Media File: Blazers earn prestigious awards

Two UAB graduate students have received the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship award, which is given to outstanding graduate students who demonstrate the potential to contribute significantly to research, teaching and innovations in science and engineering.

Birmingham is known for its musical heritage and stars on American Idol, but Christophe Jackson is doing research that could help singers belt out even better tunes. His award winning research focuses on vocal endurance and he has tips for you, no matter your level of expertise.

Also be sure to note that Jackson is a concert pianist. The Montgomery native is studying biology and music and plans to enroll in UAB’s Master’s/Ph.D. program in Voice Science.

Johnnie Waid spends a lot of time thinking about how we travel. She’s a doctoral student in civil engineering with an emphasis in transportation. The Pinson native earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering at UAB. She plans to pursue a career in higher education.

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Your friend, Flickr

Flickr hosts your photographs, but data storage is the smallest of the site’s selling points. Flickr provides a myriad number of sub-communities through their tagging system and can connect you with other people shooting the same subjects through comments, pool projects or any of their many fun gadgets

There are several Alabama, Birmingham and other locally relevant communities on Flickr and a great potential for a thriving UAB community. Just a short look at the site shows there are many talented shutterbugs around town, and with their help and careful cultivation many ancillary communities could grow.

From the perspective of the University’s desire to improve upon the collegial atmosphere at UAB the online world is an excellent place to to concentrate because that audience — the students — are already there. Flickr is an easy starting point because of the ubiquity of digital cameras and camera phones. Perhaps some of the student social organizations could create contests as incentives to help insure that photos on flickr get the all-important UAB tag.

One of the most popular sites

Facebook reportedly has about 1.5 billion page views a day, up from about 1 billion daily views last month.
Emarketer.com cites Facebook as the overwhelming number one website for both males and females ages 17-25.

Jobster, and Facebook are joining forces to create a career site featuring video resumes. At least three other sites have already started that process and powerhouse YouTube isn’t far behind. If you search for resume on youtube today you’ll earn more than 5,000 returns. From an employers perspective, a hiring manager can view the clips immediately online, saving time and money by eliminating the first round of in-person interviews.

There are university side applications here as well. This is likely a few years off, but it isn’t difficult to envision a day when the 2.0 generation makes it from the high school through the lecture halls and into the workforce with this becoming a more common practice.