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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Dec. 2, 2014:
· PHOTOS: Gov. Steve Beshear joined in the unveiling of a new pediatric dental-medical clinic. View here.
· PHOTOS: UofL President James Ramsey and Executive Director of Admissions Jenny Sawyer traveled to Northern Kentucky as part of their fall outreach tour. View here.
· Grawemeyer prize in world order goes to Rutgers legal historian. Read more.
· Nucleus graduates eighth LaunchIt class. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
The LaunchIt program offered by Nucleus: Kentucky’s Innovation Center has graduated more than 200 entrepreneurs.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Health & Wellness
1.) Save the date: Get Healthy Now Wellness Center Open House
2.) Learn how to care for your neck and spine
Miscellaneous
3.) CORRECTION: Attend the iClicker Demo
4.) Volunteers needed for Winterfest welcome and info station
5.) Thinking about school selection for your child? Talk about it
6.) New NIH biosketch format: keys to writing a compelling scientific narrative
7.) Give the gift of the universe
8.) Orion and Kentuckiana’s role in enabling deep space exploration
Seminars
9.) Oral Biology 605: Oral Health Seminar
10.) Microbiology and Immunology Seminar
11.) CRAFT Seminar: Ted Smith and Rebecca Fleischaker
Talks
12.) Psychological Services Center Colloquium Series
Grand Rounds
13.) Medicine: Dr. John Loughran
14.) Neuroscience
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Health & Wellness
1.) Save the date: Get Healthy Now Wellness Center Open House
Dec. 10, 4 to 7 p.m., Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym
Free, employees, retirees, and their spouse/QA
Did you know the “old” Humana Gym was completely renovated in 2013 and is now an employee-based, comprehensive wellness center? Beat the New Year rush and visit UofL’s Get Healthy Now Wellness Center for our Open House event. Come ready to work out, tour the Wellness Center and enjoy door prizes, snacks, equipment demos, fitness classes and more. Memberships available for the spouse/qualifying adult of employees. Join us to learn more and give yourself the gift of good health.
Additional Information: 852-7755 or ghn@louisville.edu.
2.) Learn how to care for your neck and spine
Dec. 3, 12:30 to 12:50 p.m., HP multipurpose room, Student Services Annex, Belknap Campus;
Dec. 12, 12:30 to 12:50 p.m., HSC Fitness Center, Chestnut Street Garage, Health Sciences Center
Free: employees, spouses, qualifying adults
Start your holidays off right with our December Take 20! Learn how to take care of your neck and spine in a mere 20 minutes at Get Healthy Now’s final Take 20 of 2014. Feel free to join us at an interactive session that will help you relax as you head toward the end of the semester. You will learn simple exercises to strengthen and stretch your back.
Additional Information: Register here or feel free to walk in.
Miscellaneous
3.) CORRECTION: Attend the iClicker Demo
Corrects registration link
Dec. 9, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ekstrom Library, Room 117A
Free
Please join the Delphi Center and Glen Garrett from iClicker for lunch and a session about iClicker/iClickerGo. iClicker is a tool that allows students to submit answers for in-class polling, and iClickerGo adds the convenience of using a smart phone or laptop as a substitute clicker. Lunch will be provided. Registration is required.
Additional Information: For questions or cancellations contact Linda Leake, 852-4332. Registration link.
4.) Volunteers needed for Winterfest welcome and info station
Jan. 7 and 8, SAC
Volunteers are needed to staff the welcome and info station on the first floor of the SAC. Shifts that last 1.25 hours are available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers will answer questions and offer campus resources, prizes, and free drinks and snacks from Sodexo and Pepsi. If you’re interested in volunteering, please fill out this form. WinterFest 2015 will be held Jan. 7 to 19.
Additional Information: Shelley Tewell, 852-3125.
5.) Thinking about school selection for your child? Talk about it
Dec. 4, noon to 1 p.m., Human Resources, Room 103A
The Great Places to Work Work-Life Balance Committee will host a brown bag lunch to have an informal discussion about school selection. The season is ideal for parents and guardians going through the JCPS application process who may have questions for those who have applied before. Attend either as a parent/guardian who previously completed the process and can offer suggestions, or as someone currently going through the process.
Additional Information: RSVP by email by Dec. 3.
