Russell Taichman, DMD, DMSc, will become the UAB School of Dentistry dean in July 2019.

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.

Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., an authority on modern European history, including histories of racism and antisemitism, and the history of advertising and consumerism, will join UAB Jan. 1, 2019.

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.

Watts celebrates milestone year by praising students, faculty and staff who are powered by the will to push frontiers across all disciplines and in all pillars of UAB’s mission.

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.

All four candidates for the position of dean of the School of Dentistry have made their public presentations. Learn more about all the presentations and submit evaulations for the other candidates online.

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.

Philosophy’s Brynn Welch turned a real-life experience, the adoption of son Ben, into practical change — first through scholarly research, then a children’s book and now the classroom.

Carolyn Ashworth, Kohtaro Fujihashi, Jannet Katz, Rama Krishna and Leo Semes were honored as emeritus professors for exceptional service to the university and their profession.

Tammy Sharp, a financial officer in the Department of Neurosurgery, is UAB’s Employee of the Month.

The UAB Reporter wants to know how people in your unit volunteer. Submit a publicity request with the details and send a group selfie to reporter@uab.edu for a chance to be featured.

The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees awarded the rank Distinguished Professor to five — Stephen Barnes, Edwin Blalock, William Britt, Waldemar Carlo and Gregg Gilbert — during its meeting June 8.