Welcome to the UAB Graduate School. With over 100 master's and doctoral programs, and more than 40 certificate programs, we offer a diverse array of opportunities for advanced and customized study. We invite our students to combine research, art, and technology, and look beyond one discipline and one region during their time here at UAB. We inspire our students to become globally engaged citizens to thrive in a dynamic world.
UAB Graduate School is transitioning to a new and improved application platform on May 24. All applications will need to be submitted by May 17 to ensure your information successfully migrates to our new system. All incomplete applicants will need to start a new application in our new system. Note: as long as your application is submitted by this date, you can still send us supporting documents like transcripts or test scores.
In addition, the graduate school application will be down for the transition on May 24 at 8am until May 25 at noon. If you do not want to start an application now, you can fill out the form below to be notified when our new system launches.
The Compass Bank National Alumni Society Endowed Scholarship was established through generous gifts from the UAB National Alumni Society to be used for the purpose of creating an endowed graduate student award fund at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Spendable earnings from the Compass Bank Mortgage Financial Services Endowed Award in Graduate Education fund will be used to provide financial assistance to exceptional students who are enrolled in a UAB graduate program.
The following guidelines will be used in administering and making awards from the Compass Bank Mortgage Financial Services Endowed Award in Graduate Education.
The selection committee will select the recipient based on the student’s academic merit, letters of recommendation, essay, and interview. There are no restrictions to applicants based on sex, race, nationality, country or origin, physical disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
Applicants will be notified via letter regarding their status after the selection committee has met.
This is an annual award valued at $1,500.
Note: Given COVID-19, Ireland travel awards will be postpone until further notice.
The Ireland research travel awards are strategically targeted to provide students with unique and valuable opportunities. The research travel scholarship, which awards a maximum of $1,000, is not designed to send someone to a professional meeting; it’s designed to enable a student to capture an educational opportunity that doesn’t exist at UAB. These travel scholarships are highly competitive, and in the past have funded a wide range of researching, including a trip to the Library of Congress to study historic documents and taking a course on neuroimmunological diseases at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. These travel awards provide elite educational experiences that enrich not only our students, but UAB as a whole.
This award is funded by an endowment established at UAB by Caroline Ireland and the late Charles W. Ireland.
Interested students should contact their graduate program directors, who are responsible for making nominations. In addition to the nomination form, a letter of recommendation is also required. Students are encouraged to check this link or the Graduate Student tab of BlazerNET for the announcement of the next competition, which will be held in the spring of each year.
Morgan Zipperly, Neurobiology Dae Hyun, Health Services Administration Jessica V. Jasien, Vision Science Mandy Biles, Psychology Jacelyn Peabody, Medicine -- CFRC Melissa Bentley, Cell, Development, amd Integrative Biology Mohammah Abdelgawwad, Pathology Kwaku Osei, Vision Science Lindsay MacMillan, Biology Yumi Kim, Physical Therapy Yuliya Voskobiynyk, Neurology Carla Ammons, Psychology Stephanie Mueller, Psychology Julie Trapani, Psychology Kayla Steward, Psychology Ustun Sunay, Physics
Sarah Adkins, Biology Haley Bednarz, Psychology Elizabeth Bevan, Biology Amy Bonka, Biology Ashlyn Burch, Physics Sandra Cutts, Civil, Construction & Environmental Egr Megan Dudley, Psychology-Behavioral Neuroscience Dominique Everett, Materials Science & Engineering Timothy Curtis Howton II, Biology Prajakta Shreeram Kulkarni, Biomaterials Avantika Naidu, Physical Therapy Shyam Panthi, Vision Science Cameron Postnikoff, Vision Science Kellie Regal, Pathology Ross M Reid, Biology Dustin Revell, Cell, Molecular, Dev Biology Yue Zhang, Psychology
The Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, named for UAB’s first graduate dean, Dr. Samuel Booth Barker, was introduced in 1995. Each Spring since then, students (at the master's level and at the doctoral level) who will graduate in the Spring, Summer, or Fall of the calendar year, may be nominated for "the Barker award" by their department's graduate program director. The Dean of the Graduate School chooses the final recipients from the group of nominees, whose names appear on plaques outside the Graduate School office as continuing evidence of their accomplishments.
