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Meet the student contact-tracers fighting COVID one call at a timeFour students tracking COVID spread for the School of Public Health and Alabama Department of Health share what a typical shift is like, the reactions they get and what they wish the public knew about contact tracing.COVID-19, virtual medicine and teaching an old doc new tricks
Neurologist Peter King, M.D., shares his experience coming to terms with telehealth.
See how Blazers are working well in midst of COVID-19 crisisGet a glimpse into how employees are continuing their unique and important work during UAB’s limited business operations.
Meet the scientists who volunteered to face the coronavirus up closeMembers of the lab of tuberculosis researcher Andries Steyn, Ph.D., have provided crucial assistance in UAB efforts to combat COVID-19.
GEAR UP Alabama brings history, college prep to Pike CountyUAB students, faculty and staff volunteered with students at Goshen High School in Pike County, Alabama, as part of the Black Belt Friday Bus Tour.
Optometry gives Gift of Sight at annual eventFor the fifth year, the UAB School of Optometry provided free comprehensive eye exams and glasses to nearly 200 Birmingham residents.
A slipstitch in time brings joy, comfort to families in the RNICUA group employees are helping families with premature infants and creating cross-campus chains with hooks and needles meant for yarn.
Biology spends service day at community food bankThe 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.
Medicine channeled the spirit of the season packing holiday mealsThe 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.
Radiology helps teens discover careers, earn scholarshipsThe 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.
Optometry students deliver eye care to 1,400 PanamaniansThe 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.
Volunteers get outside with scoutsThe 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.
Volunteers from UAB help GEAR UP Alabama prepare high schoolers for collegeThe 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.
Benevolent Fund leaders give back to BirminghamThe 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.
CFAR employees cook up community service at Blazer KitchenThe 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.
How does your unit volunteer? Send us a group selfie for a chance to be featuredThe UAB Reporter wants to know how you give back — whether it’s at a local food bank or in a clinic across the world.
Barrett uses graphic design to help save endangered woodpeckersDoug Barrett, associate professor of graphic design, spent two weeks at a Mississippi wildlife refuge creating a poetic map of endangered red-cockaded woodpecker habitats.
Blazer Motorsports gives students hands-on skills crucial for job marketTeam mentor Steve Thompson is neither an academic nor an engineer, but he knows exactly what students can get out of the experience.
Feature captures the international makeup of UAB’s facultyUAB’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.”
Volunteering is good for the soul, Stevenson saysMelanie 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.
Volunteering brings more gifts of friendship than it costs in time, Merchant saysJeanne 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.
Volunteering lets Hsu unplug and bond with othersYung-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.
Volunteering promotes life-long learning, Iddins saysBrenda 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.
Icolano continues family tradition of service to othersPaul 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.
Hutchinson answers ‘life’s highest calling’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.
UAB Behind the ScenesWe want to inspire and encourage people to seek out imaginative ways to use their time and talents to serve others. And we want to celebrate the service of UAB faculty, staff and students who reach across classes, cultures and continents into inner-city classrooms, rural clinics and far corners of the globe to make a better world for us all. Tell us how you are making a difference.
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Blazers stuck on campus during winter storm help each other, othersAn 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.
Many give thanks to those who offered help, shelter during stormUAB became a haven for faculty, staff, students and strangers who couldn't make it home after unexpected snow quickly turned to ice Tuesday, making safe travel near impossible. Here are some heartfelt messages of thanks to those who offered help and shelter during the storm.