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Using skills learned on campus, employee and 2-time UAB grad channels her passion for diversity into practical knowledge
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.
Table for 10,000, please: UAB Campus Dining has a lot on its plate for the World GamesUAB 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.
Discover how 3 units will showcase some of UAB’s unique expertise at The World Games PlazaFrom 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.
UAB’s squash, racquetball regulars courting spectators smitten by World Games actionFaculty aficionados of the two racquet sports explain the rules of their games and their gatherings at the Rec Center in advance of the global competition.Lacrosse club president sees major opportunity in The World GamesSenior Zach Eagen, president of UAB’s Men’s Lacrosse club team, will have a front-row seat to the action as liaison for the teams from Israel. The chance to watch the lacrosse world’s best in person will boost an already-growing sport in Birmingham and across the state, Eagen says.Dialing through the surges: COVID contact-tracers face burnout but stay motivatedMeet the students and staff helping Alabamians across the state stay safe and learn the truth about COVID vaccines, one call at a time.Equal Access Alabama delivers door-to-door vaccinations in rural AlabamaThe student-led group partnered with the Alabama Statewide Area Health Education Centers program to distribute Pfizer vaccine doses.
School of Education donated 479 books to Glen Iris ElementaryThe book donation enabled each student to self-select a book to read with their families and add to or start their home librar
Beta Alpha Psi gifts supply kits to local elementary schoolThe 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.
Behind the scenes of UAB's research powerhouse, these staff handle the devils in the detailsHigh-stakes negotiations, comma wars and acres of fine print — it’s all in a day’s work for the hard-working staff in the Office of Sponsored Programs.Collat scholars help foster reading readinessStudents labeled and bagged books to be donated to child development centers in Alabama.
Honors College students volunteer at Red BarnA 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.
Honors College students volunteer following Fultondale tornadoFifteen students helped sort and prep donated items and distribute them at the Gardendale Civic Center drive-thru.
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 tricksNeurologist 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.