The DOT Medical Examiner Certification Review Course prepares health-care providers to certify the medical fitness of commercial truck and bus drivers according to new federal guidelines that take effect May 21, 2014. Learn more and register for courses beginning this month at www.uab.edu/opd.

Public Radio WBHM 90.3 FM invites you to its Holiday Open House from 3-7 p.m. Dec. 12. Take a tour of the studios, share in some holiday treats, and visit with WBHM's on-air hosts and staff. WBHM is "Your NPR News Station" and a listener-supported service of UAB.

Support the annual toy drive by donating new, unwrapped toys suitable for children ages infant-12 years. Toys will be collected until noon Dec. 10. 

Some 61 percent of the state's industry-sponsored clinical trials are being conducted in Birmingham, home to UAB, according to a report that hails the quantity and the cutting-edge nature of the work.

UAB’s MD LearningChannel at learnmd.uabmedicine.org enables medical professionals worldwide to tap into the knowledge and expertise of UAB physicians on new research findings, procedures and changes and developments in diagnosis or treatment of disease.

Have you seen examples of achievement, courage, service and dedication by women at UAB? Join us in recognizing their efforts by nominating an outstanding woman student, faculty member, administrator, staff member and community member.

You can donate Dec. 9-14 in the UAB Hospital North Pavilion second floor atrium and at UAB Highlands Hospital Dec. 17-19.

School of Nursing Dean Doreen C. Harper, Ph.D., has been named a Legend in White by the Birmingham Black Nurses Association.

Steven Austad, Ph.D., and David Pollio, Ph.D., to lead departments within the College of Arts and Sciences.

UAB ranked No. 33 on the magazine's inaugural list of universities that help veterans pursue a college education under the post-9/11 GI Bill.