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Mark your calendar for a play date when UAB's Alys Stephens Center presents Disney's "Choo-Choo Soul with Genevieve!" at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19.
Join the UAB Resource Center Employee Assistance Program for an informative lunchtime program on eating disorders.
David Korevaar will perform in the UAB Piano Series at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19 in UAB's Alys Stephens Center.
Investigators from Optometry and Ophthalmology will move into newly renovated vision research Laboratories in Volker Hall to create more opportunities for collaboration. Paul Gamlin, Ph.D., professor and chair of Vision Sciences, says that proximity will help overcome challenges and make it easier to actively collaborate on projects and attract more grant funding and novel research. A special dedication and lecture is planned Sept. 23-24.
Lab director Heather Land is excited to show students the software program used for fall semester's math course. In addition to working problems and completing tests and quizzes, the math department also developed software that gives the instructor and advisors the ability to monitor student progress daily. The monitoring software shows the current course grade, homework grades, quiz grades — even the number of classes that have been attended or missed.
President Carol Garrison announced the launch of a one-stop repository for all current universitywide policies and associated procedures/guidelines. The library offers reference abstracts and a fully integrated and user-friendly search engine that locates documents by title, keyword, unit, or full text.
Walt Creel is not your run-of-the-mill artist. Instead of paints or pencils, Creel uses firearms to create his images.
Periodically, UAB republicizes existing policies so that new employees or new administrators will be kept informed of the policies and guidelines governing UAB.
Want to take advantage of UAB's outstanding Educational Assistance Program benefit for your dependents/spouse? Then now is the time to re-certify them; the deadline is the fall 2010 Drop/Add date of Tuesday, Aug. 24.
Ray L. Watts, M.D., will become senior vice president for Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine at UAB, effective Oct. 1.
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