Denise Goska, program administrator with the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, has been named December's Employee of the Month. Goska has been a UAB employee for more than 24 years. 

Get your 2014 Heart Walk T-shirt now and support Team UAB. Long- and short-sleeve shirts are available; prices range from $10-$14. Contact Aaryn Levert-Kidd at 934-2351 or alkidd@uabmc.edu. Funds raised by Team UAB help support our cardiovascular research.

New Horizons at UAB offers men and women of retirement age  lectures and other activities centered around issues important to them during eight-week sessions. Details online.

Nominate a faculty member for the Odessa Woolfolk Community Service Award who has served the Birmingham community through education, economic development, health-care delivery, the arts, social services, human rights and/ or urban and public affairs. The deadline is 5 p.m. Feb. 19. Direct questions to Linda Piteo at 934-9438.

Richard M. Allman, M.D., director of the Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging at UAB since 1992, has been appointed chief consultant for Geriatrics and Extended Care Services for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C. He will begin his service Jan. 12, 2014.

UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center has received a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Fast-Track grant to support a public performance and outreach programs conducted through ArtPlay.

Changes to a key protein amplified its natural ability to counter kidney disease, according to UAB research. The team now will work to confirm those results and conduct toxicity and dosing studies that would need before they could conduct human clinical trials. The study was published in the journal Nature Medicine.