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The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.Founded in 1969 and part of the University of Alabama System, UAB has grown to be the state's largest employer, with more than 24,200 faculty and staff and over 53,000 jobs at the university.
Eli Capilouto, former Dean of UAB School of Public Health, former Provost of UAB, and current President of the University of Kentucky; April Carson, epidemiologist; Larry DeLucas, astronaut and research scientist; Ibrahim Fawal, professor of film and literature; Edith Frohock, book maker and educator; Stephen Glosecki, scholar of Old English [2]
UAB football began with the play of an organized club football team in 1989. [5] After two years competing as a club football team, on March 13, 1991, UAB President Charles McCallum and athletic director Gene Bartow announced that the university would compete in football as an NCAA Division III team beginning in the fall of 1991, with Jim Hilyer serving as the first head coach.
The UAB Blazers football team, representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has had 14 American football players drafted into the National Football League (NFL) since the university began its football program in 1991. [1] This includes two players taken in the first round, of which the highest pick was Bryan Thomas at 22nd overall in 2002.
UAB announced on June 1, 2015, that their football program will be re-instated. UAB was granted permission by the NCAA to rejoin NCAA Division I FBS level football and would be bowl-eligible when they officially returned to the field in fall 2017. The Blazers responded with the program's best regular-season record ever at 8–4.
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UAB is a vital economic engine of the state of Alabama with an estimated $7.15 billion annual impact. UAB is currently the state's largest employer with more than 24,000 faculty and staff and over 64,000 jobs at the university and in the health system. Almost 10% of the jobs in the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area are related to UAB. [4]