Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Sept. 10, 2014:
· VIDEO: Kornhauser Library began the 2014-15 school year with a new look and a new partner. Renovations brought more study and lounge space for students, while a partnership with KentuckyOne Health brought the library’s services to more than to 18 hospitals and 3,000 health practitioners across the state. Watch here.
· Latin American films celebrated at festival. Read more.
· State of the University address is next week. Read more.
· Season tickets now available for theatre department performances. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
More than 60 student journalists from in and around Kentucky have signed up so far for Louisville Media Institute 2014, the first conference of its kind at UofL. Those attending the Sept. 19-20 event in Chao Auditorium at Ekstrom Library will take part in sessions led by a dozen news professionals on everything from investigative reporting to social media. Lyndsey Gilpin and Conner Forrest, two UofL communication graduates who now work for CBS Interactive, will be among the presenters. The icebreaker? Student journalists will be asked to take a selfie with someone they don’t know and write a headline about it.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Today’s farmers markets: Cooler weather = apples!
1.) Gray Street
2.) Belknap
Miscellaneous
3.) Research!Louisville 2014 begins Tuesday
4.) Research!Louisville 2014 Keynote Address is Sept. 19
5.) Mary Woolley to discuss our role in changing hearts and minds for science
6.) Lunch and Learn: How to get better sleep
7.) Death row exonoree to visit Brandeis School of Law
Studies
8.) Pediatric constipation
Talks
9.) Chemistry seminar
Grand Rounds
10.) Pediatrics
11.) Family and Geriatric Medicine
12.) Orthopaedic Surgery
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Today’s farmers markets: Cooler weather = apples!
1.) Gray Street
Thursdays through Oct. 30, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., 400 block of E. Gray Street, rain or shine
Some items available today will include: watermelon, corn, beets, tomatoes, peppers, apples, squash, pie pumpkins, cantaloupe, artisan cheeses, vegetable pancakes, blueberry lemon bread, hot chocolate zucchini bread, granola, jams, pickles, cookies, potted plants. Lunch options are Sweet ‘N Savory and Longshot Lobsta.
Additional Information: www.facebook.com/UofLGSFM; Website.
2.) Belknap
Thursdays through Oct. 16, 3:30 to 6 p.m., 3rd and Brandeis, rain or shine
Some items available today include: apples, peaches, apple butter, honey, tomatoes, butternut squash, salad mix, peppers, eggplant, basil, flowers, bread, baked goods, Mr. G’s Kettle Corn, locally made iced tea, Wind Chimes by Bruce.
Additional Information: www.facebook.com/BelknapFM
Miscellaneous
3.) Research!Louisville 2014 begins Tuesday
Sept. 16, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Kosair Charities Clinical and Translational Research Building
Free for faculty, staff, students
R!L 2014 kicks off with scientific poster competitions and seminars featuring Graduate Student Research and Dental and Medical Student Research Showcases and a morning seminar Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Symposium and wrapping up the day with a seminar Recovery and Repair After Spinal Cord Injury: KSCIRC Translational Research Spectrum. Mark your calendars! Hope to see you at the opening day of this four-day research event!
Additional Information: Website. Bonnie Dean, 852-2647.
4.) Research!Louisville 2014 Keynote Address is Sept. 19
Sept. 19, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Kosair Charities Clinical and Translational Research Building, 101/102
Free for faculty, staff, students
Stefano Bonassi, PhD, head of the unit of clinical and molecular epidemiology, IRCCS, Rome, Italy, will deliver the keynote address From Exposure Assessment to P4 Medicine. The control of Chronic Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) is among the most serious global health problems of the 21st century, causing severe morbidity and high mortality worldwide, while setting intolerable management needs in terms of healthcare systems sustainability. Learn more about systems medicine platforms.
Additional Information: Website. Bonnie Dean, 852-2647.
5.) Mary Woolley to discuss our role in changing hearts and minds for science
Sept. 18, 2 to 3 p.m., Kosair Charities Clinical and Translational Research Building 101/102
Free, faculty, staff, students
Mary Woolley, president and CEO of Research!America, will discuss the impact of a polarized Congress on federal health research agency budgets, share relevant public opinion poll data and provide insights on how to effectively communicate with the public, policymakers and the media in an election year.
Additional Information: Website. Bonnie Dean, 852-2647.
6.) Lunch and Learn: How to get better sleep
Sept. 30, noon to 12:30 p.m., Health Care Outpatient Center, Suite 120, Conference Center
Lunch: $5; listen only: free
Jay McGuire, manager and sleep technologist for the UofL Physicians – Sleep Center, shares how to get better sleep. RSVP by Sept. 24 to reserve lunch for $5. Listen only tickets are also available until the day of the event as space allows. Space is limited.
Additional Information: RSVP through Eventbrite.
7.) Death row exonoree to visit Brandeis School of Law
Sept. 25, 4:15 p.m. Brandeis School of Law, Room 275
Free
The Brandeis School of Law Chapter of the ACLU of Kentucky is hosting the ACLU Witness to Innocence and Death Row Exoneree Tour with speaker Gary Drinkard, who will discuss his six years on death row in Alabama for crimes he did not commit and the long fight to win back his freedom. This event is also sponsored by the ACLU of Kentucky.
Additional Information: Aaron Riggs.
Studies
8.) Pediatric constipation
The UofL Kosair Charities Pediatric Clinical Research Unit is conducting a clinical research study to assess the efficacy and safety of an investigational drug used to treat constipation. Children 6 to 17 years of age who have been diagnosed with functional constipation and are able to swallow capsules may be eligible to participate. Patients may be compensated for time/travel associated with their participation in the study. IRB# 14.0007
Additional Information: Jackie Perry, 629-5123, pager 620-0000.
Talks
9.) Chemistry seminar
Sept. 12, 4 p.m., Chemistry Building, Room LL-16
Free, public
Nathaniel Szymczak, PhD, department of chemistry, University of Michigan, will present Multifunctional Metal-Ligand Ensembles for Cooperative Substrate Activation.
Additional Information: Sherry Nalley, 852-6798.
Grand Rounds
10.) Pediatrics
Sept. 12, 8 a.m. Norton Hospital, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Please join us for the 40th Annual Dr. John I. Perlstein Memorial Lectureship featuring Penny Heaton, MD. Heaton is director of vaccine development in the Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. A graduate of the UofL School of Medicine, Heaton is board-certified in both pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases. She will be speaking about “Reducing Childhood Mortality Through Vaccination: Progress, Challenges and the Future.”
Additional Information: Brittney Luckett, 629-8828.
11.) Family and Geriatric Medicine
Sept. 12, 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Bottigheimer Auditorium
Nina Vasavada, MD, UofL assistant clinical professor, division of nephrology, presents Updates in Resistant Hypertension 2014. She will discuss the difference between uncontrolled and resistant hypertension and when one should consider evaluating for secondary causes of hypertension as well as review current investigational treatments for resistant hypertension.
Additional Information: Callie Booth.
12.) Orthopaedic Surgery
Sept. 12, 6:45 to 7:45 a.m., Baxter I Research Building, auditorium, lower level
Please join us as we welcome R. Todd Hockenbury, MD, UofL assistant clinical professor. Dr. Hockenbury will lecture on Care of the Diabetic Foot.
Additional Information: Monica Welsh, 852-6902.
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