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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Nov. 10, 2015:
· VIDEO: A message from President James Ramsey: Thank a veteran today. View here.
· Cards SPEAK program to focus on suicide prevention. Read more.
· Notables for November, 2015. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Today is Veterans Day and there are more than 900 student veterans at the University of Louisville. We have been named a Military Friendly School for seven years in a row. Thank a veteran today!
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
1.) Apply now for Delphi U Online Spring 2016
2.) Make a splash with Get Healthy Now Water Fitness
3.) Fall into alignment with Get Healthy Now’s yoga/specialty class offerings
4.) Fire up your core muscles with Ab Lab
5.) It’s not a crock to healthy cooking
6.) Next Week: Providing Excellent Customer Service workshop
7.) Food truck schedule for Belknap this week
8.) Save the Date! Farmers Market one-day-only Holiday Bazaar
9.) See these additions to the Graduate Student Appreciation Week calendar
10.) Reading About Music: an interactive evening with Ally Jane Grossan, editor of the 33 1/3 Series
11.) PLAN introduces first graduate student publishing academy
12.) Reminder: Submit your events to the WinterFest 2016 calendar
13.) GO College Louisville tutoring program continued recruitment
14.) Phi Beta Kappa Lecture: Berea College president on liberal arts
15.) The Politics of Reconciliation in Zimbabwe
16.) Crossing the Corrupting Sea: Women on the Move in the Ancient Mediterranean
17.) Medicine: Dr. Maxwell Krem
18.) Neuroscience
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
1.) Apply now for Delphi U Online Spring 2016
Spring
Free
The Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning announces an online course to prepare instructors to teach online-Delphi U Online. The spring offering will launch February 1 and conclude April 3. Participants will learn two primary concepts: What it is like to be an online learner and how to effectively teach online. This is for full and part-time faculty planning to teach a new fully online course or enhance an online course between Summer 2016 and Summer 2017.
Additional Information: Registration is now open and positions are limited. Deb Hatfield, 852-0412.
Health and Wellness
2.) Make a splash with Get Healthy Now Water Fitness
Fall session: Sept. 1 – Dec. 10, Tuesday/Thursday, Noon to 12:45 p.m., Natatorium
Free, UofL employees, retirees and their spouse/QA
Are you looking for a form of exercise that is easy on the joints and big on fun? Join Get Healthy Now’s Water Fitness class during this Fall semester. The benefits of this class include increased energy, better sleep, relief from joint pain and more. Suitable for all fitness levels and no swimming skills needed (hair can stay dry or not). Enroll today!
Additional Information: GHN@louisville.edu 852-7755 Enrollment form https://louisville.edu/gethealthynow/get-involved/wellness-resources/fitness/water-fitness-class.
3.) Fall into alignment with Get Healthy Now’s yoga/specialty class offerings
See Group Fitness Schedule, Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym
PROMO Price: $20/semester unlimited yoga
Try our energizing and stress relieving classes like Power Vinyasa, PiYo and Core Yoga. These GHN offerings will focus on moves to increase both strength and flexibility. All classes are available to all fitness levels. First class is always free! New registrants can purchase unlimited access during the remainder of this fall semester for the price of $20.
Additional Information: Specialty Class Schedule: https://louisville.edu/gethealthynow/get-involved/wellness-resources/fitness/yoga; https://www.facebook.com/ULghn; http://louisville.edu/gethealthynow; Email ghn@louisville.edu; 852-7755.
4.) Fire up your core muscles with Ab Lab
Monday & Wednesdays 7:15 to 7:30 a.m., Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00 to 12:15 p.m., Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym
Free for GHN Wellness Center members
It’s time to get your abs toned and stronger for the upcoming holiday season with Get Healthy Now’s Ab Lab! This class will help you develop a toned physique and will help improve total ab strength with various ab exercises in just 15 minutes. Suitable for all fitness levels.
Additional Information: https://louisville.edu/gethealthynow/documents/group-fitness-schedule; http://louisville.edu/gethealthynow; Email ghn@louisville.edu; 852-7755.
5.) It’s not a crock to healthy cooking
Nov. 13, 11 to 11:20 a.m., SAC, Global Market
Free for employees, spouses, QAs
Warm up with a 20-minute cooking demo featuring healthy crockpot recipes. Get Healthy Now, City Café and Sodexo have teamed up for this sweet, savory and warming Take 20! Just set-it-and-forget-it! It’s the ideal time of year for slow cooker meals—what a great way to enjoy healthier home cooking while saving time, money and calories from eating out. Feel free to bring your UofL colleagues with you. Register here https://louisville.edu/gethealthynow/forms/take-20/fg_base_view_p3 or walk in.
Additional Information: Register here https://louisville.edu/gethealthynow/forms/take-20/fg_base_view_p3 or walk in.
6.) Next Week: Providing Excellent Customer Service workshop
Nov. 18, 1 to 2:30 p.m., Human Resources Building, Room 103A
Everyone’s idea of excellent customer service is a little different, so how do you make sure that everyone in your organization is on the same page? This workshop will explore the categories of customers you serve and create a clear and compelling picture of what excellent customer service means. Participants will learn strategies for dealing with customers and ensuring an outstanding experience while having fun and learning more about each other and their customers! Register online now.
Additional Information: http://louisville.edu/hr/training/customerservice; staffdev@louisville.edu
7.) Food truck schedule for Belknap this week
This week’s food truck schedule for Belknap Campus:
Wednesday, Nov. 11: Mark’s Feed Store, College of Business, 10:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 12: Pollo, Speed/Duthie, 10:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Additional Information: The Belknap Campus food truck schedule is coordinated by Sodexo. Information regarding food trucks elsewhere is not yet available.
