Rich Searles, information systems specialist with the Division of Preventive Medicine, is UAB’s Employee of the Month for December

Sandra Cooper, environmental services specialist, is UAB’s Employee of the Month for November.

Scott Phillips, director of the UAB Center for Teaching and Learning, is the 2018 recipient of the Sam Brown Bridge Builder Award, given to a faculty or staff member who is committed to cross-campus collaboration.

The Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship highlighted student, employee and community-partner UAB Innovation Award winners.

The eight postdocs selected to receive Outstanding Postdoctoral Awards represent eight departments, divisions and schools across UAB.

Sonya Hardy, clinical trials manager for the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, is UAB’s Employee of the Month for October.

Frank Pajaron, hospital maintenance field supervisor, has been named UAB’s Employee of the Year. Pajaron was chosen from the Employee of the Month award-winners during the 12-month period ending in July 2018.

School of Nursing’s Cynthia Selleck, Ph.D., has spent years giving back to Birmingham’s most diverse and underserved populations, earning her the 2018 Odessa Woolfolk Community Service Award.

Cheryl Freeman, material transfer specialist in the Office of the Vice President for Research, is UAB’s Employee of the Month for September.