UAB Briefs: World music concert, thesis competition, an honor for a doctor
In this weekly online feature, we keep track of interesting people and events on campus.
An acclaimed world music group will play at the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center next week.
The Graduate School will host the finals of its Three Minute Thesis competition.
And a UAB physician has been named president of a national medical society.
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Roving virtuosos
Founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Silkroad Ensemble will perform at the Alys Stephens Center on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m., according to UAB Media Relations.
Silkroad Ensemble has been called “vibrant and virtuosic” by the Wall Street Journal, “one of the 21st century’s great ensembles” by the Vancouver Sun, and a “roving musical laboratory without walls” by the Boston Globe.
Silkroad musicians and composers come from more than 20 countries and drawing on a wide variety of cultural traditions to create new music.
The group has performed in more than 30 nations, recorded seven records and won a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.
This concert is made possible by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Tickets are $28. For tickets and information, including discounts for students, faculty, staff and UAB Visual and Performing Arts members,call 205-975-2787 or go to alysstephens.org.
Learning to pitch
The UAB Graduate School will host the finals for the Three Minute Thesis competition in the Alumni Theater at the Hill Student Center on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 10 a.m., according to UAB Media Relations.
3MT is a competition that highlights — in a three-minute presentation — research conducted by doctoral students.
Attendees will hear the final nine competitors present their research in an attempt to win first prize and advance to the Regional 3MT competition.
Judges include media personalities, community leaders and business leaders.
Developed by the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, 3MT helps students learn to explain their research in three minutes in a way that a non-specialist audience can understand.
For details on the competition, click here.
Mr. President
Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, Dr. Anupam Agarwal will serve a one-year term as president of the American Society of Nephrology, an organization with more than 20,000 members in 131 countries.
Agarwal is the director of the Division of Nephrology, executive vice dean of the School of Medicine and program director of the O’Brien Center for Acute Kidney Injury Research, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
His research — funded by the NIH and the Department of Veterans Affairs — focuses on acute kidney injury and the progression of kidney disease.
“There has never been a more important and exciting time for nephrology,” Agarwal said in a UAB news release. “We are seeing changes we’ve never seen before, including increased awareness by our government of the importance of kidney health.”
Agarwal’s bibliography includes 40 invited reviews or book chapters and 155 peer-reviewed papers
He has also won numerous awards and is a member of numerous professional organizations.