In the spotlight - Shweta Patel, Goldwater Scholarship Winner

Shweta Patel is the winner of prestigious Goldwater scholarship this year. She is a senior with Biology major at UAB. This year 278 sophomores and juniors nationwide were selected from 1,111 students nominated by their colleges and universities. Shweta is also part of the University Honors Program. Her career plan is to go into academic medicine: not only practice medicine at a leading medical university, but also teach and conduct research. “Academic medicine allows me to fulfill my goal—provide a health service to patients in need and conduct translational research to make improvements in medicine, helping those same patients”, Says Shweta. Her dedication to research helped her win the Goldwater Scholarship. Patel is the daughter of Naran and Kusum Patel of Forestdale.

07/01/10
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In the Spotlight - Effort Well Awarded

Two students from University of Alabama at Birmingham have won prestigious national scholarships. Shweta Patel and Sandhya Kumar were selected from among thousands of applicants to receive respectively a Goldwater Scholarship and a Fulbright Scholarship.

07/01/10
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Krish Varma Wins U.S. Critical Languages Scholarship to Study in India

May 14, 2010 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) junior Krish Varma, 21, of Mobile has won a 2010 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study in India.

05/15/10
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Arina Ghosh represents Alabama in Intel’s International Science Fair

May 13, 2010

Arina Ghosh, a junior at the Alabama School of fine Arts (ASFA), won first place in the senior division Chemistry category, at The Central Alabama Regional Engineering and Science fair (CARESF 2010), held at UAB in March.

05/13/10
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Sandhya Kumar Wins Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan

May 5, 2010

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) senior Sandhya Kumar, 21, of Huntsville has won a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan.

05/12/10
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Presidential Honors and Dean’s List - Spring 2010

05/12/10
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In the Spotlight - Bhavani Kakani

Ms. Bhavani Kakani is the Founder and President of AshaKiran, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educate, empathize, and empower people of South Asian origin who may be experiencing "crisis" situations. She is among the founding directors of Progress Bank and is on its Board.

05/01/10
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Shweta Patel Awarded Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

April 2, 2010
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Shweta Naran Patel is one of the three students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) named for 2010 Goldwater Scholars by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

Shweta, 21, is a junior majoring in molecular biology. She has a 4.0 grade-point average and is a member of the University Honors Program. Patel is an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Trygve Tollefsbol, Ph.D., investigating the role of natural compounds in breast-cancer prevention. She also is co-editor of UAB's undergraduate research journal Inquiro. Patel is the daughter of Naran and Kusum Patel of Forestdale.

04/08/10
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In the spotlight - Deepa Bhate

Deepa Bhate is the Founder & President of Building & Earth Sciences Inc., a Birmingham based consulting engineering firm specializing in geotechnical, environmental, and construction materials testing and special inspection services.

Deepa started the firm in 1999 and today it has grown to 180 employees in 10 offices in eight states. Building & Earth Sciences Inc. with Deepa Bhate at the helms has been ranked the

63rd fastest growing engineering firm in the nation with estimated annual sales of over $17 million.

03/01/10
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In Memory of Dr. Gopi Krishna Podila

Dr. Gopi Krishna Podila
(1957 – 2010)

Dr. Podila was a great leader in the scientific community all along and befriended many from all sectors of life through his pleasing mannerism, helpful nature, as well as interest in culture and arts. Dr. Podila is survived by his wife Vani, two daughters Bindu and Anila, mother Ramalakshmi Devi, and three brothers Sitaramanjaneya Sarma, Ravi and Siva Subrahmaniam. He was preceded in death by his father Surya Prakasa Rao, Retired Reader at Nagarjuna University, Guntur.

02/17/10
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