
Haley Herfurth
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.7 ways to protect your home from fire this holiday season
The holiday season is called the most wonderful time of the year — but it also can be one of the most dangerous. Learn the best ways to protect yourself, your home and your family from fires during the holidays.
Searles is Preventive Medicine’s go-to person for tech support
Rich Searles, information systems specialist with the Division of Preventive Medicine, is UAB’s Employee of the Month for December
New ‘History of Ideas’ prize encourages essay submissions through Jan. 6
The Michel de Montaigne Endowed Prize in the History of Ideas, established by CAS Senior Associate Dean Catherine Daniélou, Ph.D., is inspired by the 16th-century French essayist of the same name.
Some employee parking rates to increase beginning Jan. 1
Rate increases, the first in more than a decade, were based on the results of the 2016 comprehensive parking and transportation study to help UAB develop a five-year management plan.
Wiesen is new chair for History
Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., an authority on modern European history, including histories of racism and antisemitism, and the history of advertising and consumerism, joined UAB Jan. 1.
Sterne Library honors namesake with annual holiday philanthropy
UAB’s main library is named for local civic leader Mervyn H. Sterne, who fought to establish better funding for state public schools.
New LEED-certified Residence Hall 2020 ‘truly a win for our students’
The 231,000-square-foot U-shaped building will house 780 students, plus dedicated study spaces, a storm shelter, multi-use office space and a dining venue with three food vendors and a 250-person seating capacity.
Trade a toy donation for forgiven library fines through Dec. 6
Donations can be dropped off near the HUB desks on the first floors of both Lister Hill and Mervyn H. Sterne libraries; the toys will be combined with UAB Information Technology’s Toys for Tots collection.
Supplies collected for GEAR UP schools in the Black Belt
Support GEAR UP Alabama’s 11,000 students by bringing items such as pens, pencils, reams of paper and backpacks to Education Building Suite 126.