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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Feb. 15, 2016:
· Free Saturday program offers youth, parenting skills. Read more.
· Interferon not beneficial for most stage III melanoma. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
The University of Louisville, along with its partner, UL LLC, will officially open the UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center today. The center was created to train industry technical and business professionals from across the country on 3D printing and other advanced manufacturing machinery.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Health and Wellness
1.) Lean Legs
2.) Get Healthy Now offers mindfulness programs
3.) Self-Defense for Women
HR
4.) Advancing in a Competitive Workforce Workshop Today
Miscellaneous
5.) New UofL Today editor named
6.) Live Webinar
7.) UofL Free Store expands hours for spring
Sustainability
8.) Green Tips for UofL Staff
Talks/Seminars
9.) Pharmacology and Toxicology Seminar
10.) CRAFT seminar
Grand Rounds
11.) Endocrinology
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Health and Wellness
1.) Lean Legs
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00 to12:15 p.m., Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym, Studio A
Free for GHN Wellness Center members
Hit your glutes, quads, hamstrings and calves in a 15-minute medley of movements, helping you train all of your supporting leg muscles. Suitable for all fitness levels.
Additional Information: Group fitness schedule; Get Healthy Now website; ghn@louisville.edu
2.) Get Healthy Now offers mindfulness programs
Every Tuesday, drop in between 5:30 to 5:55 p.m.; MBSR (dates vary, see website), Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym
UofL employees, retirees, and their spouse/QA; Prices vary
Join us with Get Healthy Now’s mindfulness offerings with Dr. Paul Salmon of UofL’s Clinical Psychology, who has extensive experience in mindfulness-related practice, teaching, and research. Experience the many health-enhancing benefits of reflection, stillness and being fully present. Come to a free Tuesday evening session or deepen your practice with a future session of the MBSR program ($80).
Additional Information: Website; ghn@louisville.edu or call Kendria Rice-Locket, 852-6885
3.) Self-Defense for Women
March 15, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m., Student Activities Center East, Aerobics Studio
Free
ULPD will be conducting a self-defense program designed and created specifically for women. The curriculum is based on the Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) Systems instruction. It consists of easy to learn, effectively proven physical defense techniques which are taught by certified instructors during the hands-on nine (9) hour program. Classes are open to faculty, staff and students. The class will meet on three consecutive days, with each session lasting 3 hours. Class space is limited to 10.
Additional Information: Officer Oscar Chavez at 852-7233.
HR
4.) Advancing in a Competitive Workforce Workshop Today
Feb. 16, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., Room 103A, Human Resources Building, Belknap Campus
Free
How do you compete, stand out and thrive in a workplace that is crowded with great people? Learn how to be at your best and how to position yourself for greater opportunities through a series of thought-provoking and idea-generating activities to create a plan to allow you to SHINE and be your best at work and in life. Please register online.
Additional Information: staffdev@louisville.edu.
Miscellaneous
5.) New UofL Today editor named
Alicia Kelso has been named the new editor of UofL Today in the Office of Communications and Marketing. Formerly with the UofL Brandeis School of Law, Alicia will be responsible for the UofL Today daily email and the UofL news website. To contact her, send an email to alicia.kelso@louisville.edu or give her a call at 852-2670.
6.) Live Webinar
Feb. 17, 2:00 PM EDT – 3:00 PM, CTR 123
Free
This webinar will present strategies and solutions to increase grant success for individual investigators, including incentives, mentoring, partnering, targeted workshops, individual strategic plans for research funding and tools to assess principal investigator (PI) readiness to pursue grants. This session will also offer some institutional practices that provide a robust research development infrastructure to support and complement individual faculty efforts to pursue grants.
Additional Information: Carla Jones, 852-2454, website
7.) UofL Free Store expands hours for spring
Wednesdays & Thursdays, 12-2pm
The UofL Free Store in Unitas Tower (basement entrance off Cardinal Blvd), has expanded hours to Wednesdays & Thursdays 12-2pm through the end of Spring ’16. All employees and students are welcome to shop for free clothes/shoes, electronics, household & bath supplies, books, school & art supplies, non-perishable food, etc. Volunteers and clean donated items always welcome. UofL’s Sustainability Council & GRASS run the Free Store to aid those in need by keeping useful items out landfills.
Additional Information: Website
Sustainability
8.) Green Tips for UofL Staff
Feb. 16
Make sure you mark unwanted cardboard boxes as “recycling” so custodial staff know they are ok to be removed from your space. This could potentially help cut down tipping cost, free your space of unwanted cardboard and reduce waste in landfill bins.
Additional Information: Website
Talks/Seminars
9.) Pharmacology and Toxicology Seminar
Feb. 16, noon – 1 p.m., Feb. 16, CTR 124
Free
The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology presents a Research Seminar by La Creis Renee Kidd, Ph.D., M.P.H. Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Title: The Role of Inflammatory Markers & miR-186 in Prostate Cancer
Additional Information: Florence Su, flo.su@louisville.edu, 852-5141
10.) CRAFT seminar
Feb. 18, 12:00 p.m., CTR 124
Free for students and postdocs
Dr. Jim Gould, who obtained his PhD from U of L, is the director of the HMS/HSDM Office for Postdoctoral Fellows at Harvard Medical School. This session will highlight ways for students and postdocs to get the most out of their training, leveraging available resources, and preparing for a seamless transition into the next phase of their career.
Additional Information: Tiffany Monyhan.
Grand Rounds
11.) Endocrinology Grand Rounds
Feb. 17, 4 p.m., Baxter II Research Building, lower level, Room 038
Please join us as Johanna S. Archer, M.D., Fertility First, Reproductive Endocrine Services, Louisville, KY, presents “Clinical Care for the Adult Woman with Turner Syndrome.”
Additional Information: Kelly Galiette, 852-5237.
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Direct questions about UofL Today to Alicia Kelso, 852-2670, or the Office of Communications and Marketing, 852-6171. The deadline for including a submission in the next day’s UofL Today email is noon.