Campus-Submitted Announcements
Events
1.) Graduate Day at the Downs
Health and Wellness
2.) Grand Opening for GHN Wellness Center at Humana Gym today
Miscellaneous
3.) New grant opportunity
4.) Last Call — HSC Showcase call for proposals
5.) Focus Group — PLAN website design
6.) Researcher notification
7.) iTech Xpress offers book on 2012-13 men’s basketball season
8.) Gold Standard Award for Optimal Aging
Talks
9.) Mathematics Colloquium
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Events
1.) Graduate Day at the Downs
11 a.m. May 9, Churchill Downs, 600 Central Ave.
Free for graduate student and one guest; $5 each additional
Graduate students—dress in your Derby best and come celebrate the end of the semester with live horse racing at Churchill Downs. Graduate students can register themselves and one guest for free admission; register additional friends and family for $5 per person. See you at the races.
Additional Information: Registration through the Alumni Association.
Health and Wellness
2.) Grand Opening for GHN Wellness Center at Humana Gym today
8:30 a.m. April 19, Humana Gym (601 Presidents Blvd.)
Free
Come celebrate the Grand Opening of the new Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym. Inaugural ceremony begins at 8:30 a.m., followed by an all-day event featuring facility tours, equipment and fitness demonstrations, door prizes and healthy fare from the University Club (11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.). A shuttle will run from two locations on Belknap Campus and from the Health Sciences Center. Join us. Your best self starts here.
Additional Information: Shuttle details: Directions. More information.
Miscellaneous
3.) New grant opportunity
Passport Health Plan has announced a sixth cycle of funding for the research and demonstration projects initiative titled Improved Health Outcomes Program (iHOP). The iHOP Cycle VI program is seeking proposals from groups and individuals for initiatives that improve quality, access, efficiency and cost of health care for Medicaid recipients and uninsured individuals in the 16 counties the plan serves. Letters of intent must be received by May 15.
Additional Information: iHOP Cycle VI
4.) Last Call — HSC Showcase call for proposals
Proposals due April 24; Event date July 25
Are you integrating technology in your teaching to enhance students’ learning? Could your HSC faculty colleagues benefit from learning about what you are doing? Share your success with your peers during an informal “show and tell” presentation at the new HSC Showcase: Technology “Speed Dating” for Faculty. Proposals are sought for “show and tell” presentations. Sponsored by the HSC-Delphi Faculty Development Partnership.
Additional Information: HSC showcase
5.) Focus Group — PLAN website design
Noon May 8, Room 105, Houchens Building
PLAN will be redesigning our website to better meet the needs of graduate students. Share your insights and experiences with our current web design to help us develop a more effective platform for connecting you to resources, events, and other graduate students at UofL. Lunch will be provided to registrants.
Additional Information: PLAN
6.) Researcher notification
During emergencies, laboratories may lose power or be adversely impacted in some other way. If you work in a laboratory and wish to be notified of any lab buildings that are affected, you can sign up for a free notification. Principal investigators and other research staff can take advantage of this notification system by enrolling here.
Additional Information: Dennis Sullivan, DEHS, 852-2948
7.) iTech Xpress offers book on 2012-13 men’s basketball season
Attention UofL basketball fans. A new book, “Unbreakable,” highlights the 2012-13 Cardinal men’s basketball season all the way to the NCAA National Championship victory. Written, photographed and produced entirely by the Louisville Cardinal staff, “Unbreakable” includes a bonus section on the women’s run to the Final Four. The book is now available for $14.95 at iTech Xpress, located on the lower level of Miller IT Center.
Additional Information: iTech Xpress, 852-4943
8.) Gold Standard Award for Optimal Aging
Who inspires you to anticipate later life with confidence & joy? Do you know someone age 85 or older making the most of their later years, continuing to love life and, despite constraints, continuing to engage? UofL Geriatrics is accepting nominations for the Gold Standard Award for Optimal Aging. Nominations may be made online. The award will be presented at luncheon 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, 830 Phillips Lane.
Additional Information: Margaret Feldman, 588-4260, or go online.
Talks
9.) Mathematics Colloquium
1 p.m. April 19, Room 212D Natural Sciences Building
Free
Dustin Moody from National Institute of Standards and Technology will speak about Isogenies, Volcanoes, and Edwards Curves. Isogeny volcanoes, connected components of a larger graph, are an interesting structure that have had several recent applications in cryptography. Moody will explore properties of and how to compute volcanoes. He will also introduce new formulas for computing isogenies on Edwards curves, which are a new model for elliptic curves, different than the Weierstrass model.
Additional Information: Daniel Smith
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