October 1961: The Psychiatric Clinic was named in honor of Medical Center benefactors Joseph S. and Bertha Pizitz Smolian. May 28, 1955: Jefferson-Hillman Hospital was renamed University Hospital and Hillman Clinic. Get Jeff Daniel's email address (j*****@uab.edu) and phone number (205939..) at RocketReach. September 6, 1993: In a game against Troy State University, the UAB football team played its first game as a Division I-AA scholarship team. 1945: The Cullom Apartments located at the corner of South 20th Street and 8th Avenue South were acquired for use as student dormitories and as faculty housing. September 1, 1999: A reorganization of the School of Business became effective, reducing the academic departments from five to three. March 15, 1980: Dr. Milly E. Cowles became second dean of the School of Education. May 19, 2000: The Eppes-Durr Memorial Garden was dedicated at the WBHM-FM Radio Building. January 6, 2014: The Blazer Express Transit System, UAB's new campus-wide bus and shuttle system, launched with six routes available at no cost to UAB students, staff, and authorized campus visitors. The school was officially renamed as the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He received a Bachelor of Science degree at graduation ceremonies held on the university campus in Tuscaloosa. April 2018: A renovation project began on the BBVA Compass Field to expand the facility to 4,000 seats and to add a new video board and permanent ticket booths, concession stands, and restrooms. Dr. Vickers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, and a former member of the UAB surgery faculty, was chair of surgery at the University of Minnesota when his appointment was announced in August. Nambayan was from the Philippines. She was the first female president of the governing board of the three campus University of Alabama System. June 1983: The UAB Critical Care Transport Service began. 1957: For the fall term, total enrollment at the Birmingham Extension Center was 1,856 students. October 24, 1964: Drs. Dr. Kurt M. W. Niemann was the first director. September 1953: Succeeding Interim President Lee Bidgood, Dr. Oliver C. Carmichael became president of The University of Alabama and served until 1957. April 27, 1966: Dr. Joseph F. Volker delivered the third Distinguished Faculty Lecture, "The Way of an Administrator.". Total enrollment was down approximately 2.4 percent, but freshmen enrollment increased 12 percent. Later that day, the UAB Green and Gold game was held at the universitys BBVA Compass Field. The class graduated in 1969 and the school was eliminated. UABs gift was one of at least a dozen such bequests received by academic institutions across the country. Buildings are divided into areas of responsibility for routine/general work called Blocks. December 3, 1988: In their first home game in the new UAB Arena, the Men's Basketball team defeated Vanderbilt 76-69. Beatrice H. Hahn, George M. Shaw, and Feng Gao announced the discovery of the origin of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1), the virus that causes AIDS in humans. January 29, 1998: The New Woman All Women Clinic, a private facility located adjacent to the UAB campus at 1001 South 17th Street, was bombed. 1969: UABs first yearbook, the Annual Report, was published with Kay Haslam serving as editor. A record 67 percent of incoming freshmen lived in on-campus housing. This research center was located within the School of Medicine. 1996: Dr. Stephen A. Szygenda became fourth dean of the School of Engineering. August 1, 1944: Dr. Roy R. Kracke became first dean of the four-year Medical College of Alabama. 1920: Medical College of Alabama was transferred from Mobile to The University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa where it was housed in a barracks building and reopened as a two-year basic sciences medical program. February 19, 1975: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved plans for UAB to establish a non-commercial, educational FM radio station for the campus. June 4, 1975: A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Roberts Annex, an addition to the Clark Memorial Theatre building. December 7-9, 1973: The Diabetes Hospital was formally dedicated at UAB in two-day festivities at the medical center. Hospital Medicine Faculty. 15 nationally among public universities, No. Champ Lyons to the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. Her visit to UAB included a public lecture on Greek tragedy and Aristotles Poetics. July 1, 2007: Barnes & Noble took over management of the UAB Bookstore located in the Hill University Center. February 1957: University Hospital's Beacon was first published. December 2011: John Fields, adjunct instructor in the Department of Art and Art History and a UAB alumnus, became interim director of the UAB Visual Arts Gallery. 