Outreach, Engagement & Lab Events

Celebrating our people, partnerships, and community impact.

Led by Dr. Chengyi Xu, a 2022 NNCI Accelerating Impactful Scholarship participant, X-Lab broadens participation in STEM through open lab days, school visits, research experiences, and community partnerships.

Interested in visiting the lab or collaborating on an outreach event? Contact us at cxu@uab.edu.

Welcome Prof. Albert Liu from UMich Chemical Engineering to Visit Our X-Lab at MME and Deliver a Great Seminar! (2026)

Dr. Xu Delivers an Invited 'Grand Rounds' Seminar at the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation(2026)

Dr. Xu Co-Organizes and Co-Hosts the 'Stimuli-Responsive Materials & Devices' at the 150th ACS Fall Meeting in Chicago (2026)

Dr. Xu Delivers an Invited Talk at Conference on

Mechanisms of Touch and FBM (2026)

Dr. Xu Delivers a Seminar at UAB Research & College Day for Students from American Academy for Young Professionals (AA-YP) (2026)

Dr. Xu is Highlighted as an Emerging Investigator by JMCC, Royal Society of Chemistry (2026)

Chloe Mondido Earns Third Place at the UAB Expo · NSF REU (2026)

Harun Completes His M.S. and Joins KUET as Faculty (2026)

Dr. Xu Receives the SOE Community Engagement & Service Award (2026)

Welcome Back, Ashima Brijesh Joins Google in Sunnyvale (2026)

Summer Get-Together & 2026 X-Lab Alumni Send-Off

X-Lab Senior Design Team at Media Day · All A’s (2026)

Greeshma Wins First Place at the Alabama Science & Engineering Fair (2026)

Greeshma Wins First Place at the Alabama Junior Academy of Science (April, 2026)

Albert Chen & Greeshma Vinoy Compete at CARSEF (2026)

CARSEF Engineering Judging Service (March, 2026)

McWane Science Center Engineering Showcase · February 27, 2026

NSF Noyce STEM Teacher Program Visit · February 18, 2026

Open Lab Day · February 3, 2026

X-Lab New Year Gathering · January 29, 2026

Welcome Prof. Yuanwen Jiang from UPenn MSE to Visit Our X-Lab at MME and Deliver a Great Seminar! (2026)

Dr. Xu Serves as a Guest Editor for 'Bioelectronics and Biosensors' collection at Scientific Reports, Nature Portfolio Q1 Journal (2026)

NSBE Future Engineers of America Outreach at UAB · November 8, 2025

Major Discovery Fair · October 2, 2025

School of Engineering Open House · September 20, 2025

UAB MME Open House · September 16, 2025

NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) · Summer 2025

Heritage Festival with Southern STEM Center · May 16, 2025

Central Alabama Science & Engineering Fair · March 1, 2025

FIRST Tech Challenge UAB Qualifier · January 18, 2025

Google Minority Serving Institutions Summit · January 16, 2025

Open Foundry at MPAD · November 16, 2024