UAB Briefs: Stories of UAB at 50, research grant, family favorites
In this weekly online feature, we keep track of interesting people and events on campus.
UAB is 50 years old in 2019, and people can now record and archive their memories of the school.
A biology professor has won a major research fellowship.
And the UAB Women and Infants Center won plaudits in a poll conducted by an area magazine.
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SHARE THOSE STORIES
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
And anyone connected to UAB — students, staff, alumni, patients and community members — can share their stories and memories of the institution as part of an oral history project.
UAB is looking for stories celebrating education, patient care and community impact, according to UAB Media Relations.
“These memories are part of UAB’s history,” UAB President Ray L. Watts said.
People can upload their stories to the UAB 50th anniversary website.
Memories can also be shared in the recording booth, which is located at Mervyn H. Sterne Library through August. Appointments can be scheduled on the website.
The recording booth will be at Alumni House beginning September 3 and in Lister Hill Library in November and December.
Stories shared as part of the project will be stored, published and promoted as part of UAB’s anniversary and stored by UAB Archives.
A podcast will launch in the fall and be available on iTunes and Spotify.
STUDYING THE OCEANS
Jeffrey Morris, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology, has been awarded a three-year, $540,000 early career fellowship by the Simons Foundation to support his research in marine microbial ecology, according to UAB Media Relations.
Through his grant, Morris hopes to improve the accuracy of predictions regarding the ocean’s future.
He will seek to understand how rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere will affect ocean microbes, as well as the evolution of bacteria in real time and the changes expected to happen in the ocean between now and 2100.
The research looks at how organisms that are symbiotic partners today might become antagonists in the future, which could affect how much food there is in the ocean for fish and other sea creatures.
For more on his project, check out a description at the Simons Foundation website.
FAMILY FAVORITE
The UAB Women and Infants Center was recently named a “family favorite” in three categories in Birmingham Parent Magazine’s annual Family Favorites Awards survey, including favorite all-around hospital, favorite NICU and favorite fertility specialist. The survey allied more than 60,000 reader nominations and votes to make the 2019 winners list.