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  • 2009 has been UAB’s best fundraising year to dateFiscal year 2009 may have started with a severe economic downturn for the nation, but because of UAB’s generous donors, it ended on a high note for the university. Posted by Traci Bratton on 11/6/2009 8:40:00 AM
  • Clinical trials test therapies for elusive pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer is certainly one of the truly rare cancers — a person has only about a one in 76 chance of developing it in his or her lifetime. But while its incidence is relatively uncommon — ranking around ninth among cancers — pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of the disease. Posted by Traci Bratton on 10/15/2009 10:35:00 AM
  • Facilities to extend recycling program to aluminum, plasticsUAB spent more than $500,000 on solid waste disposal in 2008-09 — not including the waste generated by the UAB Health Systems properties — and the staff in Facilities estimated that 60 percent of the materials in campus dumpsters were recyclable. So UAB opened the new Recycling Center located at 620 11th Street South in March. Posted by Traci Bratton on 10/15/2009 10:00:00 AM
  • New book promises solution for teaching evolution UAB Associate Professor Lee Meadows, Ph.D., is author of a new book that claims it's possible to teach evolution without offending students who have strong religious convictions against the theory. Posted by Traci Bratton on 10/14/2009 10:10:00 AM
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