What’s happening right now at UAB? Just about everything. UAB students and faculty constantly make headlines for their ideas and activities. Here's just a sample of some current events:
- Princeton Review Guide names UAB among "The Best 368 Colleges" and #4 in nation for diverse student population.
- The Princeton Review named UAB one of the top colleges in 10 states in a recent edition of The Best Southeastern Colleges.
- Two UAB students in two years were named Truman Scholars—an honors awarded to fewer than 80 students annually. In five years, UAB students have won Rhodes, Fulbright, Marshall, and Phi Kappa Phi scholarships, and three were named to USA Today’s All-USA College Academic First Team, a ranking of the country’s top 20 students.
- British television filmed performances by the UAB Gospel Choir for a special set to air worldwide. Songs from the choir's second CD currently play on radio stations across the country.
- A team of UAB physicists and UCLA researchers sparked worldwide debate with its discovery of the earliest known life on earth—fossilized microbes that are 3.5 billion years old.
- Discover magazine has listed professor Beatrice Hahn among the 50 most important women in science.
- U.S. News & World Report has ranked UAB's undergraduate business programs among the nation's best for two straight years.
- UAB is working with other renowned universities to create regional centers to help states prepare for biodefense and bioterrorism.
- UAB's Concert Choir won two prestigious awards at an international competition held in France. Only 17 choirs from 12 countries were invited to participate.
- UAB ranks 20th in the nation in federal health research funding. And more than 80 renowned research centers on campus are finding new ways to fight disease, revitalize inner cities, protect the environment, and much more.
- UAB students won top prizes in a national digital film festival with short documentaries they created for an anthropology class.
- UAB has joined the prestigious Carnegie-Department of Energy Alliance Center, which includes Princeton and only three other universities. Membership gives UAB students and faculty access to some of Argonne National Laboratory's most advanced research facilities.
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