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Office of the Provost
Provost search committee namedPresident Carol Z. Garrison has named a search committee for the provost position.
Read more...UAB launches mobile app
The new free UAB Mobile app puts access to the campus directory, UAB news, Blazer sports info, Blackboard, campus assistance and more at your fingertips. Read about it at www.uab.edu/app or watch this video. Download it now at iTunes. Coming soon to Android users.
Student Success Alert SystemUAB has improved its Student Success Alert System for the spring 2012 semester so that faculty can notify and help at-risk students in their courses. The new system is available for all courses and is accessible through the Faculty tab on BlazerNET. Training sessions are available. For more information visit www.uab.edu/studentalert .
Virtual Toolbox for FacultyThe Office of the Vice Provost for Student and Faculty Success has designed a virtual toolbox to serve as a quick, on-line, reference guide to the information most pertinent to faculty members and instructors.
Read more...UAB's undergraduate catalog goes online
On November 10, 2011, Interim Provost Linda Lucas announced that UAB's 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog is now online. The new catalog site features details about majors, courses, programs, faculty, and other listings in a user-friendly format that provides quick links to important information.
Read more...Student
- Medical students perform for charity
- Green and Gold goes pink for UAB Women’s Basketball
- UAB graphic design students, faculty win big with Addy awards
- UAB students win at regional Kennedy Center Theater Festival
- B-ALERT prepared employees, students for deadly Jan. 23 tornado
- Volker Hall renovations will enhance, increase study space
- Students to construct a 20-foot concrete canoe to race
- Campus Rec Center has you covered from Aqua to Zumba
- UAB Discussion Book Dialogues series continues with student films
- UAB students provide free tax preparation
- UAB students building 20-foot concrete canoe for competition
- UAB to commemorate Black History Month
- Art History grad students to present research: papal tombs, medieval caskets
- UAB president honors leaders in diversity
- Fantasy novel is BookTalk’s February pick
Faculty and Staff
- Teachers learn to encourage writing across the curriculum
- Trustees name emeriti faculty
- Four awarded endowed professorships
- Endowed chair holders named
- Powers named associate professor emeritus in business
- Haeberle appointed associate professor emeritus in government
- Twieg named professor emeritus in biomedical engineering
- Ideker named professor emeritus in cardiovascular disease
- Harrell named professor emerita of neurology
- Brouillette named research professor emerita in chemistry
- Pappas named to endowed professorship in infectious diseases
- Allison named to endowed professorship in public health
- Rosenthal appointed division director of otolaryngology
- Randall appointed to endowed professorship in rheumatology
- Forero-Torres named to breast cancer research endowed professorship
photo of Linda Lucas, interim provost Linda Lucas, PhD, Interim Provost
Our students, faculty and staff exhibit a relentless commitment to learning and a dedication to improving our global society. My goal as Provost is to work with deans and others to serve the needs of our UAB community by supporting their academic pursuits and advancing new initiatives in education, research and service. Working together, we can better the quality of life for many citizens and inspire our students to realize their dreams.
