Find out how UAB faculty help Honors College students connect through engaging extracurricular activities — and meet the 2025-2026 Honors Faculty Fellows cohort.

Karim Mikhail majored in neuroscience and philosophy, led a successful undergraduate career at UAB thanks to the strong mentorship both programs have to offer, and found lifelong friends working as an International Mentor.

Free will still exists, and no brains are “typical”: Philosopher Josh May, Ph.D., shares some of the lessons he picked up by going back to school and joining a research lab to write “Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science,” which was selected as one of the top academic titles of 2024.

Brynn Welch, Ph.D., has received the 2024 David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching, and Lindsay Brainard, Ph.D., received the 2024 Article Prize.

Decorated ethicist George Lucas will address the hopeful uses of emergent military technologies to promote stability, reduce human suffering, and counter the prevailing conflict and war tendencies.