UAB Briefs: Getting charged, NASA contract, art lecture
Welcome to another installment of UAB Briefs.
In this weekly online feature, we keep track of interesting people and events on campus.
Know people, places and programs on the UAB campus that deserve a mention? Email jchambers@starnespublishing.com.
GET CHARGED
UAB has partnered with Alabama Power Company to install 18 new electric vehicle charging stations at five locations on campus.
These new spots are designated for UAB faculty and staff only.
However, there are eight charging stations on campus -- unveiled last spring -- that are open to the public.
“EV charging stations are a new technology that can help educate the campus,” said Julie Price, manager of UAB Sustainability.
Sixteen of the new stations designated for UAB employees became available on June 29 at Lot 16A, Lot 16E, the 6th Avenue Parking Deck and the 19th Street Parking Deck.
The other two charging ports are located in the parking lot of the new Collat School of Business, which opens later this summer.
UAB’s public-access charging stations are located in Express Lot No. 4, 410 10th St. South, Lot 5A, 1500 University Boulevard and Lot 77, 921 19th St. South.
Electric vehicle drivers will need to download the free ChargePoint mobile app to use the Electric Vehicle Service Equipment (EVSEs). The stations are capable of fully charging an electric vehicle in four hours.
Policies regulating the use of the new EV-charging stations are available on the UAB Sustainability website, https://www.uab.edu/sustainability.
For a Google Map showing all of the charging stations, click here.
KEEPING COOL IN SPACE
NASA has doubled the size of its contract with the UAB Engineering Innovation and Technology Development group, according to media reports.
The group builds and maintain refrigerated storage units for the International Space Station.
The contract -- in place for several years -- is now worth as much as $50 million.
The UAB group has provided NASA with freezers that can store items at temperatures as cold as minus-256 degrees Fahrenheit.
The freezers are also monitored from the UAB campus while in space.
UAB BOOGIE
It was 2003 when noted painter and installation artist Carlos Rolón, who once called himself Dzine, created a large painting -- called “Tokyo Boogie” at the old location of UAB Visual Arts Gallery.
Now Rolón has a exhibit on display at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts -- “Carlos Rolón: Boxed,” through August 4 -- that includes “Tokyo Boogie.”
Independent curator, writer and editor Brett Levine -- who served as director of the UAB Visual Arts Gallery from 2001 until 2011 -- will deliver the lecture.