Campus-Submitted Announcements
Events
1.) Louisville Solar Tour
2.) Louisville Association for the Deaf Breakfast Benefit for UofL
3.) St. James Art Show to affect Belknap area streets Oct. 3 – 6
Grand Rounds
4.) Pediatrics
Miscellaneous
5.) Clothing Exchange Project for Children
Talks
6.) A Bacterial Effector Links Host Proteasomal Degradation to Microbial Nutrition
7.) The 12th Annual Latin American and Latino Studies Heritage Lecture
8.) Biology Department Fall 2013 Seminar Series
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Events
1.) Louisville Solar Tour
10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Sept. 28 Various sites, including Ernst Hall Room 300
Free; bus tour: $15
Want to catch a glimpse of our renewable energy future at work on area homes and buildings? Come learn how solar power is a practical alternative available to all of us today. UofL’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research is hosting one of dozens of tour sites along with UofL employees and students who live in solar-powered homes. We’ll open our doors to you throughout the day. Stop in at a wide variety of solar-powered buildings on your own or as part of a group bus tour or bike tour.
Additional Information: Louisville Solar Tour
2.) Louisville Association for the Deaf Breakfast Benefit for UofL
9:30 a.m. – noon Oct. 19 Red Barn, Belknap Campus
$6
Breakfast to benefit the Norma Lewis Scholarships in ASL Translating and Disability Services at UofL. $6 covers an all-you-can-eat breakfast: homemade eggs, biscuits and gravy, sausage, pastry, fruit and more.
Additional Information: Lou Goings
3.) St. James Art Show to affect Belknap area streets Oct. 3 – 6
Oct. 3 – Oct. 6
The Louisville Metro Police Department has posted a list of streets that will be closed because of the St. James Art Show. See it here.
Grand Rounds
4.) Pediatrics
8 a.m. Sept. 27 Norton Hospital, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Today, please join us for a pediatric grand rounds featuring Regina Jakacki, MD. Jakacki is professor of pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She will present “Treatment of Childhood Brain Tumors: Trying to Regain Control Without Losing More in the Process.” We hope to see you there.
Additional Information: Brittney Luckett, 502-629-8828
Miscellaneous
5.) Clothing Exchange Project for Children
Sept. 30 – Oct. 31 UofL Women’s Center
The UofL Women’s Center is collecting new or gently used infant and children’s clothing (including shoes, toys, new bags of disposable diapers). This project is sponsored by the Women’s Center Student-Parent Association/Moms Support Group. There will also be a special collection of items for women veterans who are homeless. (For a list of items, email Phyllis M. Webb.)
Additional Information: Bring items to the Women’s Center. Send an email or call 852-8976 for a list of all drop-off locations on Belknap Campus and at the Health Sciences Center.
Talks
6.) A Bacterial Effector Links Host Proteasomal Degradation to Microbial Nutrition
Noon – 1 p.m. Sept. 27 Room 125, School of Dentistry
Free
Oral Biology 605,Oral Health Seminar: Yousef Abu Kwaik, professor, Bumgardner Chair in Molecular Pathogenesis, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UofL.
Additional Information: g0buon01@louisville.edu
7.) The 12th Annual Latin American and Latino Studies Heritage Lecture
4:30 p.m. – 5:30pm Oct. 2 Elaine Chao Auditorium
Free
This informative presentation is titled “Reforming Immigration, Re-Forming Place and Race: Latin America, the American South, New Connections,” presented by Jamie Winders, associate professor of geography in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Co-Sponsors: The Department of Geography and Geosciences; The Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research; The Peace, Justice & Conflict Transformation Program; and The Latin American and Latino Studies Program.
Additional Information: Rhonda Buchanan, 852-2034, Latin American and Latino Studies.
8.) Biology Department Fall 2013 Seminar Series
Noon Sept. 27 Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
free
Kyung Kang, professor, chemical engineering, and Claudio Maldonado, associate professor, physiology, will present “Investigating a novel ‘system’ in the human body; in addition to the circulatory and lymph systems.”
Additional Information: Terri Norris, 852-2573
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