The Blazer Bridge Fund encourages discovery among the UAB community by providing financial support to innovative ideas and inventions.

Chandrima Kartik, Tom Samuel, Tanvir Chowdhury, Md Ibnul Rahman, Muhammad Shiraz Ahmad, graduate students at UAB have received research grants from Alabama EPSCoR.

Forty UAB inventors were named on 17 patents in fiscal year 2024. Through the new patent coin recognition program from UAB’s Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, these faculty and staff, along with patent holders moving forward, are receiving special tokens honoring their hard work and dedication.

UAB assistant professor in the Department of Physics has been awarded over $250,000 in funding for research on quantum simulation.

Through the Magic City Data Collective, UAB students work on data-driven projects that have impacted an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 Birmingham residents.

The GAANN program will support five physics Ph.D. students with an annual competitive stipend up to $37,000, along with an additional yearly educational allowance to cover graduate tuition and other costs.

Yager’s journey as a Blazer is filled with institutional, national and international recognition; her most recent milestone is her unique patented catalytic reactor for NASA missions that has multiple applications in various other industries.

Blazer Bridge Fund provides financial support to innovative ideas and inventions by the UAB community, encouraging advanced discovery. 

Vohra is leading the Center for Additively Manufactured Complex Systems under Extremes at UAB in advancing understanding of 3D-printed materials when subjected to extremes of pressures, temperatures and high-velocity impacts.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is addressing light pollution with new Campus SHINE at UAB program.

Nine University of Alabama at Birmingham students have been awarded NASA Alabama Space Grant Consortium scholarships and fellowships.

UAB’s strategic planning continues to blaze its path to improve more lives by leveraging construction projects that include new and enhanced facilities across the institution, blooming green spaces and art installations.