UAB Students Receive Aid to Offset COVID-19 Expenses

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By Shannon Thomason

Before the pandemic, UAB graduate student Aubrey Mallory was in Orlando, Florida, for a semester interning at Walt Disney World. She was supposed to stay through May. But by mid-March, the job was cut short because of the pandemic, and Mallory was back in Birmingham with no source of income.

“I didn’t know how I was going to stay on top of my bills,” said Mallory, who graduated in May with a master’s degree in communication management. “I was afraid I was going to get so far behind that I wasn’t going to be able to catch up.”

Mallory, who is from Birmingham, heard about UAB’s Student COVID-19 Emergency Aid Fund. It was created to provide emergency aid to students facing lost wages, a decrease of financial support from parents, relocation expenses, and more, led by the UAB undergraduate and graduate student governments and UAB Student Affairs, and bolstered by efforts from UAB community members and donors. Mallory applied for assistance and was approved to receive enough emergency aid to help cover her bills. She is one of more than 1,000 students who have been helped by the fund, said Jonathan Adams, director of Student Conduct and Outreach for Student Affairs.

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