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January 22, 2009
Pfizer Visiting Professor in Infectious Diseases to speak Jan. 26
Make plans to attend the next Department of Epidemiology seminar scheduled for Monday, Jan. 26 at noon in the Ryals School of Public Health Building, Room 407. The seminar topic is “Biomarkers of sexual activity where molecular biology meets behavior” presented by Pfizer Visiting Professor in Infectious Diseases Jonathan Zenilman, M.D., chief of the infectious diseases division at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
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January 22, 2009
Students host blood drive Jan. 27
The UAB School of Business chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) will sponsor a blood drive open to campus faculty, staff, students and the general public from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27. A mobile donation unit will be located in the student parking lot on the west side of the Business and Engineering Complex building at 1150 10th Ave. South. Donors will receive a free t-shirt, snacks and a drink.
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January 22, 2009
Retirees Association to meet Jan. 27
The UAB Retirees Association will meet Jan. 27 in the Homewood Library Auditorium. UAB President Carol Garrison is the featured speaker.
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January 22, 2009
Terri Jones is always ready for the opportunity to lead
Terri Jones’ drive, dedication and determination are a few of the reasons why the office services specialist in Prosthodontics is January’s Employee of the Month.
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January 22, 2009
Cracco engages prospective art students in studio work
Derek Cracco relishes the opportunity to sell the virtues of the Department of Art & Art History. The department’s talent, facilities and Birmingham’s rich cultural resources provide the three foundations for his pitch.
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January 22, 2009
New autism grant spurs mentoring relationship, research
Rajesh Kana and graduate student Heather Wadsworth will be studying how autism affects the ability to imitate and understand others in research funded by a new grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Network Intellectual and Developmental Disability Research Center (IDDRC) at UAB.
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January 22, 2009
PMS journal recognized again by Best Creative Nonfiction
PMS poemmemoirstory, the women’s literary journal published by the UAB Department of English, is receiving national recognition again – this time for its eighth edition.
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January 22, 2009
Students promote SciTech’s Tucker for national award
Diane Tucker’s vision that the campus could work together to provide an exciting set of research opportunities for undergraduates led to the creation of The Science and Technology Honors Program three years ago.
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January 22, 2009
Fouad named to NIH minority health advisory council
rofessor Mona Fouad, M.D., director of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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January 22, 2009
Man’s best friend also can provide therapeutic care
UAB partners with the non-profit Hand-In-Paw organization, professionally trained teams of people and their pets who motivate children with disabilities to reach therapy goals, comfort the lonely at nursing homes and ease the stress and pain of children and their families fighting chronic and terminal illnesses.
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