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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Oct. 16, 2014:
· VIDEO: The UofL Alumni Association honored its distinguished graduates Thursday night at the 32nd annual Alumni Awards celebration. Watch these videos of the award winners and see why they were honored.
· Faculty Notables September / October 2014. Read more.
· UofL named Military Friendly School for 6th consecutive year. Read more.
· Free recycling, fair set for Sustainability Day. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Tommy Arnold is the founder of the fundraising dinner “Feast on Equality,” which began two years ago to raise money for UofL’s LGBT Center. The event raised $86,000 in its first year for the center, which is using the funds for support, innovative programming and to train student leaders. Tommy has been named one of four “New Faces of Philanthropy 2014” by The Community Foundation of Louisville and NFOCUS magazine, and if he gets the most supporters at a UClub party in his honor Oct. 29, the LGBT Center will receive $2,000 to support its work. Purchase tickets ($25) to the party here, and as a bonus, vote for Tommy here once every day to help the Center win an ad to promote this year’s Nov. 21 Feast on Equality.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Today
1.) Earn the rewards of good health with Get Healthy Now
2.) Homecoming Parade traffic alert: parking and closures
3.) Walk with Get Healthy Now and show your school spirit in the Homecoming Parade
4.) Theatre Arts hosts Fo Project Informational gala
Miscellaneous
5.) Call for summer camp information
6.) Watch the partial solar eclipse
Seminars
7.) Biochemistry
8.) Oral Biology 605: Oral Health Seminar
Talks
9.) Women and Children at the Border: The Humanitarian Crisis
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Today
1.) Earn the rewards of good health with Get Healthy Now
Today is the start of 2015 Open Enrollment. Benefits elections must be made between Oct. 17 and Oct. 31. To enroll in Get Healthy Now (GHN) and earn the $40 monthly premium incentive in 2015, you must complete a new Health Risk Assessment between Oct. 17-Nov. 17, 2014. If you waive UofL’s health insurance, you can still participate in GHN. All employees/retirees and their spouse/QA have the opportunity to participate in Get Healthy Now.
2.) Homecoming Parade traffic alert: parking and closures
Oct. 17, times noted below; parade begins at 6 p.m.
Kurz Hall parking lot is closed all day; Speed School blue parking lot is restricted after 5:30 p.m. Street closures are scheduled from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. as follows: 3rd Street from Bloom Street to Winkler Avenue; Cardinal Blvd. from 4th Street to 2nd Street; Eastern Parkway from 3rd Street to Hahn Street. For parade parking, spectators without a UofL Belknap parking pass are welcome to park at one of the following areas free of charge: 3rd Street Staff Lot (adjacent to PNC Bank at 1900 S. Third St.); Back of the Chevron Lot; 3rd Street parking lot, directly south of Eastern Parkway; Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium Bronze Lots D, E, and J and Platinum Lot S. TARC routes #90 and #94 will be detoured to 4th Street while 3rd Street is closed.
3.) Walk with Get Healthy Now and show your school spirit in the Homecoming Parade
Oct. 17, meet 5 p.m. Kurz Hall parking lot
Join Get Healthy Now in the “Welcome bACC” Homecoming Parade starting at Cardinal Boulevard and 3rd Street. Parade walkers meet at Kurz Hall parking lot by 5 p.m. Colleagues and community members welcome. Kids, too! All those who walk with us will be given a Get Healthy Now t-shirt. BONUS: One lucky participant will earn this week’s Fitbit giveaway! Earn up to 5,000 steps by walking with Get Healthy Now: 4,000 steps for the parade walk, add 1,000 steps for checking out floats, and bonus steps for dolling out high-fives to President Ramsey and Louie the Cardinal!
Additional Information: Stephanie Weldy, 852-6549.
4.) Theatre Arts hosts Fo Project Informational gala
Oct. 17, 7 to 9 p.m., Bigelow Hall, Miller IT Center
Free
UofL Theatre Arts students and faculty have been invited to join the world premiere cast of Dario Fo’s new play, “Qu,” debuting at the 2015 International Expo in Milan, Italy. The Fo Project Informational Gala will feature performances inspired by their work in Italy, an informational showcase, a storytelling workshop, a screening of documentary footage about the project and food from Selena’s Willow Lake Tavern. Help us make this opportunity possible! Visit foproject.com to learn more.
Additional Information: Erin Crites, 852-8447.
Miscellaneous
5.) Call for summer camp information
Will your unit host summer camps for school-aged kids? We want to know so that we can promote them online and in a special pull-out section of the winter/spring issue of UofL Magazine. To list your camps, please complete the form available here. Deadline for inclusion in the magazine is Oct. 31.
Additional Information: Mark Holdener, 852-2264.
6.) Watch the partial solar eclipse
Oct. 23, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium
Free
UofL staff and faculty can observe the solar eclipse at the planetarium. Before you go home, join us at 5:30 to get a quick view of the partial eclipse through a solar telescope and chat with members of the Louisville Astronomical Society. Then go into the theater for a virtual tour of our life-sustaining star and learn more about the major role the small chunk of rock, our moon, plays in the drama.
Additional Information: planet@louisville.edu, 852-6665; Website.
Seminars
7.) Biochemistry
Oct. 20, noon, Homberger Library, HSC-A, 614
Ginger Milne, PhD, associate professor, clinical pharmacology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, will present “Free Radical Induced Lipid Peroxidation in vivo: Detection of Oxylipids and Relevance in Disease.”
Additional Information: Janice Ellwanger.
8.) Oral Biology 605: Oral Health Seminar
Oct. 17, noon to 1 p.m., Dental School, Room 119
Free
Xiang Zhang, professor, Department of Chemistry, will deliver a seminar, “Metabolomics Program at the CREAM Center.”
Additional Information: g0buon01@louisville.edu.
Talks
9.) Women and Children at the Border: The Humanitarian Crisis
12 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Oct. 28 Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, Room 275
Free
The Louisville Bar Foundation/Greenebaum Human Rights Fellows present a discussion covering the: causes of the crisis, medical and psychological issues facing these immigrants, possible legal remedies available, and ways for students to become involved within the community. Panelists are Congressman John Yarmuth, Immigration attorney- Sarah Mills, Nima Kulkarni, Jonathan Ruckman, James Guinn, and two student-fellows, Janet A. Lewis and Katherine E. Hall. Lunch will be provided.
Additional Information: Janet A. Lewis, Katherine E. Hall.
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