Take a glance around your office or clinic and you’ll find colleagues who make the world better, even outside their work at UAB.
The UAB Reporter wants to know how people in your unit volunteer — whether it’s at a local nonprofit or in a clinic across the world. Submit a publicity request with the details and a group selfie for a chance to be featured in Behind the Scenes. Find volunteer opportunities on BlazerPulse.
Morgan Peach, graduate assistant in UAB Student Housing and Residence Life, created a series of short training videos entirely in Spanish to familiarize cleaning crews contracted for the World Games with UAB’s processes and protocols — ensuring UAB puts its best foot forward while on the world stage.
UAB Campus Dining has been given a tall order to complete during the World Games in Birmingham. They must serve 10,000 meals to up to 3,400 diners per day, all while navigating labor and supply chain challenges and meeting impeccable food safety standards. How can they possibly do it? Simple. They have a recipe for success, and it calls for equal parts experience, efficiency, quality and taste, garnished with a side of good ol’ Southern hospitality.
From July 7-17, nearly 20 units from across the enterprise will host tailored, hands-on activities for visitors to the new World Games Plaza, located at Birmingham’s new City Walk BHAM near Protective Stadium and the Uptown district. The activities will highlight the best of what UAB has to offer — whether that’s in the classroom, the lab, the clinic or the conference room.
The student-led group partnered with the Alabama Statewide Area Health Education Centers program to distribute Pfizer vaccine doses.
The book donation enabled each student to self-select a book to read with their families and add to or start their home librar
The UAB chapter of Beta Alpha Psi provided 72 school supply kits filled with pens, notepads, crayons and folders to students at Glen Iris Elementary to help offset the high cost of school supplies for low-income families.
Students labeled and bagged books to be donated to child development centers in Alabama.
A group of eight volunteers helped rebuild roads, clear deadfall logs and sticks and cleaning horse fields at Red Barn, a family-run organization that teaches low-income children with disabilities to ride horses.
Fifteen students helped sort and prep donated items and distribute them at the Gardendale Civic Center drive-thru.
Neurologist Peter King, M.D., shares his experience coming to terms with telehealth.
Get a glimpse into how employees are continuing their unique and important work during UAB’s limited business operations.
Members of the lab of tuberculosis researcher Andries Steyn, Ph.D., have provided crucial assistance in UAB efforts to combat COVID-19.
UAB students, faculty and staff volunteered with students at Goshen High School in Pike County, Alabama, as part of the Black Belt Friday Bus Tour.
For the fifth year, the UAB School of Optometry provided free comprehensive eye exams and glasses to nearly 200 Birmingham residents.
A group employees are helping families with premature infants and creating cross-campus chains with hooks and needles meant for yarn.
The UAB Reporter wants to know how people in your unit volunteer. Submit a publicity request with the details and a group selfie for a chance to be featured. Find volunteer opportunities on BlazerPulse.
The UAB Reporter wants to know how people in your unit volunteer. Submit a publicity request with the details and a group selfie for a chance to be featured.
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 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 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 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 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 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 UAB Reporter wants to know how you give back — whether it’s at a local food bank or in a clinic across the world.
Doug Barrett, associate professor of graphic design, spent two weeks at a Mississippi wildlife refuge creating a poetic map of endangered red-cockaded woodpecker habitats.
Team mentor Steve Thompson is neither an academic nor an engineer, but he knows exactly what students can get out of the experience.
UAB’s ability to recruit employees worldwide adds promotes diversity in Birmingham and surrounding areas. Meet these five families featured in the paper’s Jan. 15 issue of the “Over the Mountain Journal.”
Melanie Stevenson is one of the UAB employees we’re spotlighting during National Volunteer Week to inspire, recognize and encouraged people to seek out imaginative ways to contribute to their communities. Share your story.
Jeanne Merchant is one of five UAB employees we’re spotlighting during National Volunteer Week to inspire, recognize and encourage people to seek out imaginative ways to contribute in their communities. Share your story.
Yung-Tsung Hsu is one of five UAB employees we’re spotlighting during National Volunteer Week to inspire, recognize and encourage people to seek out imaginative ways to contribute in their communities. Share your story.
Brenda Iddins is one of five UAB employees we’re spotlighting during National Volunteer Week to inspire, recognize and encourage people to seek out imaginative ways to contribute in their communities. Share your story.
Paul Icolano is one of five UAB employees we’re spotlighting during National Volunteer Week to inspire, recognize and encourage people to seek out imaginative ways to contribute in their communities. Share your story.
Myeisha Hutchison is one of five UAB employees we’re spotlighting during National Volunteer Week to inspire, recognize and encourage people to seek out imaginative ways to contribute in their communities. Share your story.
An unexpected two inches of snow quickly turned to ice and left many faculty, staff, students, travelers, patients and family members stranded and in need of food and shelter this week. That’s no small feat when you realize that if UAB were a city — its daily population would rank among the state’s top 20 largest.
