He also initiated a junior college system that has now spread throughout the state, preparing many students to complete four-year degrees at Auburn University, UAB, or the University of Alabama.

Some of the record crowds that the arena has hosted include 14, 277 fans for a 1971 battle against former OVC arch-rival Murray State ; 13, 000 for the 1984 Wendy's Classic Final versus Louisiana Tech and All-American Karl Malone ; and 13, 300 for a 1986 showdown with former Sun Belt Conference rival UAB.

Gold has also performed announcing duties for the Birmingham Barons AA baseball team and the UAB Blazers men's basketball team.

UAB is the state's largest employer, with more than 18, 000 faculty and staff and over 53, 000 jobs at the university and in the health system.

Yet one more time we find the Brașov team in Division C-series XII, as " UAB ".

By 2005, the Civitan International Foundation had provided $ 13, 000, 000 in grants to the UAB Civitan International Research Center, the first institution in the United States to focus solely on researching developmental disabilities.

UAB is not only the state's largest single employer with some 20, 000 employees on its payroll, but also one of the largest medical districts in the Southeast.

The chosen were mostly articulate young adults in high school around the Birmingham area and a few unique and talented UAB students.

Most UAB academic activity is done on the Cerdanyola campus.

UAB offers over 140 programs of study in 12 academic divisions leading to bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degrees in the social and behavioral sciences, the liberal arts, business, education, engineering, and health-related fields such as medicine, dentistry, optometry, nursing, and public health.

The UAB Health System, one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States, is affiliated with the university.

Basil Isaac Hirschowitz (* 29 May 1925, Bethal, South Africa ) is an academic gastroenterologist from the University of Alabama at Birmingham ( UAB ) best known in the field for having invented an improved optical Fiber which allowed the creation of a useful flexible endoscope.

Strong academic and admission trend of Auburn High School continues, as graduates of the class of 2011 attend the University of Chicago, Cornell, Emory, North Carolina, Oberlin, Tulane, UC Berkeley, USC, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Wake Forest, and Yale, with vast majority of student body who attends Auburn University, Southern Union, Alabama, and UAB.

The UAB is a pioneering institution in terms of fostering research.

* Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, a plant biotechnology and research centre located in the campus of UAB university, in the province of Barcelona, Spain.

During this decade, the Col · legi Universitari de Girona and the Escola Politècnica Superior are created, which depend on the already founded universities UAB and UPC, respectively.

The Autonomous University of Barcelona also known as UAB (;, ) is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.

The UAB is considered to be the best University in Spain by the 2012 QS World University Rankings, which ranked the university 176th overall in the world.

The UAB campus is about 20 km away from the centre of Barcelona.

* GenteUAB. com-Users community of people studying in UAB and living in the vila universitaria

Over the next ten years the conference would add WKU, Old Dominion, UAB, and Virginia Commonwealth.

* Watson Brown, older brother of Texas Longhorns head coach Mack Brown, former head football coach of the Rice Owls, Vanderbilt Commodores, and UAB Blazers ; current head coach of the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles.

Vegas gold is one of the official athletic colors for the Pittsburgh Panthers, the South Florida Bulls, the UAB Blazers, the Pittsburgh Penguins ( formerly yellow ), and the Vanderbilt Commodores.

While it is not uncommon to append " Tuscaloosa " to the name of UA in order to distinguish the university from sister UA System institutions UAB and UAHuntsville, this name – and accompanying abbreviation, UAT – is unofficial.

For example, UAB School of Medicine does so.

In 1965, after his studies, he joined the Specialist Office of Barcelona City Council as an economist, work he combined with giving classes in economic theory at the UAB, acting as assistant to the professor, Josep M. Bricall.

In 1973, he came back to Barcelona and returned to the Barcelona City Council and to the UAB, where he gave classes on urban economics and international economics as temporary assistant lecturer.

In 1978, at the Economics Faculty of the UAB, he presented his doctoral thesis The prices of urban land.

The system operates on state appropriations, student tuition and fees, public and private grants and contracts, and revenue from the UAB Health System.

An extension center created in Birmingham in 1936 along with the University of Alabama School of Medicine eventually grew into UAB, while UAH began as an extension center established in Huntsville in 1950.

He sang with Just a Few Cats, a popular local Birmingham jazz and R & B band founded by members of Ray Reach's UAB Jazz Ensemble, along with other local musicians.

In 2004, the St. Louis Regional saw Georgia Tech defeat Kansas in a final that required overtime, Tech have previously defeated Nevada while KU became the first team ( and the only one to date ) to score 100 points in a college basketball game in the building in its regional semifinal win over UAB.

The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

In a mere half-century the South has more than tripled its urban status.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.

The Charles Men has a tremendous range of characters, of common folk even more than of major figures.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

The observer of television or other products for a mass audience has only a permit to be, like the models he sees, even more like everybody else.

The publication of Father Connolly's The Man Has Wings has made more of the group available in print so that a general picture of what it contained can now be had without difficulty.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

Everyone is more or less sceptical and virtually no one has been willing to accept Lappenberg or Kemble's position on that point.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

and we must attend to it more closely than has usually been done.

For the sad truth is that while one might write well without having read Bartleby The Scrivener, one is more likely, to write well if one has `` read it, and much else.

Actually it would be more accurate to say that the leader of the alliance now has swung fully behind the British policy of seeking to achieve a neutral Laos via the international bargaining table.

In 18 months, no more grisly incident has been reported from that jungle.

But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.