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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Jan. 12, 2015:
· PHOTOS: Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, spoke Monday at UofL as a guest of the McConnell Center. View here.
· PHOTOS: McConnell Scholars met with Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in a private session the day before her speech. View here.
· Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, praised UofL associate public health professor Muriel J. Harris for her work fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone during a talk Monday as a guest of the McConnell Center. Read here.
· Conn Center startup earns national grant. Read here.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Junior UofL volleyball player Katie George was named Miss Kentucky USA 2015 on Sunday. It was her first pageant.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Health & Wellness
1.) Thinking about quitting smoking? Get Healthy Now can help
2.) Get Healthy Now offers mindfulness programs
IT
3.) Intermittent Internet slowness reported
Miscellaneous
4.) Faculty: Learn tools to help you blend critical thinking standards into everyday assessment
5.) Contract for scientific supplies, equipment and furniture awarded
6.) Gear up for the GRE in free workshop
7.) January EndNote class to be held at Kornhauser Health Sciences Library
Seminars
8.) Physiology and Biophysics seminar scheduled
Studies
9.) Children 8 to 13 years needed for anxiety and worry study
Grand Rounds
10.) Endocrinology
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Health & Wellness
1.) Thinking about quitting smoking? Get Healthy Now can help
Jan. 13, 4:30 p.m., Get Healthy Now Wellness Center, Humana Gym, 601 Presidents Blvd., Room 116
Free for employees/retirees and their spouses/qualifying adults
Become your own success story by registering for Get Healthy Now’s smoking cessation program. Smoking cessation classes use the Cooper-Clayton Method, a comprehensive behavioral smoking cessation program that was started more than 20 years ago by Thomas Cooper, DDS, a dentist and former heavy smoker, and Richard Clayton, PhD, an expert on drug addiction. This highly successful program is science-based and uses proven methods, including education, skills training and social support.
Additional Information: Questions: ghn@louisville.edu, 502-852-7755
2.) Get Healthy Now offers mindfulness programs
Drop in 5:30-5:55 p.m. (every Tuesday); MBSR Tuesdays 6:30-8:30 pm (Feb 17-April 4); Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym
Varies; UofL employees, retirees, and their spouse/QA
Experience Get Healthy Now’s mindfulness offerings in collaboration with Dr. Paul Salmon, associate professor in psychological and brain sciences. Experience the many health-enhancing benefits of reflection, stillness and being fully present. Come to a free Tuesday evening session or deepen your practice with the eight-session MBSR program ($80).
Additional Information: Learn more. Schedule. Email ghn@louisville.edu or call Stephanie Weldy, 502-852-2636
IT
3.) Intermittent Internet slowness reported
Information Technology has been receiving reports of intermittent Internet slowness for the past few weeks, primarily affecting network-based applications and services. A common symptom is taking a very long time to reach a login screen. IT is investigating all options to isolate the problem. If you have a consistent difficulty accessing an Internet-based application or website, please report it to the helpdesk at 502-852-7997 or email helpdesk@louisville.edu so we can investigate.
Miscellaneous
4.) Faculty: Learn tools to help you blend critical thinking standards into everyday assessment
Jan. 14, noon-2 p.m., Delphi Center Lab
It’s time to get up close and personal with your assessment! Join presenters Nisha Gupta and Il Barrow as they provide you with an opportunity to explore the assessment of student learning and critical thinking. Using Ideas to Action (i2a) Intellectual Standards (clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, and fairness), identify new ways and tools to assess student learning and critical thinking. Lunch is provided so registration is required.
Additional Information: Visit this link.
5.) Contract for scientific supplies, equipment and furniture awarded
VWR Scientific has been selected through an extensive Request for Proposal process to serve as the primary vendor for general scientific supplies, equipment and furniture. Effective immediately, departments should begin using the VWR Scientific contract. Specific contract details will be communicated in VWR Scientific conducted sessions, a February vendor trade show, on-site order training sessions and at the Jan, 20 UBM meeting.
Additional information: Bobbi Carlton.
6.) Gear up for the GRE in free workshop
Feb. 4, 4-8 p.m., Shumaker Building, Room 139
Free
The School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies and REACH are hosting a GRE test information workshop. UofL alumni and staff, post-baccalaureate students, current graduate and undergraduate students and community members are invited to attend. Please register, as space is limited. Registrations will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.
Additional Information: gradadm@louisville.edu. Register here.
7.) January EndNote class to be held at Kornhauser Health Sciences Library
Jan. 14, 10-11:30 a.m., Kornhauser History Room
Free to UofL community
Kornhauser Library is offering an Introduction to Endnote training. EndNote is a software program, for Mac or PC, used to create bibliographies, import/export references from databases, convert references to a chosen citation style and to manage PDFs. Software available here: http://louisville.edu/it/compsoftware/available
Additional Information: John Chennault, 502-852-3901
Seminars
8.) Physiology and Biophysics seminar scheduled
Jan. 13, 11:45 a.m., Baxter I Auditorium
Free
The Department of Physiology and Biology Seminar Series presents, “Peripheral immune response and neurological diseases: from the bench and bedside to the football field,” by Damir Janigro, PhD, professor of molecular medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
Additional Information: Website
Studies
9.) Children 8 to 13 years needed for anxiety and worry study
Life Sciences Building, Room 363
IRB #13.0923
Are you stressed? Is your child stressed, anxious or worried? We can help! The UofL Developmental Psychopathology Lab is conducting a study examining the nature of worry and anxiety in parents and children. Parents and their children between the ages of 8 and 13 years are eligible to participate. Participants will receive free diagnostic interviews, detailed feedback and a report outlining the results of our assessment.
Additional Information: 502-852-2351, email nwaffr01@louisville.edu or embort01@louisville.edu
Grand Rounds
10.) Endocrinology
Jan. 14, 4 p.m., Baxter II Research Building, lower level, Room 038
Please join us as Stephen J. Winters, MD, UofL professor of medicine, chief, division of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes, presents: “Adult McCune – Albright Syndrome.”
Additional Information: Kelly Galiette, 502-852-5237
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