology's 2014 Bartholomew Award winner.
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Lewis Featured in New Video
The Department's Angela Lewis recently sat down to discuss her recent book, Conservatism in the Black Community: To the Right and Misunderstood, which attempts to unravel the the political phenomenon of conservatism in Black communities.
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Gunther-Canada Honored by National Alumni Society
UAB's National Alumni Society (NAS) honored five people, including the Department of Government's Wendy Gunther Canada, at the 13th annual Alumni Leadership Recognition Awards Luncheon.
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Forman Honored by The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham
Michele Forman, Director of the College of Arts and Sciences' Media Studies Program, will be honored by The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham.
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Cynthia Ryan Receives the 2013 Sam Brown Bridge Builder Award
The Department of English's Cynthia Ryan and Jennifer Kilgo, professor of Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education, are the recipients of the 2013 Sam Brown Bridge Builder Award.
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