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Headed to Medical School? Thank Abraham Flexner.

February 22nd, 2011 · No Comments

For most of recorded history, it has been almost impossible to tell the difference between a trained experienced doctor and a quack who is a [...]

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Dictionary online?

February 3rd, 2011 · No Comments

Did you know that you have access to an dictionaries via our databases page?  You actually have access to a number of different ones.  As [...]

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Dr. Freeman Hrabowski @ the HUC

February 1st, 2011 · No Comments

Today, at the invitation of UAB’s African American Studies Program,  Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, gave at lecture at the HUC Alumni Auditorium on “Preparing African-Americans [...]

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Happy Belated Birthday Wikipedia

January 31st, 2011 · No Comments

Wikipedia was originally conceived as a side project of something Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger called Nupedia.  The initial idea of Wikipedia can actually be [...]

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Juan Williams @ the HUC

January 21st, 2011 · No Comments

Writer and political commentator Juan Williams will be on campus next week as part of UAB’s Community Week.   While much has been made of his [...]

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