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Princeton Weekly Bulletin October 9, 2006, Vol. 96, No. 5 prev next current
- Page One
- • Students launch English immersion program in China
- • Grant supports expansion of community-based research
- Inside
- • Actors, scholars, playwrights here for Irish theater symposium
- • HR classes connect staff with new skills, peer networks
- Benefits update
- • Open enrollment gives employees opportunity to evaluate coverage
- • Key health care plan changes for 2007
- • Need more information? Check out these sources
- • Mammography screening offered
- • Benefits Fairs set for Oct. 17-18
- People
- • Spotlight
- Almanac
- • Calendar of events
- • Nassau notes
- • By the numbers
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Benefits update
Benefits Fairs set for Oct. 17-18
Princeton NJ — Have questions about your benefits? Come to a Benefits Fair sponsored by the Office of Human Resources.
The events will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, in the Spitzer Building at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, in the Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Rooms.
Representatives from the various health, welfare and retirement vendors will be available. Participants will be able to:
• Learn what benefit options are available by speaking with representatives from the Office of Human Resources, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Crosby Benefit Systems, Medco, Carebridge, VSP, CNA and Prudential Life Insurance.
• Get questions about retirement accounts answered by representatives from TIAA-CREF and Vanguard.
• Learn about the upcoming mammography screening program from members of the staff at the University Medical Center at Princeton (see story at left).
• Get information about programs on ridesharing, walking or biking and the use of mass transit to commute to and from work from representatives of the Greater Mercer Transportation Management Association.
• Receive assistance with online enrollment.
Reservations are not required to attend the Benefits Fairs.