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Here’s what was posted to UofLNews on Monday, April 11, 2016:
- Artful Teaching: CEHD team builds arts-based approach for Holocaust education. Read more.
- Former pageant winner, state rep. candidate awarded UofL’s highest honor for doctoral students. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
University of Louisville graduate and philanthropist Charles Grawemeyer created the Grawemeyer Awards program in 1984 to pay tribute to the power of creative thought and emphasize the impact a single idea can have on the world. The Grawemeyer Award in Education was established in 1988, with the first winner, Bertrand Schwartz, named the following year.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Health and Wellness
1.) Get Healthy Now offers mindfulness programs
Miscellaneous
2.) Open discussions planned with Provost candidate Neville Pinto
Talks/Seminars/Symposiums
3.) University-wide undergrad research and creative activity symposium set
4.) Seminars in Neuroscience Series hosting Case Western professor
5.) Global Humanities Lecture: Sherlock Holmes and the War on Terror
6.) Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series: ‘The Long Shadow’
7.) Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series: The Locust Effect – Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
8.) Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series: About Time in ‘let me tell you’
9.) Grawemeyer Lecture in Religion: ‘Religion in Health Care: A Tale of Two Maps’
10.) Dept. of Physiology, Cardiovascular Innovation Institute present Distinguished Lecture
11.) Microbiology and Immunology doctoral defense
12.) Pharmacology and Toxicology Seminar today
Awards
13.) Seeking nominations for Outstanding Community Engagement Awards
Studies
14.) Paid volunteers wanted for UofL Caregiver Stress Study
15.) Volunteers needed for Dissertation Study
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Health and Wellness
1.) Get Healthy Now offers mindfulness programs
Every Tuesday, drop in 5:30-5:55 p.m., Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym 601 Presidents Blvd.
Experience Get Healthy Now’s mindfulness offerings in collaboration with Dr. Paul Salmon, associate professor in psychological and brain sciences. Experience the many health-enhancing benefits of reflection, stillness and being fully present. Come to a free Tuesday evening session.
Additional Information: Email, website, schedule
Miscellaneous
2.) Open discussions planned with Provost candidate Neville Pinto
April 13, noon, Bigelow Hall, MITC, Belknap; April 15, 11:45 p.m., CTR Building, 101, HSC
The campus community will have the opportunity to visit with Executive Vice President and University Provost candidate Neville Pinto, Ph.D. and Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Talks/Seminars/Symposiums
3.) University-wide undergrad research and creative activity symposium set
April 12, 12:30-4 p.m., Shumaker Research Building, Room 139
This will provide a forum where students can showcase research projects that build on and enrich faculty work across the disciplines.
Additional Information: Website, Dr. Pamela Feldhoff
4.) Seminars in Neuroscience Series hosting Case Western professor
April 14, 4 p.m., Baxter I Auditorium
The Seminars in Neuroscience Series is pleased to host Paul Tesar, PhD, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Thursday, April 14, 4 p.m. in the Baxter I Auditorium. Light refreshments will be served.
Additional Information: Ruth O’Bryan
5.) Global Humanities Lecture: Sherlock Holmes and the War on Terror
April 13, 4-6 p.m., Humanities 300
Free
Since his arrival on the scene in 1887, Sherlock Holmes’ readers and critics have debated whether he is the super-cop of a threatened society or an eccentric blade-runner on the fringes of sexual, class, national and human boundaries. Dr. Caroline Reitz (C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center) will explore how the Sherlock Holmes stories anticipated both modern warfare based on knowledge, fear, and shadowy networks, and ideological binds we see 21st century Sherlock attempting to solve.
Additional Information: Lisa Schonburg, Simona Bertacco
6.) Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series: ‘The Long Shadow’
April 13, 5 p.m., University Club
Free
Karl Alexander and Linda Olson will discuss their award-winning work, “The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood.” They and their late colleague, Doris Entwisle, received the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Education for their decades-long study of low-income Baltimore school children. They followed the students from first grade through adulthood and found socioeconomic status trumps education and that those born into poverty are unlikely to escape it.
