UAB Briefs: Helping the victims of Hurricane Harvey
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Helping cancer patients affected by hurricane
The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center will do whatever it can to help any cancer patients displaced by Hurricane Harvey or otherwise unable to be in the Houston region for tests or treatment, according to an announcement by the CCC director, Dr. Michael Birrer.
“In times like this, cancer care providers are a single team, and we welcome partnering with all of our flood-affected oncologists to help deliver the very best to our patients,” Birrer said.
The CCC will arrange for the immediate appointment and, if necessary, admission for any patient in the MD Anderson Cancer Center system, as well as other hospitals affected by the storm and flooding for whom care has been disrupted, according to Birrer.
For information, call 205-934-5077 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. central time.
UAB fans can help Houston and South Texas
Fans attending the football game between UAB and Alabama A&M at Legion Field on Saturday are encouraged to bring donations of canned food for the victims of Hurricane Harvey and subsequent flooding, according to an announcement by Birmingham Mayor William Bell.
“We expect a huge crowd for the return of UAB football,” Bell said. “If every fan just brings one canned item, we will make a huge impact.”
Donation boxes will be set up at the gates for fans to drop off their items before going into the stadium.
Women only
The first in a series of all-women group art exhibitions, Women with their Work: I, will open at Space One Eleven downtown on Friday, Sept. 8, according to a UAB new release.
The series is organized by SOE and the UAB Department of Art and Art History.
It is co-curated by SOE co-founder Peter Prinz and Jessica Dallow, interim chair of the art department and an authority in modern and contemporary feminist art.
Birmingham artists in the exhibition are Catherine Cabaniss, Celestia Morgan, Beverly Erdreich, Melanie Grinney and Miriam Norris Omura.
Miami artist Rosa Naday Garmendia’s work will be exhibited, as well as artist L.A. Watson of Frankfort, Kentucky.
The artists will address such social justice as war, racism, pollution and bodily integrity.
A panel discussion with some of the artists will be held on Thursday, Sept. 7, at 5:30 p.m.
The exhibition will be on display at through Dec. 29.
SOE is located at 2409 Second Ave. North.
Free English classes
UAB will offer free English classes for international faculty and staff and their family members, as well as students and other language learners in the Birmingham area, beginning Thursday, Sept. 7.
The classes are hosted by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the UAB School of Education.
The classes are a teaching opportunity for UAB graduate students in the master’s program in teaching English as a Second Language.
Classes will be held in the UAB Education Building, Suite 119, on Thursdays from 7:30-9:00 p.m. and Fridays from 9:30-11 a.m.
Registration takes place on the first day of class and will continue throughout the semester.
For more information, visit the community English class website or contact Josie Prado at 205-975-5045.