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.

Environmental Specialist Bernice Bowen is UAB’s July Employee of the Month.

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.

University College Building No. 2 has had a number of names since it opened in 1972. Forty-eight years later, UAB is still growing and building — alongside its original architecture.

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

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. 

Explore the fundamentals of team-based learning and develop a course module during an intensive, four-day workshop Aug. 13-15 and Aug. 21.

This week, a common blood pressure drug is revealed to be an effective therapy for Type I diabetes, a team from NSF is helping faculty and staff better understand how to commercialize their technology and work on the new intramural fields is nearly complete. See it online. All in one video.

The 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.

A new UAB Police Department Headquarters, Collat School of Business, Intramural and Club Sport Field Complex and School of Nursing will open their doors to the public for the first times in August and September.

The 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.

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.

UAB policy requires non-essential services, biweekly paid, full-time regular employees to use personal holidays by the last biweekly pay period in June — which for 2018 is the June June 10-23 pay period — or forfeit them. The 2018-19 personal holiday balance will be reflected on the June 24-July 7 pay-deposit statement.

The representatives will serve a two-year term that begins in August and ends in July 2020.

Paul Campbell Erwin, M.D., DrPH, who received his medical degree from the UAB School of Medicine, returns to Birmingham to lead the School of Public Health.

The public presentations are complete and feedback for the four candidates is being accepted through April 27. Read about them here or review their CVs online and complete the evaluation forms at uab.edu/humanresources/executivesearch.

“Dreams come true with hard work and perseverance,” Lee Moradi says — and just maybe a Grand Challenge proposal.

This year graduates and undergraduates will be awarded degrees in separate ceremonies.

Michelle Robinson, DMD, will work alongside departing Dean Mike Reddy, and a national search for a permanent dean will be launched.

Autumn Tooms Cyprès, Ed.D., an expert in politics in the professoriate and educational organizations, organizational reform and leadership preparation, will join UAB July 1.

UAB will name an interim dean in the next few months, to serve alongside departing Dean Mike Reddy, and a national search for a permanent dean will be launched.

Updates to the federal tax tables may cause increases in standard deductions, repeals of personal exemptions and changes in tax rates and tax brackets.

Research Vice President Chris Brown is looking for a problem that unites UAB expertise around a large-scale issue, and he plans to find it in a universitywide competition that kicks off in February.

The parking gates will be raised at the Sixth Avenue Parking Deck on these days to accommodate employees who normally park in remote lots and ride the bus or van.

Covered employees whose household income, based on family size, is 1.5 times the federal poverty level or less, are eligible for funds to offset the cost of medical premiums.

As a public employee with expectations of appropriate stewardship, you may not use your position to reap private gains or receive special benefits.

Beginning Nov. 13, vending machines in campus buildings not affiliated with UAB Hospital will switch to Pepsi products provided by Birmingham-based Buffalo Rock Co., and machines in hospital-affiliated buildings will begin serving Coca-Cola products.

In addition to Christmas Day — a scheduled holiday that occurs on a Monday this year — President Ray Watts has decided also to close the university campus Dec. 26 to provide additional time off for employees.

Several resources are available to help you make the selections that are best for your household during annual open enrollment.

Nationwide, the cost of health care is rising, and UAB is working to balance the affect of these costs on our employees and the organization. Here are some things you can do to reduce your out-of-pocket expenses.

The new UAB Medicine 4YOU is expected to provide stellar customer service that results in a better patient experience for employees.