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parents_choice UAB wins 9 Parent's Choice awards UAB took top spots in four categories — Best Fertility Specialist, Best Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Best Family-Friendly Company and Best Family Corporation — in Alabama Baby & Child and Birmingham Magazine’s joint 2012 Parent’s Choice Awards.

“Creating a family-friendly environment involves strategic planning to ensure our benefits meet family needs, but also involves day-to-day flexibility to support our employees when they have a specific need.  Our leaders do a great job finding creative ways to meet those individual needs when they arise,” says UAB Health System Human Resources Executive Director Marty Box.

UAB named a National Center of Excellence in Pain Education

3-D MRI improves view of mitral valve disease

UAB Professor Louise Chow elected to National Academy of Sciences

Dentistry to direct national research network with largest grant in UAB history

Breakthroughs

Early education can affect cognitive abilities of seniors Childhood education can predict cognitive performance in later life, says new research from UAB published online in the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.

Researchers reported high student-teacher ratios in schools are associated with worse cognitive function while a longer school year is associated with better cognitive function in older adults.

"Little research has explored the potential impact of quality of education on aging. This issue is particularly relevant for older blacks who grew up during the era of segregated schools, when disparities in educational opportunities were even starker than they are today,” says Michael Crowe, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UAB Department of Psychology and lead author of the study.

New program focuses on environmental health risks The new UAB Program in Environmental and Translational Medicine takes a multi-faceted approach to dealing with health issues tied to environmental origins.

Around Campus

cancer_day National Cancer Survivors Day June 1
Yard sale to benefit UAB CDC June 2

Al Pacino, One Night Only June 15

Jason Isbell "On Stage" for solo acoustic show June 16

UAB Gospel Choir in concert July 29

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