Amy Morgan, Ph.D., has been named the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s first master teacher for UABTeach, a program designed to nurture and train a new teaching force of highly qualified instructors in STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering, and math.

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Education andEngineering, UABTeach lets undergraduate students majoring in math, science or computer science receive both their subject matter degree and full teaching certification in four years. UABTeach is supported with funding from the UTeach Institute, theNational Math and Science Initiative, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.