50Th Anniversary For The Academy Of Alabama At Birmingham Inward 2019
Sunday, January 13, 2019
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding inwards 1969.
UAB's traces its history dorsum along 2 paths to the 1859 founding of the Medical College of Alabama in addition to the 1936 opening of the Birmingham Extension Center of the University of Alabama.
In 1945 the Medical College of Alabama was moved from Tuscaloosa in addition to the University's Medical Center was founded inwards Birmingham. In 1954 the Extension Center was moved to a newly constructed facility side past times side to the Medical Center, bringing together for the get-go fourth dimension the University's 2 academic components inwards Birmingham.
Later, inwards Nov of 1966, the Extension Center in addition to the Medical Center were administratively merged to cast the "University of Alabama inwards Birmingham," an organizational cistron of the University of Alabama (in Tuscaloosa). In 1969 UAB became an independent institution, ane of the autonomous universities inside the newly created three-campus University of Alabama System.