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A jury says a public Alabama university and an employee should pay millions in penalties in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by an Iranian-born cancer researcher. The jury reached the decision against the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Six families, who had loved ones die in the state prison system, have filed lawsuits against the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections and others, saying their family members' bodies were returned to them missing internal organs after undergoing state-ordered autopsies. The families crowded into a Montgomery courtroom Tuesday for a brief status conference in the consolidated litigation.

The three University of Alabama System campuses have shuttered diversity, equity and inclusion offices_ and shifted staff and functions to new programs. The moves were taken to comply with a new Republican-backed state law that seeks to ban so-called DEI programs on public college campuses in Alabama.

The families of Alabama prison inmates have filed lawsuits alleging that organs were harvested from the bodies of dead inmates, often against the wishes of relatives. CNN and the Courthouse News Service report Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm and the University of Alabama Birmingham are named in the suits.

Participants are being invited to run to support student scholarships during the University of Alabama at Birmingham National Alumni Society’s 18th annual Scholarship Run. The event is set to start at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 20.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is hosting its 2024 in-person and virtual Service Learning and Undergraduate Research Expo. It's happening Monday, April 15, through Friday, April 19.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham will move from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference. UAB officials said this shift will allow the school to gain more exposure, better finance its athletic programs and renew historic sports rivalries.

Musicians looking to succeed in the music industry are invited to a free conference March 9-10 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

A statewide effort to help Alabama students pursuing higher education save money is happening this week. More than fifty state colleges and universities are waiving their application fees through Friday.

Hospital patients often leave the healthcare system after their clothes are cut away. A new effort works to make sure these people are wearing something when they head home.