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Winnie Mandela, former president of the National Congress Women’s League and former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, will give a free public lecture at the Alys Stephens Center Monday, March 8 from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.
The UAB chapter of Engineers Without Borders will hold a Jason’s Deli box lunch delivery fundraiser Wednesday, March 10, to support the group’s upcoming humanitarian trip to Zambia.
The Feb. 12 Service Awards Reception cancelled due to bad weather will be held Wednesday, March 10.
3-D pictures of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) are based on a scientific model using X-ray crystallography at UAB’s Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering and cryo-electron microscopy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Sam Perna, Andy Duxbury and Ryan Nash are no strangers to opera or local theater. All three appeared in the Opera Birmingham production of Aida in January, as did their new “recruit,” Jim Raper. Duxbury says in medicine, it’s essential to understand your patients as people, not as a disease. He says acting and performing keep his mind sharp and help with his communication skills. His acting comrades agree.
UAB Hospital is one of 32 in the United States participating in a two-year project to identify, develop and disseminate a set of practical, easy-to-use tools to help redesign and improve health-care delivery processes. Faye Williams, right, is the nurse manager on W9N and leader of the project for UAB.
Dale Davis, center coordinator of the AMC, says that “training is the key to patient safety.” Included is a wireless simulator manikin for the OB/GYN suite and anesthetic gases and control room for the new operating suite.
Bharat Soni and Alan Shih are shown inside the visualization cube, the latest expansion of the School of Engineering’s computer imaging and simulation capabilities. It is hoped the visualization cube will lead to revolutionary advances in medicine, rehabilitation, emergency management, training and education.
They say change is good, it keeps you on your toes. Ralph Graham and Al Moradi have changed jobs responsibilities in a big way. Graham has assumed the role of director of campus maintenance — once held by Moradi — while Moradi now is the director of hospital maintenance, Graham’s previous position.
Jennifer Kilgo is collaborating with faculty from the UAB departments of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy, and speech-language pathology from the University of Montevallo to create the Project TransTeam – Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education (EI/ECSE) program.
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