Mad Splatter Party kicks off fall semester Continue Reading

It was not a holiday, but Thursday, August 26 was still a day for celebration. Continue Reading

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What are you doing to help the environment? Have you ditched the plastic water bottles and carry a reusable one instead. Maybe you bike to work a couple days a week. According to a recent study, there’s sometimes a big gap between what we say we should do and what we actually do.

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In 1976, when UAB added 45 city blocks for campus expansion, it was doubtful administrators could have predicted the enormous growth and need for more space the university would be facing less than 35 years later. Continue Reading

The Black Student Awareness Committee held a back to school barbecue on Friday, August 27 in the mini park. Continue Reading

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What are the essentials of life? Food, water, and shelter. And to get those you have to have some kind of paying work or be enrolled in a government assistance program. But for the working poor (many of whom don’t qualify for government assistance) even the basics can be too expensive. We’ll explore this today (8/27) at noon on WBHM’s On The Line: The Price of Poverty.

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90.3 WBHM is Birmingham’s public radio station. You can visit their website at wbhm.org.

NEW YORK–There’s no shortage of opinions–or theatrics–at the site of a proposed Islamic center and mosque two blocks from where the World Trade Center stood before two hijacked jetliners crashed into its twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Continue Reading

Blazer Nights brought a free movie, free food, games and entertainment to campus on Friday, August 20. Continue Reading

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When you brushed your teeth this morning or took a shower, did water come out of the faucet? You probably didn’t give it a second thought. For some though, even here in Alabama, water is far from a guarantee. As we continue our series The Price of Poverty, WBHM’s Andrew Yeager takes us to Hale County in the black belt, a place where seeing to it that everybody has clean, reliable water has been a bit like swimming upstream.

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90.3 WBHM is Birmingham’s public radio station. You can visit their website at wbhm.org.

An interview with current USGA President Brad Watts. Continue Reading