Basketball team celebrates courtside, circa 1991.

Jacque Nero (#35) and teammates celebrate courtside at a women's basketball game in the UAB Arena [now Bartow Arena].  Nero was a Blazer student-athlete from 1989 until 1992.  She became UAB's first-ever women's player to earn the honor of Conference Player of the Year (1991); she repeated in 1992 winning the same award.  She holds many records at UAB, ranking third all-time in points scored and fifth all-time in rebounds.  Nero was inducted into the UAB Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018.

March traditionally serves as the month for intercollegiate basketball tournaments, both within a conference and in the national NCAA tournament.  The UAB Women's Blazers have five regular-season conference championships and one conference tournament championship.  The Blazers have played in two NCAA tournaments and appeared in the Sweet Sixteen Round in 2000.

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Denman Hall, circa 1975.

In 1973 construction was completed on a student residence at UAB.  The new building provided 100 housing units in efficiencies, one-bedroom units, and three-bedroom suites.  In 1975 the residence hall was renamed Denman Hall in honor of Hugh Denman, an executive director of the Housing Authority of the Birmingham District (HABD) and a supporter of UAB.  Since the demolition of older facilities in 2002, Denman Hall has been the oldest remaining residence on the UAB campus.  Denman was closed before the fall 2024 term and demolition of the building began in January 2025.

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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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