Arts & Sciences

Arts & Sciences

Author Jennifer Egan

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist among featured speakers at UofL literature conference

The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, scheduled online and in-person Feb. 20-25, is marking its 50th year at the University of...

Getting out of class Engaged learning experiences support student success

On a sunny afternoon Cala Salah is up to her elbows in the dirt. Far removed from textbooks, dry erase boards and computers, Salah,...
Alexa Grace Brunson

Dual credits a key to this December graduate’s degree

Alexa Grace Brunson arrived at the University of Louisville in the fall of 2021, a graduate of the prestigious Craft Academy for Excellence in Science...
Afi Tagnedji, Quad Fellowship recipient

UofL senior wins inaugural international STEM fellowship

Afi Tagnedji, a University of Louisville senior majoring in biochemistry, is among an elite group of international science, technology, engineering and mathematics students awarded...
Elliott Grantz '20 works as a partnerships officer for the United Nations World Food Programme.

Sustaining a global focus, UofL alumna aids world food effort

Elliott Grantz was excited to parlay her love of international relations and her newly earned 2020 sustainability degree into the Washington, D.C., job she...
Olivia Yeager

UofL helps December grad break the poverty cycle

Olivia Yeager decorated two caps for her trip across the commencement stage Dec. 16 to receive her bachelor’s of science degree in sociology.   One is...
composite of two head shots of Dunning and Kruger

Unskilled people often overrate themselves, say psychology prize winners

Are you as good at doing things as you think you are? Maybe not, according to David Dunning and Justin Kruger, two social psychologists who...
head shot of Steven Feldstein

Digital technology is aiding political repression, warns world order prize winner

Digital technology is playing a growing role in advancing political repression across the globe, a trend that poses a threat to the world’s democracies,...
Psychological well-being corresponds to lower heart disease risk factors according to UofL study. Photo by August de Richelieu via Pexels.com

UofL researchers find link between mental well-being and heart disease risk

A study at the University of Louisville found that overall psychological well-being corresponds to lower risk factors for heart disease. Researchers in UofL’s Christina Lee...
Pawel Lorkiewicz, assistant professor of chemistry and a researcher in the UofL Superfund Research Center, established methods for detecting and quantifying urinary metabolites of VOCs which are used in the human and wastewater studies for VOC exposure.

UofL Superfund Research Center receives $10.8 million to expand studies into effects of environmental...

The University of Louisville has been awarded $10.8 million in renewed funding for the UofL Superfund Research Center, part of the Christina Lee Brown...