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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Tuesday, March 1 2016:
· UofL cleanroom is key for hearing device entrepreneur. Read more.
· UofL School of Medicine Dean Ganzel to chair Kentuckiana Heart Walk. Read more.
· UofL named Tree Campus USA six years running. Read more.
· Heartless Bastards to play Live Lunch at Red Barn. Read more.
· Photos: The 43rd annual Dr. Joseph H. McMillan National Conference on the Black Family in America, Feb. 26-27. View here.
· Photos: The MFA Portland Studios Kick Off event, Feb. 25. View here.
· Photos: RaiseRed surpassed its fundraising goal, bringing in more than $322,000. View here.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Students have tapped sugar maples on Belknap Campus and plan to produce a batch of UofL maple syrup. The syrup will be served at a Pancake Party April 15. More information about the event is available on the University of Louisville EcoReps Facebook page.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Health and Wellness
1.) Warm up with GHN’s R.I.P.P.E.D.
Miscellaneous
2.) Program: How a woman’s fashion choices affect her success
3.) EndNote classes available for the spring semester
4.) UofL is going blue this Friday for a good cause
5.) Want more about Celebration of Teaching keynote ideas?
Talks/Seminars/Symposiums
6.) Microbiology and Immunology seminar on pregnancy-associated breast cancer
7.) Late Winter Epilepsy Symposium covers advances in diagnosis and treatment
Awards
8.) President’s Distinguished Faculty Awards nominations due Friday
Grand Rounds
9.) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Grand Rounds
10.) Sciences Grand Rounds
11.) Medicine Grand Rounds: Dr. David Nunley
12.) Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
1.) Warm up with GHN’s R.I.P.P.E.D.
Mondays, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym
Free for employees, retirees and their spouses/QAs
Get in shape with GHN’s R.I.P.P.E.D. group fitness class, a high intensity class that uses a combination of free weight, body weight and resistance training. Suitable for all fitness levels.
Additional Information: Facebook page, website, email, 852-7755
Miscellaneous
2.) Program: How a woman’s fashion choices affect her success
March 7, 6 to 8 p.m., Frazier History Museum, 829 West Main Street
$5
Miss America 2000, Heather French Henry, and Professor Jennie Woodward will discuss how a woman’s fashion choices affect her success in politics and business. Professor Woodward teaches Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Maine. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Amanda Higgins, Kentucky Historical Society. This event is co-sponsored by the Frazier History Museum and the Kentucky Historical Society, members of A&S’s Center for Arts and Culture Partnerships.
Additional Information: Email
3.) EndNote Cclasses available for the spring semester
March 10, 3 to 4:30 p.m., History Room, Kornhauser Health Sciences Library, HSC
Free to UofL Community
Also, the spring semester 2016 class schedule introduction to Endnote is April 6, 10 to 11:30 a.m. and the Introduction to Endnote is May 11, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Additional Information: RSVP to John Chenault, 852-3901
4.) UofL is going blue this Friday for a good cause
March 4
President Ramsey asks you to join the Kentucky Cancer Program and UofL by going BLUE this Friday, March 4th for National Dress in Blue Day for colon cancer awareness. See his message here. Send us your blue photos for a chance to win $250. Photos can be taken this Friday, or anytime in March. For more contest details, visit the website below.
Additional Information: Jaime Wientjes, 852-6318, website
5.) Want more about Celebration of Teaching keynote ideas?
March 3, March 10, March 24, March 31, 9 to 10 a.m., Delphi Center (Ekstrom Library #244)
Join us as we discuss 2016 Celebration of Teaching and Learning keynote speaker José Antonio Bowen’s book Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning on Thursday mornings throughout March. The first 10 faculty to register will receive a free copy of the book.
Additional Information: Register online
Talks/Seminars/Symposiums
6.) Microbiology and Immunology seminar on pregnancy-associated breast cancer
March 3, noon to 1 p.m., Clinical Translational Research Building, Room 124
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series presents, “Mechanisms Driving Pregnancy Associated Breast Cancer,” by Edward Sauter, MD, PhD, professor, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler.
Additional Information: Carolyn Burton, 852-6208.
7.) Late Winter Epilepsy Symposium covers advances in diagnosis and treatment
March 12, 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Bottigheimer Auditorium, 1st Floor, Jewish Hospital
$15 after March 1
This continuing medical education course will cover various topics related to the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. Specific areas covered will include GABA Receptors and Epilepsy, Sleep and Epilepsy, Nonepileptic Seizures, Current Management of Refractory Epilepsy and What’s New for Kids? (an update in epilepsy management for children). Didactic information will be given by faculty in both adult and pediatric epilepsy. A panel discussion will occur during the break.
Additional Information: Emily Rollins, 407-3226, website
Awards
8.) President’s Distinguished Faculty Awards nominations due Friday
Nominations for the 2016 Distinguished Faculty Awards are due at the school/college level on Friday, March 4. The annual awards honor faculty who bring distinction to UofL through their commitment to service, teaching, outstanding scholarship, research and creative activity. Each school’s unit committee needs to submit their unit’s nomination materials to the Office of the President by April 13. The guidelines are located in the link below.
Additional Information: Website
Grand Rounds
9.) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Grand Rounds
March 2, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Bingham Clinic conference room, 2nd floor of Norton Hospital
Free
Bibhuti Sar, MSW, PhD, Professor and Director of Doctoral Program for the Kent School of Social Work, and Jennifer Bobo, LCSW, Project Director/Part-time Faculty for The Center for Promoting Recovery and Resilience for Traumatized Children and Youth at the Kent School of Social Work, UofL, will present Trauma Informed Care: Strategies and Challenges.
Additional Information: Jan Schoen
10.) Sciences Grand Rounds
March 3, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., ACB Auditorium
Free
Dr. Sufian Ahmad, a PGY-4 resident with the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville, will present, Treating Agitation in the Elderly. The participants will be able to identify causes of agitation in the elderly, identify non-pharmacological interventions to treat agitation in the elderly, determine how to choose a medicine to treat agitation when indicated, and proper use of seclusion and restraints.
Additional Information: Miranda Sloan
11.) Medicine Grand Rounds: Dr. David Nunley
March 3, 8 a.m., Ambulatory Care Building auditorium
Medicine Grand Rounds features David R. Nunley, MD, FCCP, FCCM, Professor of Medicine and Clinical Director, Lung Transplant Program at UofL. Dr. Nunley will present Second Wind: Lung Transplantation in the 21st Century focusing on which patients qualify for transplantation, how donor lungs are allocated in the United States and the process of organ retrieval, and the challenges encountered following transplantation.
Additional Information: Jason Puckett, 852-1825
12.) Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds
March 2, noon to 1 p.m., Jewish Hospital, Rudd, Heart and Lung Center, 16th floor, CC, Great Halls I & II
Please join us as we welcome Andre Terzic, MD, PhD, who will present “Regenerative Medicine Build-Out.” Sharing current regenerative medicine trends along with examples of discovery-translation application and a blueprint of regenerative medicine rollout will be illustrated. Dr. Terzic is a professor in Cardiovascular Diseases; Director of Comprehensive Cardiac Regenerative Medicine & Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Additional Information: Website, Monica Sivori, 852-1162
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