6.) New NIH biosketch format: keys to writing a compelling scientific narrative
Dec. 4, 2 p.m., Vogt Engineering Building, Room 314
Free
The webinar will cover which accomplishments to include and what not to mention. Learn how to highlight your most important work without sounding self-serving and the basic components of a solid narrative that will grab the attention of the reviewers and put them in your corner for the review. Early investigators are likely not to have a long track record for the narrative, therefore, your presenter will cover career-stage specific aspects of the narrative that tell your story in a unique way. Light refreshments.
Additional Information: Carla Jones, 852-2454, website.
7.) Give the gift of the universe
Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium
Gift giving is made simple at the planetarium. UofL faculty, staff and students are able to purchase unlimited memberships at the special UofL rate: $20 individual (regularly $35) and $40 family (regularly $75). In addition to free admission to all public shows, members get sneak peeks of new shows, invitations to member-only events and other great perks.
Additional Information: Website, 852-6665.
8.) Orion and Kentuckiana’s role in enabling deep space exploration
Dec. 4, 7 p.m., Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium
Join Rich Boling, vice president of corporate advancement for Techshot to explore Kentuckiana’s rich history connected to space exploration and learn about Orion, NASA’s newest spacecraft intended to eventually take humans to Mars. Models of some of the space research devices developed by Techshot and sent into space will be on exhibit in the planetarium lobby.
Additional Information: Website, planet@louisville.edu, 852-6665.
Seminars
9.) Oral Biology 605: Oral Health Seminar
Dec. 5, noon to 1 p.m., Dental School, room 119
Dr. Hyun Koo, professor and director of research, department of orthodontics, University of Pennsylvania, will deliver a seminar titled “Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans: a synergistic alliance to amplify the virulence of cariogenic biofilms.”
Additional Information: g0buon01@louisville.edu.
10.) Microbiology and Immunology Seminar
Dec. 4, noon to 1 p.m., Baxter II, Room 038
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series presents “The Regulation of Alphavirus Replication: Minus strand synthesis and the stable nature of viral replication complexes,” by Dorothea L. Sawicki, PhD, professor, medical microbiology and immunology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, associate dean for graduate health science studies and vice chancellor of The University of Toledo.
Additional Information: Carolyn Burton, 852-6208.
11.) CRAFT Seminar: Ted Smith and Rebecca Fleischaker
Dec. 4, noon to 1 p.m., CTR 124
Free for postdocs
Louisville Forward, a new economic development initiative from Louisville Metro Government, seeks to foster a growing life sciences start-up community within Louisville. Ted Smith, chief of civic innovation for Louisville Metro Government, and Rebecca Fleischaker, deputy director for economic development at Louisville Forward, will hold a roundtable discussion about recent economic development efforts and highlight local opportunities for budding entrepreneurs.
Additional Information: John Tooley, Anna Bankston.
Talks
12.) Psychological Services Center Colloquium Series
Dec. 3, noon to 1 p.m., Strickler Hall 101
The Psychological Services Center (PSC) and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences are sponsoring the PSC Colloquium Series. The series is an extension of a continuing education focus designed to further professional development opportunities in the mental health community. The lecture will be presented by Tony Sheppard about Group Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: An Introduction. CE credits will be available.
Additional Information: Whitney Rebholz at the PSC, 852-6782.
Grand Rounds
13.) Medicine: Dr. John Loughran
Dec. 4, 8 a.m., Ambulatory Care Building auditorium
Medicine Grand Rounds features John H. Loughran, M.D., assistant professor of medicine in the UofL Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Loughran will present Mending a Broken Heart: Is Stem Cell Therapy a Tenable Option? focusing on understanding the rationale for alternative interventions such as stem cell therapy in patients suffering from post-infarction left ventricular dysfunction, clinical investigations of cell-based therapy, and how past trials shape future stem-cell research.
Additional Information: Jason Puckett, 852-1825.
14.) Neuroscience
Dec. 4, 8 to 9 a.m., Nursing School Rm. 4003
As part of Neuroscience Grand Rounds, the department of neurology is pleased to announce that Brittany Chapman, MD, from the department of neurology will present “Sleep and Epilepsy.”
Additional Information: For more information, including how to watch live on the web and receive CME credit, please click here and follow the instructions.
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