The UAB Blazer Cross-Country Team competed in an invitational tournament held at Auburn, Alabama.

The Women's Cross-Country program was initiated in 1979 with Brenda Williams as the first head coach.

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UAB employees mark the declaration of a smoke-free campus, 1990.

As of January 1, 1990, all buildings, grounds, parking lots, and parking decks across the UAB campus became smoke free.  The move to a smokeless campus was a gradual process.  In 1987 all indoor public areas within the university's multi-block medical center and hospital had become smoke free.

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Initially UAB celebrated homecoming during the basketball season. The first homecoming was celebrated at UAB in January 1979. After the establishment of an NCAA Division I-AA football team in 1993, the festivities were moved to the fall to be part of football season. The first homecoming celebrated during the fall was held October 1994.

The former home of the Second Presbyterian Church was acquired by UAB in 1970 and soon afterward became the home of the UAB-affiliated Alabama Ballet; the building became known as the Ballet House.  In 1985 the building was renamed as the Honors House when it became home to UAB's new Honors Program.  The old church building was renovated with funding provided by William and Virginia Spencer, and the newly renamed Spencer Honors House reopened on March 18, 2002.

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UAB Huntsville Regional Medical Campus, circa 1996

UAB assumed administrative responsibility of the School of Primary Medical Care at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) on October 1, 1995, and the UAB School of Medicine Huntsville Program was established.  The UAH school was founded in 1971 and had long been affiliated with the medical school in Birmingham before its acquisition by UAB and had served as a site of clinical training for medical students since 1974.  Today, the UAB Huntsville Regional Medical Campus is one of the four campuses of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine and is under the direction of a regional dean.  It is home to Family Medicine and Internal Medicine residency programs and hosts 130 medical students and residents.  It is also home of the Sparks Medical Library, a component of the UAB Libraries.  A new facility, the primary clinical and academic space for the Huntsville regional campus, was completed in 2003.

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This dinner event is typically held during the Christmas season and is often accompanied by choral music and a play featuring characters from the Middle Ages.

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The UAB Critical Care Transport Service began in 1983 with transportation by specially equipped ambulance or medical jet. As of 2013 the CCT service has transported over 42,000 patients and has logged more than 27 million miles.

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In the September 28, 1992, issue of U.S. News & World Report, UAB was selected in the magazine's annual best colleges issue as the No. 1 Up and Coming University in the nation.  To celebrate, UAB staff placed a banner on the 13th Street pedestrian bridge over University Boulevard so that all traveling through campus would learn of this honor.

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The first home game for the UAB Blazers as an NCAA Division III team was held at Legion Field. UAB lost to the Crusaders of Evangel College (Missouri). The Blazers recorded their first home win on November 9, defeating Hastings College by a score of 9-7.

This month, UAB returned to the football field after an absence of two seasons. The Blazers defeated the Bulldogs of Alabama A&M by the score of 38-7. A record crowd of 45,212 attended the game at Legion Field on September 2, 2017.

Go Blazers!!!

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