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February 25, 2026 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

February 25, 2026 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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February 24, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

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February 20, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

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February 18, 2026 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

February 18, 2026 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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February 17, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

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February 13, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

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February 11, 2026 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

February 11, 2026 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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February 10, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

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February 6, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

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February 4, 2026 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

February 4, 2026 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Role Of Depression And Anxiety On Brain Care Scores In A Primary Care Setting: A Preliminary Analysis Of The Bham Registry, Terina Lane Myers Feb 2026

Role Of Depression And Anxiety On Brain Care Scores In A Primary Care Setting: A Preliminary Analysis Of The Bham Registry, Terina Lane Myers

ETDs from 2020-2029

While the field of brain aging research continues to grow at a rapid pace, there is still much to learn about how certain factors influence brain aging as well as when and how these factors can be intervened upon. Cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases continue to pose a major obstacle to healthy brain aging and the better we understand the risk factors of these diseases, the greater chance we have at mitigation strategies and prevention. Previous research has identified key factors, consisting of physical, lifestyle, and socio-emotional aspects of life, which have the greatest impact on brain aging. These factors overlap …


Cellular Therapy For The Treatment Of Ischemic Limb Disease, Akazha Nicole Green Feb 2026

Cellular Therapy For The Treatment Of Ischemic Limb Disease, Akazha Nicole Green

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Ischemic limb disease continues to pose major clinical challenges. The effect of this disease causes restricted blood flow, which is followed by a limited ability to regenerate in the vascular tissues. The purpose of this study is to address the current limitations in producing large-scale generation of Smooth Muscle Cells (SMCs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) and then assessing their potential therapeutic efficiency individually and in combination with endothelial cells (ECs) for vascular repair. A dynamic three-dimensional (3D) culture system was integrated with a two- dimensional (2D) expansion to enhance cell culture yield while maintaining contractile marker …


February 3, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2026

February 3, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Daily Coping Strategies, Unmet Needs And Daily Health Outcomes Among Family Caregivers Of Persons Living With Alzheimer's Disease And Related Dementias, Henrietta Armah Bennett Feb 2026

Daily Coping Strategies, Unmet Needs And Daily Health Outcomes Among Family Caregivers Of Persons Living With Alzheimer's Disease And Related Dementias, Henrietta Armah Bennett

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Providing care for an individual with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) is considered the most stressful type of family caregiving that impacts caregivers’ health. More than one in five ADRD family caregivers report their overall health as poor to fair. These adverse health outcomes are often exacerbated when caregivers’ emotional, informational, and practical needs remain unmet throughout the caregiving trajectory. Numerous studies have shown that the ways in which caregivers cope to caregiving-related stressors significantly shape their health outcomes. Despite this evidence, a clear and consistent understanding of caregivers’ own appraisals of their unmet needs, coping strategies and mental …


Uab Libraries News, 02 2026, Uab Libraries Feb 2026

Uab Libraries News, 02 2026, Uab Libraries

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January 30, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Jan 2026

January 30, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Unpacking A Health Paradox Among Preterm Infants: Insights From A Providers' Perception, Brittany Nicole Stewart Jan 2026

Unpacking A Health Paradox Among Preterm Infants: Insights From A Providers' Perception, Brittany Nicole Stewart

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The goal of this dissertation is to examine the varying perspectives, or frames, of providers regarding decision-making in the NICU, which includes how they view neonates and their families, their roles as providers, and the way their frames possibly impact the care they give to the infants. In this dissertation, I conduct in-depth interviews with 34 NICU providers and professionals that provide their services in the NICU, including doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, various therapists (i.e. respiratory, physical, occupational), and two other providers from two other professions. Within the NICU, a common stereotype exists that is a belief that White boy …


The Perception Of Fentanyl’S Harm, Rachel Antenucci Jan 2026

The Perception Of Fentanyl’S Harm, Rachel Antenucci

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While drug overdose deaths have generally decreased in the past year, close to 60,000 overdoses involving opioids occurred in 2024. The opioid crisis has lasted over two decades and is now in the fourth wave. The fourth wave has been characterized by overdoses resulting from fentanyl adulteration in the drug supply and polysubstance overdoses involving fentanyl. The purpose of the current study is to compare the perceived harm of fentanyl to other drugs of abuse and identify differences in the perceived harm of fentanyl between groups of people who use substances. An online survey was conducted across 15 states in …


