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UAB completes its eighth Habitat for Humanity house

UAB completes its eighth Habitat for Humanity house
Built by 217 Blazer volunteers, the Bessemer home was dedicated with a ceremony Dec. 6, allowing the Coach family to move in before the holidays.
Published in UAB in the Community

Birmingham Promise intern brings fresh perspective to UAB Human Resources

Birmingham Promise intern brings fresh perspective to UAB Human Resources
Through an internship with UAB HR Talent Acquisition, Birmingham City Schools student Kendall Petties gained skills and experience and helped inform UAB’s employee recruitment and retention efforts.
Published in UAB in the Community

How UAB is taking a leading role in health promotion worldwide

How UAB is taking a leading role in health promotion worldwide

Innovative programs and a high-profile position in the International Health Promoting Campuses Network have made UAB a model for other universities in the United States and beyond.

Published in UAB in the Community

UAB and Birmingham Promise: a partnership for the future

UAB and Birmingham Promise: a partnership for the future
Through an internship with UAB HR Talent Acquisition, Birmingham City Schools student Jaykease Rosales gained skills and experience and proved to be a strong asset to UAB’s employee recruitment and retention efforts.
Published in UAB in the Community

At Sparkman Center for Global Health, Alonge is focusing on “what works and why”

At Sparkman Center for Global Health, Alonge is focusing on “what works and why”
Olakunle Alonge, M.D., Ph.D., an expert in implementation science, joined UAB in 2023 as the center’s new director. In July, it will host an intensive implementation research institute with an emphasis on health inequities.
Published in Get Involved

Kayli Meek shares how UAB students can get the most out of volunteering

Kayli Meek shares how UAB students can get the most out of volunteering

Meek, a junior majoring in entrepreneurship, also is training as a GivePulse ambassador in her role at the Office of Service Learning and Undergraduate Research.

Published in Get Involved

Blazer Kitchen is powered by volunteers. What powers these employees who volunteer each week?

Blazer Kitchen is powered by volunteers. What powers these employees who volunteer each week?
Meet Candi Mosley and Shali Zhang, M.D., two regulars at UAB’s on-campus food pantry. The work helps her feel “useful outside my job… and it is fun,” Zhang said. Added Mosley: “You get to meet so many people.”
Published in Get Involved

Which Blazer Kitchen volunteer are you? Find your perfect fit for 2023

Which Blazer Kitchen volunteer are you? Find your perfect fit for 2023

Unload, weed, assist shoppers and more. Here are six ways you can serve your fellow Blazers at UAB’s food pantry as it experiences record growth.

Published in Get Involved

4 ways to honor service members this Veterans Day

4 ways to honor service members this Veterans Day

Attend the annual wreath-laying, donate to a blanket and clothing drive, read stories from UAB veterans and leave a message of thanks.

Published in Get Involved

Volunteers needed to build UAB’s Habitat House — build extended through Nov. 19

Volunteers needed to build UAB’s Habitat House — build extended through Nov. 19

Help complete the 2022 Habitat House, built for Eddie Mae Hopkins in Ensley, just in time for Thanksgiving celebrations. Sign up for a volunteer slot on BlazerPulse.

Published in Get Involved

Community shines light on a little-known incident in Civil Rights-era Birmingham

Community shines light on a little-known incident in Civil Rights-era Birmingham
UAB history students and faculty are contributing to the Beth-El Civil Rights Experience, an effort by the congregation of Birmingham’s Temple Beth-El to share the experiences of members of the city’s Jewish community during the era, including an attempted bombing in 1958.
Published in UAB in the Community

Sign up to volunteer to build UAB’s next Habitat House

Sign up to volunteer to build UAB’s next Habitat House

It’s time to build UAB’s seventh Habitat House — the university’s first following a pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals with a willingness to work can register to volunteer on BlazerPulse, UAB's community engagement platform, for slots available 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday-Saturday Sept. 29-Nov. 5.

