UAB SOM Trivia Crossword

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  1. 2. In 1945 ___________ for the Medical College of Alabama was $400 per scholastic year.
  2. 4. UAB School of Medicine has branch campuses in Tuscaloosa, Huntsville, and _________________.
  3. 6. Dr. Selwyn M. ___________ is the current dean of the UAB School of Medicine.
  4. 10. In July 1968 Dr. Herschell Lee ______________ received a clinical appointment in the Department of Surgery and became the first African American board-certified general surgeon at University Hospital.
  5. 12. In 1986, The University of Alabama Hospitals was renamed as The University of Alabama Hospital; but it remained more commonly known as "_________ _________."
  6. 14. The official UAB school colors are green and ______.
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  1. 1. UAB traces its roots to the 1859 founding of the ___________ __________ of Alabama.
  2. 3. In 1946 the first _________________ ceremony held in Birmingham had 21 students graduate from the Medical College of Alabama.
  3. 5. In June 1970, Richard Charles Dale and Samuel William Sullivan, Jr., became the first African American _____________ of the Medical College of Alabama.
  4. 6. UAB has had 4 different mascots, Pink Dragon, Beauregard T. Rooster, Blaze the ___________, and the current mascot, Blaze the Dragon.
  5. 7. In 2020, UAB established the first ___________ transplant program in the Southeast, this program is the first in the United States to offer this transplant outside of a clinical research trial. There currently are only three other such programs in the United States.
  6. 8. In 1977, the world’s first effective treatment for a viral disease, the deadly _________ simplex encephalitis, occurred at University Hospital.
  7. 9. In February 1944, the Medical College of Alabama moved from Tuscaloosa to __________________ and transitioned from a two-year program to a four-year program.
  8. 11. The UAB Campus is home to 4,400 trees, earning the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA designation for __________ consecutive years.
  9. 13. Dr. S. Richardson ______ Jr. was the second UAB President. Hint not only is there a building on campus named after him but there is also a SOM scholarship that honors him.