The nominees for the Barker Awards must be:
Student contributions to the community are also considered, but are secondary. A nomination packet consists of the nomination form, the students curriculum vitae or resume, and two letters of support explaining why the program has nominated the student.
Lacy Goode, Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience
Boyi Guo, Biostatistics
Bharat Mishra, Biology
Doris Pu, Medical/Clinical Psychology
Shameka Phillips, Nursing
Machelle Campbell, Public Administration
Mary Margaret Gunn, Nutrition Sciences
Jacob Paiste, Physics
Dalton Patterson, Multidisciplinary Biomedical Science
Benjamin Rich, Community Health and Human Services
Sabrina Heiser, Biology
Valene Garr Barry, Nutrition Sciences
Macy Stockdill, Nursing
Riley Hightower, Graduate Biomedical Science, Neuroscience
Leland Fleming, Graduate Biomedical Science, Neuroscience
Audra Gottier Weber, Business Administration
Aldric Gardiner, Management Information Systems
Blake Beaton, Criminal Justice
Angela Richardson, Nutrition Sciences
Sam Phillips, English
Rose Creed, Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience
Catherine Scull, Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Wesley LaBarge, Biomedical Engineering
Katie Cederberg, Rehabilitation Science
Sumner Harris, Physics
Jessica Robbins, English
Bethany Langer, Multidisciplinary Biomedical Science
Robert Ezekiel, Art History
Trey Gordon, Public Administration
Kory Dees, Biomedical and Health Sciences
Mark Pepin, Doctoral Level, Medical Scientist Training Program and Biomedical Engineering
Antonio Foles, Master's Level, Health Behavior
Craig Aumack, Doctoral Level, Biology
Bonnie Kathleen Culpepper, Master's Level, Biomedical Engineering
Ozioma C. Okonkwo, Doctoral Level, Medical/Clinical Psychology
Sally E. Culpepper, Master's Level, English
Francisco Hernandez, Doctoral Level, Computer and Information Sciences
Lauren Rast, Master's Level, Physics
Paula Chandler-Laney, Doctoral Level, Psychology-Behavioral Neuroscience
Rosie O'Bierne, Master's Level, Anthropology
William J. Tyler, Jr., Doctoral Level, Psychology-Behavioral Neuroscience
Barbara J. Adams, Master's Level, Health Informatics
Bryan A. Moore, Doctoral Level, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Aysha D. Bey, Master's Level, English
Scott Jenkins, Doctoral Level, Psychology-Behavioral Neuroscience
Helene Dubois, Master's Level, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hunter Moseley, Doctoral Level, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Traci Parnell, Master's Level, Art History
Peter P. Sayeski, Doctoral Level, Physiology and Biophysics
Julia A. Hagle, Master's Level, Health Information Management
The Graduate School has established an incentive plan designed to encourage more students to apply for individual fellowships. Since May of 2007 when this incentive plan was announced, more than 547 Ph.D. students have submitted new individual fellowship applications. To date, 143 fellowships have been funded. Excluding applications still pending, the success rate for these applications has been 26 percent.
Goal: Many UAB graduate students would be competitive for individual fellowships, but many who are eligible to apply for a fellowship do not apply. The Graduate School has established an incentive plan designed to encourage submission of applications from students enrolled in disciplines in which individual fellowships are available.
The Graduate School will provide a monetary incentive for students to apply for individual fellowships funded by extramural agencies or foundations. Graduate students who apply for an individual fellowship (e.g. NSF Individual, NIH NRSA, or other) will be awarded $500 from the Graduate School through the UAB Financial Aid office as a reward for submitting the application. To qualify for this award, the application must be reviewed prior to submission by the student’s program director or mentor, who must provide a written verification to the Graduate School that the application is considered to be competitive. After submission of the grant application, the student will provide a PDF of the application to the Graduate School and the incentive reward will be authorized when the student provides evidence that the application has been received by the granting agency. The $500 award is given for first submissions only.
If a student’s application is funded, the student will receive an additional financial reward:
This plan is available to students in any graduate program discipline in which extramural individual fellowship funding is available (including students in CAS and the School of Engineering, beginning July 1, 2016). To be eligible for both the reward for submitting the application and the supplement to a student’s stipend, the award must provide more than half the current base stipend in the student’s program. Applications for and receipt of travel and other small grants will not be eligible for an incentive award under this program.
To receive the application incentive of $500, the following materials are required:
