Tag: UAB
Crimestoppers Chairman Gives $10M to UAB To Reduce Crime, Grow Businesses
By Savannah Koplon
UAB News
J. Frank Barefield Jr., president of Abbey Residential and chairman of Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama, has given a $10 million...
Birmingham Health Workers Graduate from Program to Full Time Jobs
By Anthony Cook
Alabama NewsCenter Staff
Fourteen community health workers from the Birmingham area have graduated from the newly launched Path to Wellness initiative, which is...
Adolescent Center at Children’s of Alabama Grows in Importance
By Nicole S. Daniel
The Birmingham Times
With young people facing more challenges today with mental health, social media and psychosocial changes, the Adolescent Health Center...
UAB baseball player benefits from emergency care after eye injury
By Caleb Jones
American Optometric Association statistics show that about 90 million Americans participate in sports. With any sport, players must assume the risk of injury,...
Meet the 13-Year-Old Accepted to UAB Medical School
The Birmingham Times
Alena Wicker may only be 13, but she’s been busy. A nominee for TIME’s Top Kid of the Year, the college student and founder of The...
UAB Names Daryl Green Next Chief of Police
By Alicia Rohan
UAB News
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has named Daryl Green, Ph.D., as the associate vice president of Public Safety and chief of UAB Police following a...
UAB’s Selwyn M. Vickers To Lead Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
www.mskcc.org
UAB’s Selwyn M. Vickers, MD, an internationally recognized pancreatic cancer surgeon and researcher, a pioneer in cancer health disparities research, and an academic medical...
The World Games 2022 Announces Day Pass to See Multiple Sports...
By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
With the beginning of The World Games 2022 in Birmingham less than a month away, TWG2022 has announced that, for a limited time,...
Community Leaders, UAB’s HealthSmart Offering Healthier Food Options
By Matt Windsor
UAB
When Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in 1963, he was actually behind bars in Titusville,...
Dr. Mona Fouad Recognized Again For Stellar Work at UAB
By Adam Pope
UAB News
The Vilcek Foundation and The Arnold P. Gold Foundation have selected Mona Fouad, M.D., to receive the 2022 Vilcek-Gold Award for...