They’re sought-after scientists, researchers, artists, and modern pioneers who write books, invent innovations, and take the future in new directions. Plus an impressive 90 percent hold an academic or professional doctorate. But UAB’s 1,846 full-time faculty members are your teachers first and foremost. So you’ll get unique insights and the freshest, most in-depth knowledge straight from the source. Especially with an undergraduate student-faculty ratio of just 18 to 1.
Faculty in the News
- Engineering professor Bharat Soni, Ph.D., one of America's top computing experts, is creating a high-performance virtual reality lab on campus.
- The philosophy department’s Greg Pence, Ph.D., has published two provocative books. One examines genetically modified foods. The other investigates the ethics of human cloning, a subject on which he has testified before Congress.
- The School of Education’s Lois McFayden Christensen, Ed.D., and Betty Nelson Higdon, Ph.D., develop new ways to help teachers and schools—from kindergarten through college—integrate new technology and the Internet into their curriculum.
- Communication studies professor June Mack creates documentaries that win awards at international film festivals. She recently completed a TV biography of country music star Hank Williams Sr.
- Music chair Jeff Reynolds is making plans for the next International Cathedral Music Festival. As the festival's music director, he conducts singers and instrumentalists performing in Europe's great churches.
- English professor Virginia Whatley Smith joined international education leaders for the Oxford Round Table at Britain's Oxford University. Their discussions of academic issues have been published and distributed to policymakers and libraries worldwide.
- Biologist James McClintock has made 11 expeditions to Antarctica, where he dives beneath to sea ice to study organisms that could help humans fight disease. Antarctica’s McClintock Point is named for him.
- Rick Turpen, Ph.D., an associate professor in accounting, served as a consultant in Ethiopia and Russia as they reformed their economic systems.
- Political science professor Nikolaos Zahariadis, Ph.D., has been a consultant to the United Nations Development Program, the Greek Ministry of Culture, and the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Artist-in-residence Yakov Kasman won the silver medal at an international piano competition and has performed with orchestras worldwide.
- Bradley Newcomer, Ph.D., an assistant professor of radiologic sciences, works with miniature probes to provide more accurate medical images without surgery.