Open enrollment under way
Open enrollment for health, dental and life insurance as well as other employee benefits will be in effect until 5 p.m., Nov. 2. Employees may enroll, change or cancel dependents and coverage for benefits including long term disability, optional retirement plan, accidental death and dismemberment, as well as medical and dependent care spending accounts. Any changes made become effective Jan. 1, when the new rates take effect. A new health insurance option has become available, a high deductible PPO plan. All enrollment forms are available online at www.hr.uga.edu. For additional information, contact Human Resources at (706) 542-2222, or benefits@uga.edu.

Flu shots available Oct. 22
Flu shots will be offered to students, faculty, staff and faculty emeritus at the University Health Center by appointment beginning Oct. 22.

The shots, which cost $12 for fee-paid students and $25 for nonfees-paid students, faculty, staff and faculty emeritus, will be offered Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m.–­­ 4 p.m.

Payment can be made by cash, check, Bulldog Bucks or debit/credit cards. A receipt will be provided for insurance filing purposes if desired.

For more information, contact the Allergy/Travel Medicine Clinic at (706) 542-5575.

DAWGtoberfest at Brooks Mall
The College of Pharmacy will celebrate National Pharmacist Month on Oct. 17 from 2–5 p.m. with DAWGtoberfest: Rx for Good Health.

The event will include a health fair with student and faculty booths set up to give free awareness and screening information on asthma, breast cancer, diabetes, fad diets, immunizations, sexually transmitted diseases, women’s health, pediatrics and heartburn. Pharmacy faculty and students will be on hand to answer questions about prescription and nonprescription medications.

Flu shots will be available for $25. Cash, debit cards and credit cards will be accepted.
Visitors to the health fair will receive free body fat analysis, diabetes assessment, bone density checks and blood pressure checks.

Held on the D.W. Brooks Mall, DAWGtoberfest is open to university students, faculty, staff and families in the Athens community and is sponsored by the Academy of Student Pharmacists. Light refreshments will be provided. T-shirts and other prizes will be given out every hour.

‘Clicker’ workshop
The Teaching Academy and the Center for Teaching and Learning will present a workshop entitled “Classroom Response Systems: An Introduction to Teaching with Clickers” on Oct. 22 from 3–4:30 p.m. in Room 248 of the Student Learning Center.

Derek Bruff, assistant director of the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, will lead the workshop on classroom response systems, which are often called “personal response systems,” or “clickers.”

The system enables a teacher to pose multiple-choice questions to students in class via PowerPoint and allows the students to submit individual answers via a handheld transmitter. Software collects the answers and produces a histogram of answers for the whole class.

A reception will follow the workshop in the SLC North Tower.

For more information, contact Nelson Hilton, nhilton@uga.edu.

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