This Blazer legend is IN! UAB Basketball Head Coach Andy Kennedy has come home to coach his alma mater after head coaching stints at Cincinnati and Ole Miss. AK still holds the UAB record for most points scored in a single game with 41. Just like Coach, you’ve scored your membership in the NAS. Sign-ups and dues are out—From Here On IN.
Larry Garrett is IN! He received a B.S. in computer science from UAB in 1991. Since graduating, he has worked as a software engineer, IT consultant, and business owner. He is currently working as an IT project manager for Southern Nuclear.
Robby Armstrong is IN! After earning his bachelor’s degree in industrial distribution in 1991, Robby worked in sales, marketing, and management for Eaton. Today, he is the chief operating officer and co-owner of City Wide of Milwaukee.
Nancy Moody is IN! This first-generation college student earned her third degree, a DNS/Ph.D. from the UAB School of Nursing in 1991. She worked for 30 years in higher education as faculty, department chair, and dean.
Pamela Stewart Fahs is IN! Pamela (Pam) Stewart Fahs is Associate Dean and professor and holds the Dr. G. Clifford and Florence B Decker Endowed Chair in Rural Nursing at Binghamton University, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Fahs is the Editor-in-Chief of the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care. Professor Stewart Fahs began her professional nursing career in an Appalachian Regional Miners Hospital in southeastern KY. Stewart Fahs was a KY National Guard and Army Nurse Corp Reserves officer for a decade, holding ranks from 2nd Lieutenant to Captain. With a research focus on Cardiovascular Disease in Rural Populations, she has built a research trajectory combining her expertise in cardiovascular disease, passion for rural health care, and community-based participatory research. She has been published in some of the top journals in her discipline, such as Nursing Research, Annual Review of Nursing Research, and Journal of Nursing Scholarship. Professor Fahs has successfully garnered research support from various sources ranging from local and regional non-profit organizations to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 2016, she received the Anna Mae Erickson Nurse Leadership Award from the Rural Nurse Organization. The University of Alabama (UAB) School of Nursing presented her with the Marie L. O’Koren Alumni Award for Innovation in 2017 and recognized her as one of the 70th Anniversary Visionary Leaders in 2021. Pamela Stewart Fahs, PhD, RN, FAAN, was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2022. Dr. Fahs received her DNS in 1991 (converted into a PhD) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She holds a Master of Science degree in Family Nursing, with certifications as a Family Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Scientist, from the State University of New York at Binghamton; a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Kentucky; and an Associate Degree in Science, Nursing from Eastern Kentucky University.
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