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The state-of-the-art balance machine at Spain Rehab helps patients learn to walk again.
The final blood drive of fiscal year 2009-2010 is under way, so make plans to go to the UAB Hospital North Pavilion at some point by Friday at 5 p.m. to do your part to help reach the UAB and American Red Cross blood partnership goal of 9,501 units. The drive begins at 8 a.m. each day. For more information about giving blood, go to www.givelife.org.
Beginning Oct. 18, the Office of the Provost will restructure its administrative organization to better align units and strengthen support for UAB's academic mission, says Provost Eli Capilouto.
UAB Public Relations & Marketing, which consists of the departments of Media Relations (including Electronic Media, Marketing/Web Communications, Creative, Periodicals, and Internal Communications and Relations), has made a concerted effort to use social media to promote all of UAB's success stories.
Dana Hettich, general reference librarian at Sterne, says those who read during Banned Books Week this year will have the option to be recorded on audio or video for a podcast that will be posted to the Sterne Library Facebook page and librarians’ blogs. If you want to participate, contact Hettich at dhettich@uab.edu or by phone at 934-6364 and schedule an appointment before Saturday, Oct. 2.
The Alabama Launchpad competition is back for a fifth year, and UAB faculty and staff interested in participating in the start-up business competition have until Oct. 15 to register. The first business plans are due Nov. 1.
Listen, watch and feel as MASS Ensemble creates a week-long massive arts experiment, performance and party at the Alys Stephens Center Sept. 20-24. Many events will be free.
The UAB Department of Foreign Languages and the Alliance Française of Birmingham are sponsoring a week in Paris, France, during Spring Break March 12-20, 2011 (8 days, 7 nights).
To find out what faculty and staff think about working at the university, UAB will conduct its first Faculty and Staff Climate Survey Sept. 21-Oct. 4.
Allen Johnston is teaching a cutting-edge course — Social Media and Virtual Communities in Business — that made its debut this past spring.
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