On October 28, 2025, Mamie Coats, Biomedical and Health Sciences co-director, received the UAB Faculty Senate award for Outstanding New Senator.

Second-year Physician Associate Studies student, Eleanor Williams, was selected as one of 18 physician associate students in the U.S to represent their program on Capitol Hill.

Sarah Tucker, PhD, OTR/L, was honored with the 2025 Odessa Woolfolk Community Service Award at a ceremony on October 22 at the UAB Alumni House.

Krystle Glasgow, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Sciences faculty member, was awarded the UAB Young Alumni Rising Star Award.

School spirit was rampant in the Department of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences as faculty, staff and students gathered throughout the week to celebrate Homecoming Week before UAB’s big win against Memphis!

In honor of Biomedical and Health Sciences week, faculty, staff, and students volunteered their time at the Community Food Bank of Central Alabama.

The UAB National Alumni Society has awarded the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award to Shannon Houser, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, a graduate of the Department of Health Services Administration and a current faculty member.

UAB OT students and faculty met with lawmakers during AOTA Hill Day 2025. UAB brought one of the larger delegations—16 entry-level OTD students and three faculty. 

Join UAB Biotechnology on Oct. 23 at 1:30 for a special film screening of the documentary Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution, in the Hill Student Center’s Alumni Theater.

UAB Biomedical Sciences opens a new website students Rebecca Vales and Chloe Roth were selected to co-present at the Breaking the Boundaries: Reimagining Research and Clinical Practice for a Healthier Tomorrow in New Orleans, LA.

Our PhD in Nutrition Sciences alumni spotlight is on Christian Behrens, Jr., PhD, RD, class of 2020. He shares with our students about careers outside of academia.

Low vision specialists from across South Africa gathered in Johannesburg in August for the Low Vision Matters More conference. The event, aimed at advancing the nation’s low vision care, was the second co-sponsored by the UAB School of Health Professions and the Low Vision Centre of Learning.

Jennifer Morgan has been named senior director of development at the UAB School of Health Professions.

Department of Occupational Therapy students spent a day at Vulcan Park and Museum as part of the City Is Our Classroom series, which is designed to help them connect classroom concepts like social determinants of health and environmental justice to real places and lived experiences.

UAB alumnus Chuck Stokes (‘83) was a leader, mentor, and someone that many aspired to be. Today, his legacy of service lives on through a fund established to support future leaders in health administration.