8.) Save the Date! Farmers Market one-day-only Holiday Bazaar
Dec. 3, 2 to 6 p.m., Red Barn
This one-day Holiday Bazaar features the Belknap and Gray Street Farmers Market vendors coming together in one location for holiday shopping, local style! There will be food (breads, holiday hams and pork products, chicken, lamb, eggs, sausages, jams, jellies, pies, cookies, ice cream); clothing; items made from recycled coffee bags; jewelry; wind chimes; ornaments; soaps, lotions and non-toxic household cleaners; and much more!
See the invitation: www.facebook.com/BelknapFM.
9.) See these additions to the Graduate Student Appreciation Week calendar
Don’t forget to check out the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies website for the latest information on Graduate Student Appreciation Week events. New additions from the Speed School, Kent School, Chemistry Department, and others. Visit http://louisville.edu/graduate/current-students/graduate-student-appreciation-week to see them all!
Additional Information: Michelle Rodems, 852-3110.
10.) Reading About Music: an interactive evening with Ally Jane Grossan, editor of the 33 1/3 Series
Nov. 11, 7 p.m., The Bard’s Town, 1801 Bardstown Road
Free and open to the public
Join 33 1/3 editor Ally Jane Grossan, Joe Manning, Diane Pecknold, Aaron Rosenblum and other special guests for a night of Reading About Music. Bring your favorite piece of music writing to read and celebrate. DJ Kim Sorise will be spinning tunes!
For more information, visit http://louisville.edu/cchs or email tracy.heightchew@louisville.edu
11.) PLAN introduces first graduate student publishing academy
Free
The Publishing Academy is a semester-long series of sessions for graduate students designed to help navigate the complex landscape of academic publishing. Sessions will cover a variety of topics including citation metrics; copyright and licensing; selecting publishing venues; and the critical questions to ask and answer related to all of these areas. Applications are available at http://louisville.edu/graduate/plan/publishing-academy and the deadline is Dec. 1.
Additional Information: Michelle Rodems, 852-3110; http://louisville.edu/graduate/plan/publishing-academy.
12.) Reminder: Submit your events to the WinterFest 2016 calendar
If your office/department/program is holding events Jan. 6 – 24 and wants them included in the WinterFest calendar, the final deadline to submit is Nov. 16. WF welcomes our new and returning students to campus as they begin the spring semester, so we want them to have a full calendar of exciting opportunities! Please fill out the event submission form: http://louisville.edu/firstyear/events/event-submissions/WF-2016-submiss
Additional Information: Shelley Tewell, 852-3125.
13.) GO College Louisville tutoring program continued recruitment
GO College Louisville is preparing for the upcoming 2016 year and searching for interested individuals who can tutor high school students in your area of strength. The Fall portion of the tutoring program has been a great success and currently has a couple available opportunities if anyone is available to give a minimum of an hour of your free time to tutoring the students at Moore Traditional and/or The Academy @Shawnee High School.
Additional Information: Briaunna Polk, 852-4128.
14.) Phi Beta Kappa Lecture: Berea College president on liberal arts
Nov. 12, 6 p.m. with reception to follow, Humanities Building, Room 100
Free, reservations recommended
Berea College president Dr. Lyle Roelofs shares his thoughts on the benefits and necessity of continuing to offer a liberal arts education in higher education in “Liberal Arts Education: Think Like You Mean It.” A reception hosted by UofL’s Office of the President in the Shumaker lobby will immediately follow the lecture.
For more information and to register, visit http://louisville.edu/artsandsciences/about/features/events/PBK-2015-16 or email tracy.heightchew@louisville.edu.
15.) The Politics of Reconciliation in Zimbabwe
Nov. 11, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., Room 300, Humanities Building
Free and open to public
Ruth Murambadoro, ASA 2015 Presidential Fellow, University of Pretoria’s Research Talk: ‘The Politics of Reconciliation in Zimbabwe: A case study on tradition-based approaches in two local communities,” sponsored by the departments of history, liberal dtudies, Pan-African studies, philosophy and the College of Arts and Sciences Office of International, Diversity and Engagement Program.
Additional Information: Contact the Philosophy Department.
16.) Crossing the Corrupting Sea: Women on the Move in the Ancient Mediterranean
Nov. 12, 4 p.m., Chao Auditorium
Free
The Liberal Studies Project and the KY Society of the Archaeological Institute of America present the talk by Dr. Sheila Dillon as part of the Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World lecture series. Dillon is a professor of art history and classical studies at Duke University and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology. Dillon’s works include “The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World” and “Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects and Styles.
For more information, contact Janna Tajibaeva, 852-2247.
Grand Rounds
17.) Medicine: Dr. Maxwell Krem
Nov. 12, 8 a.m., Ambulatory Care Building auditorium
Medicine Grand Rounds features Maxwell Krem, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation at UofL. Dr. Krem will present Novel Targeted Therapy for Low-Grade Lymphoid Malignancies, focusing on age-related and biological risk factors for low-grade lymphoma pathogenesis and outcomes, the mechanisms of action of novel low-grade lymphoma therapies, and applying recent efficacy and toxicity data to older patients with low-grade lymphoma.
Additional Information: Jason Puckett, 852-1825.
18.) Neuroscience
Nov. 12, 8-9 a.m., Baxter Building Auditorium
Free
As part of Neuroscience Grand Rounds, the Department of Neurology is pleased to have Steven B. Lippmann, MD, from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences to present “Delirium.”
For more information, including how to watch live on the web and receive CME credit, please go to: http://louisville.edu/medicine/departments/neurosurgery/cme/grs and follow instructions
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