The upcoming 100th anniversary of the annexation of Hawaii will likely be celebrated with a tidal wave of Hawaiian nationalism, says historian Tennant McWilliams, Ph.D., dean of the UAB School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
African-Americans and whites lose mobility -- and therefore independence -- in different ways as they age.
1. Internet Art Caveat Emptor 2. Avoid Small Business Pitfalls
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr. and Birmingham business leader H. Corbin Day, chairman of Jemison Investment Co., will be honored during graduation ceremonies at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 6, at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham).
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received one of 35 Clinical Research Curriculum Awards from the National Institutes of Health.
Kirk Thomas of Pelham was prepared for life-with-paralysis by UAB's Spain Rehabilitation Center -- now he heads an organization that opens the great outdoors to others with disabilities.
LEARNING: 1. Why Good Kids Have Bad Study Habits 2. Key to Early School Success 3. Fun and Easy Teaching Tips for Parents 4. Why Some Kids Hate School 5. DonÃt Raise a Bully 6. Teaching Children Self-Esteem HEALTH AND SAFETY: 7. Breakfast Is Brain Food 8. Vision Care Important for Learning 9. Finding the Right School Shoes
1. Age and Mobility in Blacks and Whites, 2. Early Eye-Brain Connection Essential, 3. Traveling and Influenza, 4. Advance in Crohn's Treatment, 5. Insuring Your Health Abroad, 6. Safe Solid Food for Bone Marrow Transplant Patients, 7. Training Clinical Researchers
1. Watch What You Say in Chat Rooms 2. Music Made Easy
1. Steps Toward Web Regulation 2. U.S. and German Unions United Over Big Three Contracts 3. Addressing the Dress Code Without Getting Sued
1. Feed a Bookworm, Watch it Grow 2. New Program Helps At-Risk Kids Get Ahead 3. Are Parents Up To Home Schooling?
1. Drivers Exams Need a Checkup 2. New Use for an Old Drug
1. Cultivating Sea Urchins as a Cash Crop 2. UAB Unveils Space Station Hardware
An alternative way of screening urine specimens for urinary tract infections (UTIs) could greatly reduce the number of lab cultures performed each year and reduce antibiotic usage, according to a study by Andrew Lorincz, M.D., professor emeritus with the department of pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Details of the study are published in the July issue of the Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science.
1. Hey Kids, Let's Put on a Show! 2. Boot Camp for Budding Teachers
1. Parasites That Cause Blindness 2. Ear Rocks, Stomach Rolls 3. Prevent Baby Bottle Syndrome 4. Poisoned Produce? 5. Munchausen's by Proxy
1. Protecting Yourself at Work 2. Don't Raise a Bully 3. Engineering Ethics
1. Caring for Summer Wounds 2. Alternative UTI Screening Process 3. UAB Program Goes National 4. Build Up to Fitness 5. Eye That Chlorine Level 6. Anti-Fungal Advance
1. Why answer "why?" 2. Help for kids who hate school, 3. It's a tv, not a baby sitter.
1. Cool off with a little culture, 2. Gross is "in," 3. MP3 a hit with internet bootleggers.
America is in danger of losing its competitive edge, says the dean of the UAB School of Engineering.
1. Painless sores can signal cancer, 2. Displaying symptoms of CVS, 3. New drug a deadly high, 4. Physician teach thy self.
The biggest factor in ground level ozone the one that canÃt be controlled, the one that can make ozone even from the hydrocarbons naturally released from trees, the factor most responsible for reducing ozone emissions, is the weather said a professor at the UAB School of Engineering.
1. Refresh by Reframing 2. Write a Book, Make Millions, Retire
As use of the Internet grows, so will its uses for making money, advertising, and distribution of extreme materials.
Selecting the right early learning environment is an important step in preparing a child for elementary school, say UAB developmental psychologists and authors of a new book, "Going to School -- How to Help Your Child Succeed."
1. Respiratory-Spinal Connection 2. Rediagnosing Crimes Against Children
You may think you work for an ethical company, but your perceptions may be based solely on how well they treat you.
1. UAB Site of Leukemia Study, 2. Belly Up to Breakfast, 3. Ozone: How Bad is Bad?
1- Music may not increase intelligence, but it can be an aid to concentration, 2- ancient Philistines may have eaten dogs.
UAB political scientist Nikolaos Zahariadis says the recent tragedy in Turkey could strengthen the Islamist leaders in that country.
1. Research on black men and AIDS; 2. Osteoarthritis and the knee; 3. New prostate cancer drug; 4. Surviving football
Diamonds' strength under pressure makes them ideal for building superconducting metals and protecting astronauts from the rigors of space.
The first thing survivors of Hurricane Floyd will need is "three squares and a place to sleep," says UAB psychiatrist Doug Sargent, M.D.
Not only is there a shortage of nurses, there is also a nationwide shortage of academic faculty to teach nursing students. "Faculty shortages are an issue in general for higher education," says a UAB expert in nursing education.
1. Anthropology Meets Marketing 2. Information Download
Many people don't consider themselves creative, but that's a misconception, says a UAB art historian.
Got osteoporosis? Then drink milk. At least that's the message from the dairy industry and the USDA.
1. brush smarter, not harder, 2. cranberry medicine
UAB child psychologist Vivian Friedman, Ph.D., suggests that when it comes to children, parents avoid an emphasis on scary stories.
Graduates with a combination of computer savvy and pre-technology skills in such fields as quantitative analysis, accounting and communications will have an edge in an increasingly competitive market, said Lance Nail, Ph.D., finance professor in the UAB School of Business.
A state-run lottery isn't likely to create gambling addicts, says a UAB addiction counselor, but it should bring more people into treatment for compulsive gambling disorders.
Alan Atkinson, Ph.D., of UAB Department of Art and Art History is nationally know for his pumpkin carving ability and has suggestions on how to make the most of your pumpkin this season.
A University of Alabama at Birmingham economist has created an Internet tool that provides quick economic forecasting from wide-ranging data to students and clients around the world. Economagic L.L.C. is a new web-based business.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center and the Alabama Humanities Foundation present a Silver Anniversary Gala featuring Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison at 8 p.m. Oct. 30 at the center. The gala celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center presents an evening with legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman Oct. 28 in the Jemison Concert Hall. Tickets are $500 per person for a cocktail reception, gourmet dinner, performance and dessert with Perlman.
As transplant waiting lists grow even longer and the supply of cadaver donors remains fairly stable, major centers are increasingly turning to the patients' family and friends for help.
Experts say teen drinking is a pervasive problem in the United States. Health professionals, counselors and others who deal with the issue -- because of time constraints and the proliferation of profession-specific journals -- are often unaware of relevant research on teen drinking in other fields.
Despite its reputation for single-minded hatred of blacks, the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama actually focused its hate on many targets, ranging from blacks to Catholics to women alleged to have loose morals, according to a new book by Glenn Feldman, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR).
Alabama history, even during years of segregation, can't always be viewed in black and white, concludes a new book of essays, "It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW."
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