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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Dec. 8, 2015:
· Sarah Nuñez, College of Business acknowledged for work with Hispanic/Latino students. Read more.
· Holiday safety tips from UofL Police. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Ekstrom Library is home to the Oral History Center, which holds more than 2,000 interviews dating from 1968 to the present. The interviews help document the history of UofL and the greater Louisville area.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
From the President
1.) President’s Holiday Open House is Friday
Health and Wellness
2.) Indoor Cycling classes added
3.) Make a splash with Get Healthy Now water fitness
Miscellaneous
4.) Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) prospective student sessions scheduled
5.) Bioethics discussion group
Talks/Seminars
6.) Poxviruses: Beyond smallpox, zoonotic emerging infections, research and applications
7.) Microbiology and Immunology seminar
Grand Rounds
8.) Psychiatry: Diagnosing and Managing Depressive Episodes in the DSM-V Era
9.) Medicine: Dr. Craig McClain
10.) Cardiovascular Medicine
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
From the President
1.) President’s Holiday Open House is Friday
Dec. 11, 3 to 5 p.m., Grawemeyer Hall
Free
President and Mrs. James R. Ramsey cordially invite you to a holiday open house with refreshments and choral music by students from the School of Music. Parking will be available behind the Speed School on Eastern Parkway.
Additional Information: julie.kroger@louisville.edu
Health and Wellness
2.) Indoor Cycling classes added
Mondays & Wednesdays: 6:30-7:00 am; 5:30 – 6:15 p.m., Friday 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.; Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym
Free for GHN Wellness Center members
Ride with your GHN friends with InCycle and InCycle Express: Jump on one of our bikes and start peddling! Our certified instructors will lead you through a challenging series of courses to maximize your caloric burn, but you control your own resistance and speed allowing you to continuously progress forward from your current fitness level. These classes provide a great cardio workout while supporting participants of all fitness levels. New class time offered this month for the early birds!
Additional Information: Group fitness schedule; website; email ghn@louisville.edu.
3.) Make a splash with Get Healthy Now water fitness
Spring session: Jan. 12 – April. 21 (No class March 15-17), 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 for the 2016 spring 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.
4.) Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) prospective student sessions scheduled
Dec. 16, 5 to 6:45 p.m., Room 114, Oppenheimer Hall
Are you interested in a profession improving the quality of life for individuals, families and communities? Come find out if the versatile Master of Science in Social Work is the right graduate program for you and your professional development. There are two sessions next week: Tues., Dec. 15 from noon-1 p.m., and Wed. Dec. 16 from 5 to 6:45 p.m. These are the last sessions of the fall semester! Check the sign-up form or email to reserve your spot!
Additional Information: Sarah Caragianis msswkent@louisville.edu.
5.) Bioethics discussion group
Dec. 11, 4 to 5 p.m., Wall Street Deli, Jewish Hospital Outpatient Building, 224 Abraham Flexner Way
Free
Join us for a rare opportunity for faculty, students and community members from all backgrounds to discuss and learn from current medical ethics cases with the providers involved. Each month we’ll discuss the process behind making life changing decisions with all the messy complexity of real life situations and you can contribute to the outcomes! If you teach a class relevant to making difficult decisions please bring your students to participate. Light refreshments provided.
Additional Information: Andrea Sinclair, 852-6501.
6.) Poxviruses: Beyond smallpox, zoonotic emerging infections, research and applications
Dec. 9, 10:15 to 11:15 a.m., CTR 124
Free
The Center for Predictive Medicine and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation present a special seminar by Kevin L. Karem, PhD, Associate Director for Laboratory Science Center for Global Health, CDC, Atlanta.
Additional Information: Cathy St. Clair, 852-5596.
7.) Microbiology and Immunology seminar
Dec. 10, noon to 1 p.m., Clinical Translational Research Building, Room 101
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series presents, “The Role of AMPK in MIF-Mediated Immune Suppression,” by Ashley Wise, PhD candidate in the lab of Robert Mitchell, PhD.
Additional Information: Carolyn Burton, 852-6208.
Grand Rounds
8.) Psychiatry: Diagnosing and Managing Depressive Episodes in the DSM-V Era
Dec. 10, 11:30 to 1 p.m., ACB Auditorium
Free
Dr. Robert Post, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University will be presenting Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 10. Participants will be able to integrate mechanisms for distinguishing unipolar and bipolar depression into the diagnosis of patients with depressive symptoms, incorporate appropriate use of current evidence-based treatments for depression with manic and hypomanic symptoms and translate the available evidence for the appropriate management.
Additional Information: Miranda Sloan.
9.) Medicine: Dr. Craig McClain
Dec. 10, 8 a.m., Ambulatory Care Building auditorium
Medicine Grand Rounds features Craig J. McClain, MD, Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Chief of Research Affairs, UofL Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Dr. McClain will present Alcoholic Liver Disease: Bench to Bedside to Bench focusing on the spectrum of alcoholic liver disease, the presenting features of alcoholic hepatitis, the mechanisms for alcoholic liver disease, and treatment options for different stages of alcoholic liver disease.
Additional Information: Jason Puckett, 852-1825.
10.) Cardiovascular Medicine
Dec. 9, noon – 1 p.m., NOTE CHANGE: Jewish Hospital, FIXED AUDITORIUM (near Bottigheimer on 1st floor)
Please join us as we welcome Rajakrishnan Vijayakrishnan, MD, assistant professor, Heart Failure, Transplant and Mechanical Support Program – Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Louisville. Dr. Vijaykrishnan will present “Antibody Mediated Rejection in Heart Transplantation.”
Additional Information: Monica Sivori, 852-1162, http://louisville.edu/medicine/cmgr
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