Nilotinib-Mediated Reprogramming Of Bone Marrow Macrophages Alters Hematopoietic Stem Cell Fate In Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Tiffany Davia Ricketts Jan 2026

Nilotinib-Mediated Reprogramming Of Bone Marrow Macrophages Alters Hematopoietic Stem Cell Fate In Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Tiffany Davia Ricketts

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Tyrosine kinase inhibition (TKI) is highly effective and promotes favorable long-term outcomes for many patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). However, many patients experience treatment resistance or recurrence after TKI cessation due to leukemic stem cell (LSC) persistence within the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche. Within the niche, macrophages adopt different activation states to alter HSC function, however, CML disrupts niche signals to selectively support LSCs and macrophages may contribute to this process. We hypothesize that macrophages contribute to pro-inflammatory activation within the niche to promote LSC development and nilotinib will reprogram macrophages to selectively support non-leukemic stem cells. To …


Conserved Chromatin Programs Orchestrate Cardiac Cell States In Health And Disease And Drive Cardiomyocyte Proliferation After Injury, Xiaoxiao Geng Jan 2026

Conserved Chromatin Programs Orchestrate Cardiac Cell States In Health And Disease And Drive Cardiomyocyte Proliferation After Injury, Xiaoxiao Geng

ETDs from 2020-2029

Chromatin structure is a central regulator of gene expression and cellular identity, yet the chromatin structural factors driving cardiac disease and regeneration remain incompletely defined. This dissertation investigates how modulation of chromatin architecture shapes pathological and regenerative cardiac phenotypes through integrated single-cell transcriptomic, epigenomic, and functional analyses. To determine whether chromatin structural regulators distinguish healthy from diseased cardiac states, we curated a comprehensive list of chromatin structural genes and applied it to single-nuclei RNA sequencing datasets from human hearts with and without dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Chromatin structural gene expression effectively stratified cardiomyocyte and fibroblast populations by disease status. Diseased cardiomyocytes …


January 28, 2026 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Jan 2026

January 28, 2026 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

Blazer Weekly (student newsletter)

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Assessment Of Parental Knowledge And Anxiety Surrounding The Informed Consent Discussion For Neonatal Cardiac Interventions, Kristal Mancuso Hock Jan 2026

Assessment Of Parental Knowledge And Anxiety Surrounding The Informed Consent Discussion For Neonatal Cardiac Interventions, Kristal Mancuso Hock

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The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the complexities of the informed consent (IC) process in the context of neonatal cardiac interventions, with a focus on parental knowledge and anxiety during decision-making. Across three manuscripts, this work examined conceptual dimensions, feasibility, and acceptability of a new prenatal treatment (palliative care (PC) support sessions), and the effect sizes of this new treatment on parental knowledge and anxiety levels surrounding the IC discussion for neonatal cardiac palliations. The first manuscript employed dimensional analysis to conduct a concept analysis of IC in surgical care. The review of 27 publications revealed three distinct …


January 27, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Jan 2026

January 27, 2026 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Atlanta '96: The Games And The South, Beau Bowden Jan 2026

Atlanta '96: The Games And The South, Beau Bowden

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The Centennial Olympiad, hosted by Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996, demonstrated key principles of the postsouthern mindset, a movement typically associated with literary criticism that, if applied to historiographic methods, offers valuable insights into how Atlantans confronted competing identities of being a modern international city hailed as the Black Mecca, and a city forever linked to the Lost Cause, Ku Klux Klan, and racial inequality. During the Opening Ceremonies, specifically, Olympic organizers curated a celebration touting the city’s and region’s multiculturalism and corporate might, as described by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympics (ACOG), the body responsible for organizing the games, …


Expanding Access To Live Donation Opportunities: Implementing Telehealth Solutions To Enhance The Living Donor Navigator Program, Alexis Carter Jan 2026

Expanding Access To Live Donation Opportunities: Implementing Telehealth Solutions To Enhance The Living Donor Navigator Program, Alexis Carter

