November 2014 - The Reporter

Lisa McCormick took 15 students on a whirlwind tour of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia, exploring hurricane-ravaged neighborhoods, tuberculosis sanitariums and irradiated salt mines to help them better understand health inequities in the region.

Published in Academics
If you are a woman ages 55-90, you may qualify to participate in a research study evaluating a new treatment for osteoporosis. Eligible participants will receive study medication, and will be compensated up to $450 for completed visits. If interested, please call Josh Melnick at 205-975-0583 (jmelnick@uabmc.edu) or Stephanie Biggers at 205-934-1444 (sbiggers@uabmc.edu) to schedule a screening visit.
Published in Clinical Trials

Eva W. Lewis, an expert in higher education and health care leadership, planning and management has been named vice provost for institutional effectiveness and academic planning after a national search.

Published in Take Note
Five new virtual, self-directed workshops on the Performance Management site offer guidance on coaching, giving feedback, goal-setting and developing people to their full potential.
Published in Benefits & Policies

Gameday Done Right can provide everything from setup and breakdown to onsite customer service beginning at just $100 per game.

Published in Go Blazers!

UAB BTS logo FINALThe UAB Reporter wants to know how people in your unit volunteer. Submit a publicity request with the details and send a group selfie to reporter@uab.edu for a chance to be featured.

Published in Behind the Scenes

Employees who want to use one of the 16 newly opened electric car-charging stations can obtain a special permit from UAB Parking and Transportation. 

Published in Sustainability

retro art streamThe first class of International Dentist Program students graduated in June, but taking the School of Dentistry global is a vision that began when Joseph Volker was dean.

Published in Retro'spectives

UAB Safe streamBefore you crank the car, think about these four things that increase the risk of a crash — from drowsy driving to road rage — to increase the likelihood you’ll get safely to your destinations this summer.

Published in Employee Safety

With electronic-cigarette use on the rise, doctoral student Abdullah Alanazi and Eric Ford, Ph.D., professor in the School of Public Health, want to understand the trend’s relationship with drug use — and is using UAB’s informatics framework for translational research to do it.

Published in Research & Scholarship
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