Angela Lee and Davis Gustafson are the newly elected Undergraduate Student Government Association president and executive vice president, respectively, for 2021–2022. Both said they want to improve USGA and the split ticket should not pose a barrier to improving students’ experiences. Lee, a junior majoring in chemistry, said she ran for president because being a part of USGA for two years made her realize that there is an opportunity to grow the organization every year. “There’s always a continuous process of seeing what one administration does and knowing that you can better it,” Lee said. Lee said that although she is unsure what the transition from EVP to president will look like, it…
Author: Sindhu Dwarampudi
Dr. Henna Budhwani is an Assistant Professor in the UAB School of Public Health. Budhwani conducts studies to address the causes and consequences of health disparities among stigmatized populations that experience adverse health outcomes in resourceconstrained settings
This piece first appeared in our March 2021 Magazine Dr. Brynn Welch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at UAB. She specializes in social and political philosophy, with her primary focus being the intersection of family and public policies. Welch said because there was a lottery system for registration, she took an introductory philosophy class, which was her very last choice. However, she said she was “absolutely hooked” on the first reading, “The Laches.” She then took Philosophy of Religion and said she was fascinated by the structure of the arguments. “The deal with my family had always…
This piece first appeared in our March 2021 Magazine Dr. Farah Lubin is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and an Associate Professor of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology in the School of Medicine. Lubin said becoming a physician was her initial goal, and she did everything she could to prepare for that path, including internships at New York City hospitals and nursing homes. This also happened to be at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. “A lot of patients were dying around me and we really didn’t have a true handle on HIV and AIDS at that time,” she said.…
This piece first appeared in our March 2021 Magazine Kerry Madden-Lunsford is an Associate Professor in the English Department and director of the creative writing program at UAB. Madden-Lunsford said she credits growing up as the daughter of a football coach and frequently moving for her development as a writer. “I had to reinvent myself in each new place. My father would say ‘You won’t remember these people. So you want to stay in the same town your whole life, what kind of life is that?’” she said. Madden-Lunsford said out of defiance she would vow to remember people she…
Over the last several months, UAB researchers have worked tirelessly in their efforts to get closer to vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19. Frances Lund, Ph.D. and Professor in the Department of Microbiology, has been collaborating with AltaImmune, Inc. on a COVID intranasal vaccine candidate. Lund has worked on local immune responses in the respiratory tract for a long time with thorough knowledge of response properties and methods to measure them. “When we got the vaccine, we tested it in animals and tested the mucosal response to demonstrate that the animals got mucosal protection. We used that data to have FDA…