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Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the most effective treatment for patients with end-stage kidney disease; however, living donation rates have remained suboptimal over the past two decades. As a result, many interventions have been developed and tailored to increase living donation. The Living Donor Navigator (LDN) Program is one effort designed to help transplant candidates identify potential living donors and guide them through the donation process, using a combination of advocacy and systems training. The LDN Program is a lay-navigator-based intervention that equips participants with the knowledge, communication skills, and confidence needed to identify and engage potential living donors. …


Bright Eyes And The Kinfolk, Ariel Aileen Cochran Jan 2026

Bright Eyes And The Kinfolk, Ariel Aileen Cochran

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BRIGHT EYES AND THE KINFOLK ARIEL COCHRAN MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH – CREATIVE WRITING ABSTRACT Bright Eyes and The Kinfolk is a historical fiction set in the pre-Civil War South that pays homage to Western media including, but not limited to, Gunsmoke, The Virginian, The Rifleman, Two Mules For Sister Sara, and Tombstone. The story follows the enslaved Dahomey (modern Benin) African Tina Jones who is in search of Uyi, her younger brother that was recently sold off from the Jones plantation in Mobile, Alabama. With a lead pointing to the state of Texas, Tina sets out west and …


Novel Retinal Biomarker Development In Early Alzheimer’S Disease, Swetha Ravichandran Jan 2026

Novel Retinal Biomarker Development In Early Alzheimer’S Disease, Swetha Ravichandran

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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that causes damage to the neurons that are present in the brain. Progress in the management and treatment of AD is limited by lack of early diagnostics, which are critical to the development of effective therapies. It is therefore critical to develop non-invasive/cost efficient biomarkers to aid in early diagnosis and interventions to prevent or delay dementia onset. While Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and cerebrospinal fluid assessment have greatest utility, they are not routinely used because they are expensive and invasive, respectively. Retinal imaging offers a promising, low-cost, and non-invasive avenue for detecting …


Early Life Stress Mediates Cardiovascular Disease Risk Through Csf1r And Increases Risk Of Lupus Through Mature B-Cells, Cailin Elizabeth Kellum Jan 2026

Early Life Stress Mediates Cardiovascular Disease Risk Through Csf1r And Increases Risk Of Lupus Through Mature B-Cells, Cailin Elizabeth Kellum

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The term Early Life Stress (ELS) encompasses traumatic events occurring before the age of 18 such as physical abuse, verbal abuse, household dysfunctions, sexual abuse, childhood neglect, child maltreatment, and adverse childhood experiences. The traumatic psychological and physical experiences in early life are widely known to cause enduring effects on mental and physical health in adulthood. Of note, individuals with ELS have adverse health outcomes earlier in adulthood and with more severity such as in the case of Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE), an autoimmune disease. The risk for autoimmunity and cardiovascular disease (CVD) increases with ELS exposure and CVD is …


Awareness And Knowledge Of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Among Orthodontic And Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery Specialties In The United States., Kavita Nayar Jan 2026

Awareness And Knowledge Of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Among Orthodontic And Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery Specialties In The United States., Kavita Nayar

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Introduction: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is the most common chronic pediatric arthritis, frequently involving the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and resulting in facial growth disturbances, functional impairment, and complex multidisciplinary treatment needs. Despite its clinical relevance, limited awareness and inconsistent management strategies exist among specialists who are involved in the care of these patients including orthodontists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons and rheumatologists. This study aimed to evaluate the understanding, knowledge and interdisciplinary management practices between board-certified orthodontists and oral and maxillofacial surgeons (OMSs) across the United States regarding JIA. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was distributed electronically via Qualtrics to …


Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev, And The End Of The Cold War, Joshua Caleb Teasley Jan 2026

Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev, And The End Of The Cold War, Joshua Caleb Teasley

ETDs from 2020-2029

This work addresses key questions relating to the end of the Cold War. Contemporary wisdom suggests that Ronald Reagan’s policies beat the Soviet Union into submission, but this is not the case. Reagan’s initial policies were antagonistic towards the Soviet Union and his devotion to SDI later harmed his ability to establish relations with Michail Gorbachev later on. This thesis argues that it was George H.W. Bush, rather than Reagan, who was the more influential and effective President when dealing with the Soviet Union. Bush’s diplomacy was less idealized and more realistic than Reagan’s. Additionally, Bush was able to successfully …