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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Feb. 20, 2015:
· PHOTOS: 2015 Ms. Cardinal Erin Yenney and Mr. Cardinal Benjamin Hota. View here.
· Faculty Senate Overview for February, 2015. Read more.
· Staff Senate Overview for February, 2015. Read more.
· UofL joins Yelp for crash course showcasing campus. Read more.
· Literature-culture conference features authors in free keynote sessions. Read more.
· Social work faculty member to lead Institute for Sustainable Health and Optimal Aging. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
UofL senior swimmer Tanja Kylliainen took the gold in the 200 Individual Medley at the 2015 ACC Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships last week at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. That makes her the first ACC individual champion in any sport at UofL! Her school-record time was 1:55.72, and she credited her feat to four years of training and sacrifice. Read more.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Health and Wellness
1.) GHN Healthy Hearts Road Show offers free blood pressure screenings
Miscellaneous
2.) Ky. Lt. Governor Crit Luallen encourages you to wear blue March 6
3.) Free UofL Autism Center workshop for families offered
4.) PLAN hosts workshop on writing a literature review
5.) Deadline is March 2 for Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
6.) Faculty: Hear how one instructor learned to stop worrying and love social media
7.) A.C.E.S. KY: Black and Latino student symposium is Feb. 26
8.) UofL Kentucky Author Forum tickets are available
Summer Camps
9.) Jeff Walz presents: Summer Basketball Camp 2015
Seminars
10.) Biochemistry
Talks
11.) Governing by Lottery: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Health and Wellness
1.) GHN Healthy Hearts Road Show offers free blood pressure screenings
HSC: Feb. 25, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at City Café; Belknap: Feb. 26, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at University Club; Shelby: Feb. 27, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Burhans Hall, room 157
UofL employees free
Get Healthy Now is partnering with the American Heart Association, City Café, and Sodexo in the fight against heart disease. In support of National Heart Month, we are offering free blood pressure checks, a City Café smoothie station, stress balls, health tips, heart healthy recipes and Sodexo fruit for your campus. Each screening takes less than 2 minutes. Giveaways and prizes for participation. Grab a colleague and come join us! You may be the lucky one who walks away with a Fitbit!
Additional Information: Website; ghn@louisville.edu; 852-7755.
Miscellaneous
2.) Ky. Lt. Governor Crit Luallen encourages you to wear blue March 6
Please join colon cancer survivor Lt. Governor Crit Luallen and the Kentucky Cancer Program for Dress in Blue Day on March 6 to kick off National Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Kentucky still has one of the highest mortality rates of colon cancer in the country. The good news is the disease can be prevented and successfully treated if detected early. View Crit Luallen’s message here.
Additional Information: Jaime Wientjes; 852-6318.
3.) Free UofL Autism Center workshop for families offered
Feb. 25, 4 to 6 p.m., University of Louisville Autism Center,1405 E Burnett Ave.
Emily Kirkham will discuss the programs and supports available through the Council on Developmental Disabilities. She will also provide a brief overview of transition within the public school system. Emily serves as the director of educational outcomes at the Council on Developmental Disabilities, adjunct professor at UofL and as a behavior specialist for Down Syndrome of Louisville.
Additional Information: Call Paddy DeGeorge to register, 588-0736. Website.
4.) PLAN hosts workshop on writing a literature review
Feb. 24, 3 to 4 p.m., Ekstrom Library, Room W-210
The literature review is one of the most common genres of scholarly writing, yet one that can be frustrating if you’re not used to producing it. In this workshop, we will cover the purpose the literature review serves in scholarly writing, some of the important conventions of the genre, and strategies for how to approach writing the strongest literature review possible. Graduate students interested in attending can register and find more information on the PLAN website.
Additional Information: Calendar Event Page.
5.) Deadline is March 2 for Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
The SROP provides UofL undergraduate students who would like to know more about graduate-level education at the university with a 10-week research-intensive experience in a department that offers graduate degrees. Mentors will provide students with individualized research projects. All UofL departments with graduate programs will be supported. Students should be, preferably, in their sophomore or junior year of study. The deadline is March 2.
Additional Information: pwfeld01@louisville.edu; website.
6.) Faculty: Hear how one instructor learned to stop worrying and love social media
Feb. 24, noon to 2 p.m., Delphi Center (Ekstrom Library #244)
Join us as Karen Freberg from the department of communication shares the whys and ways of her adventures with integrating social media into her classes. In the session, you will hear the benefits and challenges of using social media in the classroom, consider how to forefront your teaching goals, see examples of the use of social media for teaching and learning, and suggest how you might use social media in your own courses. Lunch is served so pre-registration is required.
Additional Information: Learn more and register.
7.) A.C.E.S. KY: Black and Latino student symposium is Feb. 26
Feb. 26, 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Student Activities Center, Floyd Theater
Free
A pre-conference event to the Black Family Conference, the symposium highlights keynote speakers Mistalene Calleroz White, dean of academic support services at Spalding University at 9:30 a.m. in the Floyd Theater, and Terrell Strayhorn, PhD, director for higher education enterprise and professor of education and human ecology at Ohio State at 12:30 p.m. in SAC Multipurpose Room. There are additional concurrent sessions with outstanding speakers from across Kentucky.
Additional Information: Website. Register at attend.com/2015ACES; Tomarra Adams; 852-3077.
8.) UofL Kentucky Author Forum tickets are available
March 24, 8 p.m., The Kentucky Center
$20, includes pre-talk events; $110 includes all events plus dinner
The UofL Kentucky Author Forum will feature David Boies, author of “Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality.” Boies, who was co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in Perry v. Brown, establishing the constitutional right to marry for gay and lesbian citizens in California, will be interviewed by CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin. For tickets, call The Kentucky Center at 584-7777 or visit www.kentuckycenter.org.
Summer Camps
9.) Jeff Walz presents: Summer Basketball Camp 2015
June 15-18, Cardinal Arena and SRC, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$225 – UL Staff Discount
Join Coach Walz and Louisville women’s basketball players in skill instruction, drills, games, activities and fun while playing basketball. Cost includes lunch and camp t-shirt. 3rd to 8th grade students. UofL employees receive $25 discount (normally $250). Space is limited so register today. Camp is open to any and all.
Additional Information: Please contact Kate Matthews, 852.8355, for more information. Register online here.
Seminars
10.) Biochemistry
Feb. 23, noon, Homberger Library, HSC-A, Room 614
Sujita Khanal, BMB graduate student: “Current Insights Into HPV Integration-Driven Carcinogenesis.”
Additional Information: janice.burkett@louisville.edu.
Talks
11.) Governing by Lottery: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
Feb. 25, 6 p.m., Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium
Free
In this McConnell Center Talk, Alexander Guerroro, PhD, JD, a philosophy professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will ask whether common complaints about American government could be fixed with a move to a system in which decision-makers were chosen by lot rather than election. This is the sixth of nine events in the McConnell Center’s “Debating America” lecture series.
Additional Information: UofL Today story.
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