University of Alabama at Birmingham

LIFE in prison over a pair of headphones. This was a horrible decision and it will cost Carlos Stephens the rest of his natural life. On April 12, Stephens was found guilty of capital murder in the death of Destiny Washington, a 20-year-old student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded Cahaba Medical Care and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Family and Community Medicine a grant in the amount of $640,000 to create a new Family Residency Program at UAB Hospital-Highlands. This grant will expand the existing partnership between UAB and Cahaba Medical Care. Combined, the Cahaba-UAB Family Medicine Residency program is now a 20-20-20 Graduate Medical Educational Program with four “campuses” or “tracks”.

In 1998, entrepreneur Shegun Otulana arrived in Birmingham from his native Lagos, Nigeria. He followed his older brother to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, but found scholarships for international students hard to find — and even harder to find as a student coming from West Africa. As a...

A former UAB football player convicted in the slaying of Birmingham nursing student Destiny Washington has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Carlos Stephens, 24, was convicted in April of capital murder in the 2020 shooting death of 20-year-old Destiny Washington. The shooting happened on...

- Free Friday, June 10, opening reception with artist Erin LeAnn Mitchell in conversation with AEIVA’s John Fields. - A free screening of selected films by artist Lily Ahree Siegel, 6 p.m. Thursday, July 28. - Free closing reception and Alabama Triennial book release party Friday, Aug. 12, with...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The bats were on fire Thursday as the University of Alabama at Birmingham baseball team beat the University of Texas at San Antonio 18-7 during the first game of the series Thursday. The Blazers (31-21) were led by infielder Josh Sears, as he finished 4-for-6 with two home runs and now […]

BIRMINGHAM – The UAB baseball team dropped a 7-2 decision in the second of a three game series on Friday night at UTSA. The game was tied at 2-2 from the third inning until the bottom of the eighth, but UTSA then scored five runs in the eighth to even the series at 1-1. BothBrandon Willoughby and Christian Hall tallied RBIs for the Blazers, but UTSA's five runs came on six hits in the eighth, including two home runs, to claim the victory.

OXFORD – Allowing one run is a game typically results in a win. Allowing just one run over three games sent Holy Spirit Catholic softball to the AHSAA Class 1A state championship game. UAB commitment Alyssa Faircloth, a junior, pitched all but one inning during Holy Spirit's Friday wins and didn't allow an earned run. Holy Spirit...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – A former football player for the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been sentenced to life in prison in the death of a nursing student shot during an online sale that went bad. Carlos Stephens was convicted in April of capital murder in the 2020 shooting death of 20-year-old Destiny Washington. […]

Yogesh Vohra, Ph.D., is a co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation award that will bring the University of Alabama at Birmingham about $2 million over five years. The total NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program award of $20 million — with its principal investigator Gary Zank, Ph.D., based at...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Health leaders in our state are trying to prepare the public to help prevent traumatic injuries from taking a life. UAB Hospital is offering free training in treating gunshot and trauma wounds. The program is called “Stop the Bleed” and they want it to become as...

For the week ending May 15, positive cases in the UAB community were reported for 16 students, 12 non-clinical employees and 40 clinical employees, up from seven, 14 and 31, respectively, the previous week. UAB Hospital reported eight in-patients were positive with active COVID on May 16, up from four the prior week.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Former UAB Blazers football player Carlos Stephens was sentenced Wednesday for the killing of a nursing student during an online sale that went bad. Stephens was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in April of capital murder in the 2020 shooting death of 20-year-old Destiny Washington.

SAN ANTONIO – The bats were on fire in game one of a three game series at UTSA on Thursday night as the UAB baseball team notched an 18-7 victory at Roadrunner Field. The Blazers (31-21, 13-15 C-USA) have now scored 44 runs in their last three games and look to stay hot as they head to postseason play following this weekend's series.

Hearts for Hunger provides meals and snacks for children who are eligible for free and reduced cost school meals and families in need.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - A former UAB student-athlete was sentenced Wednesday to life without parole in the death of 20-year-old UAB student Destiny Washington. Carlos Londarrius Stephens, of Alabaster, shot and killed Washington with a pistol in December 2020. Washington was shot inside a vehicle in the parking lot at...

SAN ANTONIO – A six-run third and a 10-run seventh inning gave UAB a series opener 18-7 win over UTSA on Thursday night at Roadrunner Field. Tied after the first inning, the Blazers used two-high scoring innings to lead for the remaining eight innings. UTSA (33-19, 17-11 C-USA) moved to 19-6 at home and are now 5-4 all-time against the Blazers.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — May 18 is National Trauma Survivors Day and UAB Hospital recognized the day in a big way. UAB sees the worst of the worst as the only Level 1 Trauma Center in Alabama, but when their patients survive traumatic events, there is much to celebrate. On Wednesday, the hospital did just that.