Additional Information: Christine Payne, 852-2630, website
7.) Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series: The Locust Effect – Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
April 14, 1 p.m., Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium
Free
Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros, winners of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award for “Ideas Improving World Order,” will discuss their award-winning book, which explores how the absence of law enforcement in developing countries undermines the fight against global poverty. The authors contend that all economic efforts to address deprivation are likely to fail in the absence of protection against what they call the “plague of hidden, everyday violence” inflicted on the poor.
Additional Information: Betty Younis, 852-6490, website
8.) Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series: About Time in ‘let me tell you’
April 14, 3 p.m., School of Music, Bird Recital Hall
Free
Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen, winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition, will discuss “let me tell you,” his song cycle for soprano and orchestra that presents a first-person narrative by Ophelia, the tragic noblewoman from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Librettist Paul Griffiths and Abrahamsen’s wife, pianist Anne-Marie Abildskov, also will participate to help examine and illuminate the emotional nuance and depth of Abrahamsen’s Grawemeyer Award-winning work.
Additional Information: Marc Satterwhite, 852-1787, website
9.) Grawemeyer Lecture in Religion: ‘Religion in Health Care: A Tale of Two Maps’
10 a.m., April 13
Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
Susan R. Holman, recipient of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her book, “Beholden: Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights,” presents “Religion in Health Care: A Tale of Two Maps.” Dr. Holman’s work and research examines how faith-based and human rights organizations’ divergent ideological approaches can undermine efforts to address global health issues.
Additional Information: Roy Fuller, 852-0663
10.) Dept. of Physiology, Cardiovascular Innovation Institute present Distinguished Lecture
11:45 a.m., April 12
Hank & Donna Wagner Conference Room – CII
Free
The Department of Physiology and The Cardiovascular Innovation Institute present, “Going with the flow to develop novel atherosclerosis therapeutics – From Mechanobiology to Nanomedicine,” by Hanjoong Jo, PhD, John and Jan Portman, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering & the Division of Cardiology, Emory University and Georgia Tech.
Additional Information: Jay Hoying, PhD
11.) Microbiology and Immunology doctoral defense
Noon- 1p.m., April 13
HSC, Clinical Translational Research Building, Room 123
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series presents a PhD dissertation, “Microbiota Activated CD103+ DCs Stemming from Oral Microbiome Adaptation Specifically Drive γδT17 Proliferation and Systemic Expansion,” by Christopher Fleming, PhD candidate in the lab of Jun Yan, MD, PhD.
Additional Information: Carolyn Burton, 852-6208
12.) Pharmacology and Toxicology Seminar today
Noon, April 12, HSC CTR 124
Free
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology presents a PhD Defense by Diana Avila, title: “Role of Phosphodiesterase-4 in Alcohol-Induced Organ Injury”
Additional Information: Florence Su, 852-5141
Awards
13.) Seeking nominations for Outstanding Community Engagement Awards
April 29
Nominations are now open for the 8th Annual Outstanding Community Engagement Awards. This award recognizes students, staff, faculty, and community partners who are involved in outstanding community engagement activities. Honorees will receive a monetary award of $2,500, a crystal award, and their names will be added to the permanent recognition display in Ekstrom Library. Submission deadline: April 29. See award website for criteria and nomination forms.
Additional Information: Website
Studies
14.) Paid volunteers wanted for UofL Caregiver Stress Study
April; IRB#13.0135
UofL Caregiver Stress Study is looking for healthy European Americans, 40 years and older who have NOT provided care for an ill friend or family member in the last year to fill out a questionnaire and provide saliva samples for up to three different time points. Each visit takes approximately 1 hour and occurs at 5:30 p.m. in the College of Education and Human Development. We are offering $20 compensation for each visit.
Additional Information: Jordan Hall
15.) Volunteers needed for Dissertation Study
April, noon to 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday
316 Davidson Hall
Mentally and physically healthy women, ages 18-40, are needed for a dissertation study on stress, emotion and the immune system. This study aims to better understand how stress and emotions are connected to health. No chronic conditions, current psychiatric diagnoses or medications (birth control OK). Single, two-hour afternoon visit on Belknap campus. No compensation will be provided. Please email for full eligibility criteria.
Additional Information: Yvette Szabo, M.A.
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