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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on April 17, 2015:
· Students to bike 1,500 miles for Habitat house. Read more.
· International Honor Quilt database available to the public. Read more.
· VIDEO: Community engagement is a key initiative for the University of Louisville. Watch as UofL President James Ramsey and the Board of Trustees tour some of the successful programs in the university’s Signature Partnership Initiative in Louisville’s West End. Watch here.
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DID YOU KNOW?
UofL has 18 grounds crew employees who mow more than 50 acres a week during the growing season. Click here for a rockin’ ride on a UofL mower.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
1.) Construction to prevent left turns at Warnock, Floyd streets
Events
2.) A&S Faculty Awards and Reception is Friday
3.) 21st Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust Symposium
Faculty
4.) Sign up for iClicker demo session on Belknap Campus
Health and Wellness
5.) Get in shape with GHN’s R.I.P.P.E.D.
Miscellaneous
6.) SIGS hosts panel of women in alternative-academic careers
7.) Meet and Greet the Research Integrity Program staff
8.) RSO registration for CARDS Expo at freshman orientation
9.) Kentucky Poets Laureate on display at Ekstrom
Seminars
10.) CGeMM Seminar
Talks
11.) Goethe, World Literature and the Chinese Novel: CCHS Distinguished Visitor Daniel Purdy
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Belknap Construction
1.) Construction to prevent left turns at Warnock, Floyd streets
Construction in the intersection will force turn restrictions on Floyd Street and Warnock Avenue next week. Through traffic will be allowed, but left turns will be forbidden from all four directions at the intersection beginning Monday, April 20. For more construction updates, go to: http://louisville.edu/president/special-programs/streetscape.
Events
2.) A&S Faculty Awards and Reception is Friday
April 24, 3 p.m., Red Barn
The 2015 Celebration of Faculty Excellence in A&S will honor winners of this year’s faculty awards and retiring faculty. Click here for a list of honorees.
Additional Information: Website.
3.) 21st Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust Symposium
May 20, 8 a.m., Downtown Marriott Hotel
There is still time to register for the 21st Annual KSCHIRT Symposium which will be held May 20 and 21st at the Downtown Marriott Hotel. Go to the KSIRC web site at www.louisville.edu/kscirc and follow the instructions for registration. The full program is also on the website.
Additional Information: Ruth O’Bryan, 852-8059.
Faculty
4.) Sign up for iClicker demo session on Belknap Campus
April 12, 10 a.m. to noon, Ekstrom Library Room 244, Delphi Lab
Free
If you are interested in iClicker or its mobile partner REEF Polling, you’ll want to attend this informational demo session. Please join the Delphi Center and Glen Garrett from iClicker for a session about iClicker/REEF Polling. iClicker is a tool that allows students to submit answers for in-class polling, and REEF Polling adds the convenience of using a smart phone or laptop as a substitute clicker. Refreshments will be provided for this session.
Additional Information: Registration. Linda Leake, 852-4332.
Health and Wellness
5.) Get in shape with GHN’s R.I.P.P.E.D.
Mondays, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym; Studio A
Employees, retirees and their spouses/QAs
Get in shape with GHN’s R.I.P.P.E.D. group fitness class! This class is specifically designed to make you work hard and get you heated—in a good way! This high intensity class that uses a combination of free weight, body weight and resistance training will make you sweat and forget about the weather. So stop wishing for warmer times and make it happen at GHN’s R.I.P.P.E.D.! Suitable for all fitness levels.
Additional Information: Group fitness schedule; ghn@louisville.edu; 852-7755.
Miscellaneous
6.) SIGS hosts panel of women in alternative-academic careers
April 21, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., Shumaker Research Building, Room 139
The School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies has invited several women from within and outside of the UofL community to discuss opportunities for women receiving graduate degrees who are interested in alternatives to tenure-track positions or in work outside of the academy. Panelists will share their own experiences in choosing a career path, and attendees will be encouraged to ask questions. Grad students interested in attending can register and find more info on the PLAN website.
Additional Information: keri.mathis@louisville.edu; Event page.
7.) Meet and Greet the Research Integrity Program staff
April 22, noon to 2 p.m., Red Barn
Free
You’re invited to come meet the Research Integrity Program staff. Pizza will be served and prizes given away at this event. The first eighty attendees will receive a ticket for a scoop of ice cream provided by Louisville Cream. We hope to see you there!
Additional Information: Carla Jones, 852-2454. Website.
8.) RSO registration for CARDS Expo at freshman orientation
Do you advise an RSO that may want to connect with incoming freshman? Student Organizations may register to participate in the CARDS Expo, an organizations fair held during Freshman Orientation. This is a great way for organization representatives to connect with new students before the fall semester begins! The deadline to submit a registration form is May 1, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. More information and the registration form can be found online at https://orgsync.com/67932/forms/14111
Additional Information: Shannon McGinnis, 852-2281.
9.) Kentucky Poets Laureate on display at Ekstrom
Through May 31
Visit the 1st floor west cases for a display honoring the new Kentucky Poet Laureate, George Ella Lyon, and past Poets Laureate with photos, books, literary magazines and broadsides.
Seminars
10.) CGeMM Seminar
April 21, noon, Baxter 038
Eric Poeschla, MD; Head, Div of Infectious Diseases; Univ of CO Sch of Med, Aurora, CO. ‘Editing the Human Genome with Site-Specific Nucleases to Eradicate the HIV-1 Integration Cofactor LEDGF/p75 and Related Proteins’
Additional Information: janice.burkett@louisville.edu.
Talks
11.) Goethe, World Literature and the Chinese Novel: CCHS Distinguished Visitor Daniel Purdy
April 22, 3 to 4:30 p.m., Bingham Humanities Bldg. Room 300
Free
Pennsylvania State University Professor Daniel Purdy will discuss Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s idea of World Literature and trace its origins through seventeenth-century Jesuit missions to China. He will explore the genealogy of empathy both as a religious and aesthetic mode of identification between different cultures. Purdy’s scholarly research combines contemporary theory about material culture with canonical philosophy in order to demonstrate the historical interplay between systematic thought and the everyday life.
Additional Information: Commonwealth Center for the Humanities & Society, 852-8977; website.
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