The Vulcan Materials Academic Success Center is a centralized hub for academic support services that is open to all UAB students, regardless of major or academic standing. One growing offering is academic success coaching, which is available to all students, whether or not they are experiencing problems with grades.

The latest cohort selected for the Blaze Leadership Academy includes 20 faculty and staff from across campus. See the full list of participants in this story.

Take a minute to explore memorable images from August 2025 as selected by UAB's official photographers.

Applications strategies, tough interviews and “camping out in your Google Docs”: The leaders of the National and International Fellowships and Scholarships office share their methods for scholarship success.

UAB Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Katie Crenshaw will serve as vice president for Administration, effective Sept. 1. Crenshaw has been serving in the role in an interim capacity since December.

This eight-month program, designed for emerging leaders at UAB, has a powerful impact, participants say. Hear from program alumni and then apply for this year's cohort; applications are due by Aug. 16. 

Take a minute to explore memorable images from July 2025 as selected by UAB's official photographers.

Temperatures are off the charts in this popular class from associate professor of sculpture Stacey Holloway. Tag along with Holloway and her students for metal pours at the Hulsey Center and Sloss Furnaces in our slideshow.

Students need to come hungry in this savory course led by instructor Jenna Reynolds, M.A. Follow Reynolds and her class on a tasty tour in this slideshow.

Stacy Moak, Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, Sarah Culver and Samiksha Raut demonstrated extraordinary commitment to engaging undergraduate students in service learning, undergraduate research, education abroad and core teaching.

Take a minute to explore memorable images from June 2025 as selected by UAB's official photographers.

Elizabeth Caine, Eddie Luster and Olga Mack are the second-quarter 2025 honorees in the UAB Shared Values in Action Program. Nominations for third-quarter honorees are open through July 9.

From blood stains to DNA testing, students in this course learn the real-life workings of a crime lab. Get a glimpse into the class with its instructor, Associate Professor Jason Linville, Ph.D., in this slideshow.

The UAB SUCCESS Initiative honors Kathleen Stallings, executive director of Undergraduate Admissions and Scholarships, for going above and beyond in shaping the student experience at UAB. Champions are selected quarterly by the initiative’s executive steering committee.

Take a minute to explore memorable images from May 2025 as selected by UAB's official photographers.

UAB Graduate School and Global Affairs will become two distinct, collaborative entities with David Schneider, Ph.D., and Catherine Crowe, J.D., serving in interim leadership roles.

This spring, the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees awarded the rank of Distinguished Professor to five and the rank of University Professor to four faculty members.

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

Two young alumni employees in UAB IT have turned a student’s idea into a department-wide development opportunity. Next-Gen IT has helped multiple IT student assistants land full-time jobs with the university and given employees a chance to hone their networking and soft skills, too.

Spend a minute with this slideshow and enjoy some twin bunnies in the neonatal intensive care unit, spring fun on the Campus Green, dramatic photos of new graduates and more captured by UAB's official photographers in April 2025.

Congratulations to the 19 faculty and staff leaders who completed UAB’s leadership development program this month. Meet the graduates and see the requirements for the 2025-2026 cohort; nominations open in June.

John F. Kearney, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Endowed Professor in Immunology in the Department of Microbiology, will be honored for five decades of service to UAB on April 8.

Mahmood Abdul Gahni, Danny Lee and Tim Walker are the first 2025 honorees in the UAB Shared Values in Action Program. Nominations for second-quarter honorees are open through April 16.

Getting a good start is critical, as is exercise, building community and more.

Three hundred employees with 20 or more years of service will be honored during a reception April 8. John F. Kearney, Ph.D., will be honored for 50 years of service to UAB.

Kathy Nugent, Ph.D., executive director of the UAB Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, will lead efforts to advance and align biotechnology research, innovation and commercialization, driving economic development and job creation in Birmingham and across Alabama. 

The UAB SUCCESS Initiative honors Eric Ford, Ph.D., professor in the School of Public Health and chair of the UAB Faculty Senate, for going above and beyond in shaping the student experience at UAB. Champions will be selected quarterly by the initiative’s executive steering committee.

Alumnus Andy Hollis, who currently serves as interim chief financial officer and associate vice president for Financial Affairs, has been named CFO effective March 1. 

Nancy Parsons, administrative support specialist in the School of Dentistry, is the recipient of the 2024 President’s Award for Shared Values. In this story, Parsons shares why she is always ready to help new hires figure out UAB, and tips on getting the most out of working here.

Fran Lund, Ph.D., an internationally recognized scientist who has uncovered crucial additional roles for the immune system’s antibody-generating B cells, has been selected for the academic medical center’s highest faculty honor. Learn more about her career and current work in immune memory in this article.