1955: At the end of the academic year of 1954-1955 the first year the Birmingham Extension Center occupied its new home adjacent to the Medical Center 2,377 students had enrolled during the year. Further, $1 in every $25 in the state's budget is generated by UAB, and every $1 invested by the state in UAB generates $16.23 in the total state economy. May 2011: Dr. Melinda M. Lalor was named as interim dean of the School of Engineering. Each Congressional district went from one member to two members; the district containing Tuscaloosa went from two members to three. Clyde G. Cox was the center's first director. October 23, 1981: Dr. James A. Pittman, Jr., delivered the eighteenth Distinguished Faculty Lecture, "Progress.". October 2, 1894: The Birmingham Medical College opened for its first term with Dr. William H. Johnston as dean. September 19, 2017: An official groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new classroom building for the College of Arts and Sciences that will be located on the southwest corner of the Campus Green. UAB students who had graduated during virtual-only ceremonies in 2020 were invited to participate. Director, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for International Nursing SCHOLARS@UAB PROFILE. Krontiras named director of UAB surgical oncology. October 24, 1975: The Reynolds Historical Library was rededicated within the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences. July 1, 1986: Dr. Richard R. Ranney became the fourth dean of the School of Dentistry. September 1, 2008: Dr. William Ferniany became the fourth CEO of the UAB Health System, an appointment which had been announced in August. 1978: UAB Pain Treatment Center was formally established as an official center although the program had originated in the late 1960s. June 27, 1950: Dr. Roy R. Kracke, medical dean, died. Several UAB facilities, including the newly opened Sorority Square Building, received damage in the bombing, and the portion of the university campus surrounding the building was closed for days. October 1973: The Division of Special Studies was established to coordinate non-credit courses, workshops, seminars, and conferences. 1963: Extramural grants and contracts at the Medical Center totaled $3,888,514. December 1, 1944: Dr. Roger Denio Baker became the medical school's first full-time faculty member and the first departmental chair (pathology) appointed by Dean Roy R. Kracke. Parking. July 12, 1957: University Hospital School of Nursing received full accreditation from the National Nursing Accreditation Service. June 8, 1942: As part of the national defense effort during World War II, the medical school in Tuscaloosa instituted an accelerated training program of year-round school containing four sessions of study within a three-year curriculum. November 2009: Dr. Jean Ann Linney, dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences, was named as interim dean of UAB's new College of Arts and Sciences. December 1954: The former Birmingham Little Theater building on South 26th Street was donated to The University of Alabama by the family of General Louis V. Clark. June 14, 2017: UAB unveiled a partially completed two bedroom, two bathroom solar house, complete with a tornado safe room, designed and being built by students as part of the U.S. Dept. October 16, 1998: Dr. Richard J. Whitley presented the thirty-fifth Distinguished Faculty Lecture, "Herpes Simplex Virus Infections of the Central Nervous System: 25 Years Out, One Year In.". In addition, room for future growth is designed into the area. INTO UAB seeks to increase the global diversity of the UAB student body and increase the international opportunities for domestic students. Thank you for visiting our pageIm glad that you are here and excited to share more about who we are and what we do at UAB. His appointment had been announced in May. "Jack" Secrist, III, became chief executive officer of the UAB affiliated Southern Research Institute. Department of Neurology. Dr. Ronald H. Clements was named director of the center. September 1, 1997: The UAB Genesis Center was renamed the OADI Technology Center. May 18, 1969: The Occupational Rehabilitation Center was dedicated at 1616 6th Avenue South. June 30, 1970: Dr. Florence A. Hixson retired as first dean of the School of Nursing. For the first term, 116 students enrolled. Copyright: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees. The national search was chaired by Tony Caminiti, director of Facilities Operations, and an 6-member search committee representing university and EH&S staff, in partnership with executive search firm LeadExec. 1908: A laboratory for comparative anatomy, a one-story wooden structure, was constructed on the property of the Medical College of Alabama, just north of the main medical building. In 1969 UAB became an independent institution, one of the autonomous universities within the newly created three-campus University of Alabama System. September 1965: Sarah Louise Fisher became the first African American student in The University of Alabama School of Nursing, then located on the campus in Tuscaloosa. She had been a student athlete on the Blazer team. December 3, 1993: John Russell Thomas was elected to the University of Alabama Board of Trustees. June 29, 2020: Governor Kay Ivey announced programs to provide COVID-19 testing and symptom monitoring for the state's public higher education institutions. Tuesday, February 28 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm. September 1, 1977: Dr. Charles A. McCallum, Jr., became vice president for Health Affairs. Mrs. K. Lemone Yeilding elected as the club's first president. 