Published in Get Involved

Experience life in a refugee camp — and learn how to help — June 25

Experience life in a refugee camp — and learn how to help — June 25
The Refugee Simulation offers an immersive experience and concrete steps to take action. Graduate student Agok Ayuen, who grew up in a refugee camp in Kenya and is now training in the School of Public Health, is helping to organize the event.
Published in Outreach

2 ways you can give back this holiday season

2 ways you can give back this holiday season

Help make the holidays merrier for Birmingham-area children by donating to two drives on campus this season — the annual UAB Toy Drive and Little Blazer Wishes.

Published in Get Involved

Donate hygiene items to Blazer Kitchen through Aug. 31

Donate hygiene items to Blazer Kitchen through Aug. 31

Donate items through Aug. 31 to stock the on-campus food bank with personal hygiene items such as feminine hygiene products, toilet paper and soap. Donations can be given to Staff Council representatives or dropped off at the 1613 Building.

Published in Get Involved

Changing lives, one tax return at a time

Changing lives, one tax return at a time
Enrollment in Eddie Nabors’s course on Poverty and Human Capability has more than tripled in the past year. Why? He gives students the chance to help the working poor receive thousands of dollars each and avoid scammers — even during a pandemic.
Published in UAB in the Community

Toxicologist unravels the dangerous medical mystery of ZaZa, Alabama’s 'gas-station dope'

Toxicologist unravels the dangerous medical mystery of ZaZa, Alabama’s 'gas-station dope'
When use of an obscure antidepressant exploded across the state, William Rushton, M.D., who directs UAB’s medical toxicology program and the state’s poison control hotline, began an investigation that led the Alabama Department of Public Health to halt sales.
Published in UAB in the Community

Alumna shares how her nonprofit pivoted during COVID and her first-year lessons

Alumna shares how her nonprofit pivoted during COVID and her first-year lessons

Laura Gilmour’s HUB Worldwide launched in 2019 with a mission to take unused medical equipment from the United States to the nations. When the pandemic brought operations to a halt, this MBA and public health grad focused on Alabama instead.

Published in Outreach

How volunteers are making history in a parking lot — and you can, too

How volunteers are making history in a parking lot — and you can, too

A vaccine site volunteer offers an insider’s view of the great shot-in-the-arm effort that can turn the tide against COVID-19.

Published in Get Involved

Physics courses inspired by ‘good games’ help draw high schoolers to STEM careers

Physics courses inspired by ‘good games’ help draw high schoolers to STEM careers

Coding with Physics workshops train teachers to incorporate storytelling, supportive teamwork, productive failure and other videogame techniques to engage teens in science.

Published in UAB in the Community

Volunteers needed at vaccination sites

Volunteers needed at vaccination sites

Learn more about responsibilities and sign up for a volunteer location.

Published in Get Involved

Reading leads children to a better life. Be a part of that journey.

Reading leads children to a better life. Be a part of that journey.

Reading level in third grade is an astounding predictor of life outcomes. Learn how one UAB partner organization prepares tutors to walk alongside struggling students.

Published in Get Involved

Watch, listen to these Birmingham stories during Black History Month

Watch, listen to these Birmingham stories during Black History Month

Find out how a local DJ passed coded messages to protestors, what life was like in a company town, why Black workers flocked to Birmingham’s steel mills and more in short films and oral histories from UAB students and faculty.

Published in UAB in the Community

Pledge your support to the Blazer family, Birmingham community with a gift to the Benevolent Fund

Pledge your support to the Blazer family, Birmingham community with a gift to the Benevolent Fund

Help the Benevolent Fund meet its spring campaign goal of $2 million and enable its continued support of the Blazer Kitchen, the Employee Emergency Assistance Program and other community partners.

Published in UAB in the Community

New Education Abroad certification means more interdisciplinary, inclusive programming

New Education Abroad certification means more interdisciplinary, inclusive programming

Ashley Neyer, Education Abroad director, earned the Forum on Education Abroad’s Professional Certification in Education Abroad, which provides those who work in the global education field with specialized knowledge and expertise — all of which will guide the continued growth of UAB Education Abroad.

Published in UAB Global
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