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October 17, 2024
Open enrollment for benefits starts at 7 a.m. Oct. 18
UAB’s annual open enrollment for benefits will be held Oct. 18-Nov. 4. Eligible employees can choose among dental, vision and health insurance plans plus voluntary plan options and tax-deferred spending accounts for health and dependent care for 2025.
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Benefits & Policies
From a 3 Tesla PET/MR to a 0.55 Tesla Freemax, this core facility offers research tools that are crucial to UAB’s neuroscience studies and more, as well as expert advice on the best protocols to use for individual experiments.
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Core Facilities
Specialized test-prep courses can be effective, but they are expensive and not covered by student loans. Samantha Giordano-Mooga, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Health Professions, has created a for-credit class that includes test prep and other support.
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Programs & Curricula
October 11, 2024
Voluntary supplemental benefits to be offered during open enrollment
Eligible employees of UAB, UAB Hospital and UAB Hospital Management LLC may choose voluntary benefits during the annual open enrollment Oct. 18- Nov. 4. These programs are voluntary and paid for by employees and can be canceled at any time.
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Benefits & Policies
October 11, 2024
Open enrollment for the Voluntary Employee Life and Voluntary Spouse Life insurances
The Standard Insurance Company is offering a true open enrollment for 2025 Voluntary Employee Life and Voluntary Spouse Life insurance elections during UAB’s annual open enrollment Oct. 18- Nov. 4.
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Benefits & Policies
October 11, 2024
With focus on implementation research, Sparkman Center’s Summer Institute attracts global cohort to Birmingham
Twenty-five participants from across the country and the world traveled to Birmingham for a weeklong program on the use of implementation research concepts and methods to address health inequities in global health research and practice at scale.
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Programs & Curricula
October 10, 2024
9 ways to reduce your health care costs in 2025
Nationwide, costs continue to rise, and UAB is working to balance the impact of these costs on its employees and the organization. Here are some things you can do to reduce your out-of-pocket expenses.
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Benefits & Policies
October 07, 2024
Premium rates for health, dental and vision available for 2025
For UAB to remain competitive in the market, stay in line with national benchmarks and keep costs down as much as possible for all employees, there will be medical plan design changes for 2025.
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Benefits & Policies
October 03, 2024
Vision coverage from VSP available during open enrollment
UAB offers vision benefits, and eligible employees of UAB, UAB Hospital and UAB Hospital Management LLC will have the option to choose or decline that coverage during the open enrollment for benefits Oct. 18-Nov. 4.
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Benefits & Policies
October 02, 2024
Professor’s new textbook challenges myths about Nazi Germany
In “Nazi Germany: Society, Culture and Politics,” Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., professor in the Department of History, highlights the current understanding, which has been slow to appear in textbooks, of the “tension between coercion and consensus” in the Nazi period, he said.
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