1 hospital in Alabama. 1997: UAB administrators established the University-Wide Interdisciplinary Research Center (UWIRC) Program to provide UAB funding for those research centers and institutes designated as a UWIRC entity. March 12, 2020: Due to the effects of the growing global pandemic of coronavirus (COVID-19), the University of Alabama System announced that classes on all three system campuses, UA, UAH, and UAB, would transition completely to an online or alternative instruction model for the remainder of March. Dr. Michael J. Friedlander was named first director of the new center. UAB Medicine is unique in that our organizational structure includes a dedicated leader to advocate for APPs, help grow service lines and individual practices, provide oversight and supervision of scope of practice, and support recruitment, quality, credentialing, and privileging. October 1957: Birmingham native Patricia "Pat" Neal (later renamed as Fannie Flagg) volunteered her services as the spotlight operator for the Town and Gown production of "Pal Joey." UAB - The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2023 The University of Alabama at Birmingham. There were two female members of the part-time faculty: Drs. March 7-8, 1973: The Diabetes Research and Education Building was dedicated in the Medical Center as the nation's first public, university-affiliated diabetes hospital. March 11, 1971: The Center for Developmental and Learning Disorders was named in honor of former Alabama governor Chauncey Sparks. June 5, 1971: Dr. Bengt E. Gustafson, a noted scientist from Sweden, received the honorary Doctor of Science degree, the second honorary degree awarded by UAB. Spies, a noted researcher from the University of Cincinnati (later from Northwestern University), would maintain the independent clinic within the hospital until his death in 1960. To provide high quality, culturally competent, and collaborative inpatient care centered around exceptional service, patient centered communication, and innovation that improves health outcomes for our community. Rose became the 20th president of The University of Alabama. February 4, 1989: UAB celebrated homecoming with the university's first homecoming parade. September 1, 1984: Lung Health Center was established at UAB with Dr. William C. Bailey as director. UAB Hospital Medicine will lead in operational efficiency, high quality care and process innovation, while providing a premiere work environment that prioritizes inclusivity, wellness and professional development. January 15, 2016: Dr. Paulette Patterson Dilworth became vice president for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the first African American female named as a vice president at UAB. May 20, 2011: Dr. Michael S. Reddy was named as interim dean of the School of Dentistry, to be effective on June 6, 2011. January 1, 2022: Dr. Selwyn M. Vickers became the fifth CEO of the UAB Health System, he retained his positions as dean of the Heersink School of Medicine and as Senior Vice President for Medicine. April 16-17, 1970: Officials with the US Dept of Health, Education and Welfare toured UAB to review the universitys compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. UAB received over $281 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, and was the recipient of 85 percent of the NIH-funding granted to the State of Alabama. Today, UAB is a comprehensive urban university with a nationally recognized academic health center. September 1995: Caron Van Gilder became first director of the Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center. December 12, 1996: Center for Obstetric Research was renamed the Center for Research in Women's Health by The University of Alabama Board of Trustees. October 13, 1893: With the start of the new school term, the Medical College of Alabama lengthened requirements for graduation from a two-year to three-year course. Search by condition, specialty or doctor name. Switchboard: (205) 934-4011. March 15, 1989: Linda Flaherty-Goldsmith became University Treasurer. 2015: UAB Rangeela formed as Alabamas first competitive Bollywood fusion-style dance team. 10 worldwide in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2018 Young University Rankings. January 2003: The School of Medicines Faculty Office Tower was completed above Parking Deck No. Ohl-Picket had been a student athlete on the Blazer team. September 3, 2020: UAB Blazers defeated the Central Arkansas Bears 45-35 before a crowd of 12,000 at Legion Field. 1865: The building of the Medical College of Alabama was occupied by the Federal Government; it later became the headquarters of the local Freedmen's Bureau. Drs. 1936: Dr. Tom D. Spies established the Spies Nutrition Clinic within the Hillman Hospital upon the request of Dr. James S. McLester, physician-in-chief of the hospital. September 15, 2017: Ronald W. Gray was elected president pro tempore of The University of Alabama Board of Trustees.