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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Jan. 5, 2016:
· PHOTOS, VIDEO: Students, employees and fans helped pack food items at Second Harvest Food Bank in Nashville. Service projects are part of UofL’s bowl tradition. View photos here. Watch video here.
· VIDEO: The UofL Alumni Association hosted hundreds at Hard Rock for the Music City Bowl. View here.
· Position Announcement: Executive Vice President and University Provost. Read more.
· Next ‘Beer With a Scientist’ topic: Mars. Read more.
· African American Theatre Program presents original play, 2 other productions. Read more.
· Norton, UofL reach agreements, end litigation. (Repeating to fix link.) Read more.
· Red Cross recognizes efforts of nursing students. (Repeating to fix link.) Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
The Kent School of Social Work is home to the Survivors of Torture Recovery Center, which provides medical and mental health as well as social services.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Health and Wellness
1.) Be your Golden Self in 2016! GHN Employee Appreciation Events
2.) Want to stop smoking? Let us help with your resolution!
3.) Make a splash with Get Healthy Now water fitness
4.) Get Healthy Now Wellness Center’s Member of the Month
5.) Join the dance party with Zumba
Miscellaneous
6.) UClub offering Open Dining through Feb. 17
7.) MLK Week events scheduled
8.) Lab Safety and Hazardous Waste training
Sustainability
9.) Green Tip: UofL CarShare Promo extended through 4/30; join for $1, drive for $5/hr
Talks/Seminars
10.) Biochemistry Seminar
11.) Microbiology and Immunology seminar
Grand Rounds
12.) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
13.) Psychiatry: Perception, Reality, and the Unconscious Mind
14.) Medicine: Dr. Nathan Brummel
15.) Cardiovascular Medicine
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Health and Wellness
1.) Be your Golden Self in 2016! GHN Employee Appreciation Events
Jan. 13, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., City Cafe, Kornhauser Library, Health Sciences Center
Jan. 20, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Seasons Salad Bar, SAC, Belknap Campus
Free to employees, spouses, and QAs
Take action and join us for the annual Get Healthy Now Employee Appreciation events. Register below to receive 25% off your healthy, affordable lunch purchase at the Take 20 event. Feel free to take your meal “to go,” as you learn about GHN’s unique 2016 program offerings. You may discover what really kick starts your new year! Explore these NEW offerings: Strive – Stress Management with Music and Drumming, Tai Chi, Meatless Monday Cooking Demo and Tasting, and many more. Register for HSC Event here. Register for Belknap Campus Event here.
Additional Information: http://louisville.edu/gethealthynow; ghn@louisville.edu; 852-7755.
2.) Want to stop smoking? Let us help with your resolution!
Jan. 8, noon to 1 p.m., Brown Cancer Center – Krista Lloyd Resource Center
FREE to public
Are you interested in becoming a non-smoker? The Kentucky Cancer Program will be offering Cooper Clayton smoking cessation classes starting Friday, Jan. 8 from noon-1pm. The class will meet each Friday for 13 weeks. This highly successful program is science-based and uses proven methods, including education, skills training and social support. Nicotine replacement products will also be provided to the participants. To sign up, please call 852-6318 today!
Additional Information: Janikaa Sherrod, 852-6318.
3.) Make a splash with Get Healthy Now water fitness
Spring session: Jan. 12 – April. 21 (No class March 15-17), Tuesday/Thursday, Noon to 12:45 p.m., Natatorium
Free, UofL employees, retirees and their spouse/QA
Are you looking for a form of exercise that is easy on the joints and big on fun? Join Get Healthy Now’s Water Fitness class for the 2016 spring semester. The benefits of this class include increased energy, better sleep, relief from joint pain and more. Suitable for all fitness levels and no swimming skills needed (hair can stay dry or not). Enroll today!
Additional Information: GHN@louisville.edu; 852-7755.
4.) Get Healthy Now Wellness Center’s Member of the Month
Congratulations to Marty O’Toole for being Get Healthy Now’s Member of the Month for January. This month’s theme is Healthy Resolutions.
Additional Information: http://louisville.edu/gethealthynow; ghn@louisville.edu; 852-7755.
5.) Join the dance party with Zumba
Mondays 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. and Wednesdays 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. (5:15 to 5:30 p.m. first Wed. only), Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym
Free for GHN Wellness Center members
Take the “work” out of workout and show off those dance moves for great fitness fun! We combine Latin, hip hop and International music with fun and dynamic dance moves to boost your heart rate and burn calories. You will experience a total body workout and a good sweat by joining this dance-fitness party! Suitable for all fitness levels.
Additional Information: Group Fitness Schedule. Website; ghn@louisville.edu; 852-7755.
6.) UClub offering Open Dining through Feb. 17
11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., University Club
$6.95 to $13.50
Welcome back! The Club is approaching its 25th Anniversary. To celebrate this grand occasion, we are offering Open Dining to all UofL employees, alumni and friends of the university, through our anniversary date of Feb. 17. You may pay with cash or credit card. If you are not a member already, this will be a great time to experience dining at its best at a price you can afford. Also, take a moment to talk to our membership director about a permanent membership.
Additional Information: Linda Johnson, 852-6996, www.uclublouisville.org.
7.) MLK Week events scheduled
Begins Jan. 11, various locations
Free
Join the Cultural Center for its 2nd annual MLK Week beginning Jan. 11. The theme, “Keeping the Dream Alive,” aims to bring students, faculty, staff and the local community together to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Visit the Cultural Center’s website for information. Co-sponsored by the Woodford R. Porter Scholars.
Additional Information: Leondra Gully, 852-0231; Vickie Bridgeman, 852-0232.
8.) Lab Safety and Hazardous Waste training
Jan. 7, 9 a.m. to noon, Room 2034, KWING, School of Nursing
Free
Recently hired lab employees who work with chemicals should attend this training. Recurrent training for lab employees is required every three years and may be completed in Bioraft (online refresher training). Bring employee/student ID number to sign in. Attendees can pre-register at www.louisville.edu/dehs, however advance registration is not required.
Additional Information: Cathy Price, 852-2956.
Sustainability
9.) Green Tip: UofL CarShare Promo extended through 4/30; join for $1, drive for $5/hr
Need a car for professional or personal reasons? UofL CarShare has announced an extension through Spring 2016 of its special promotion slashing new member costs! Join now for only $1, and drive for just $5/hour through April 30! Rates include gas, insurance, maintenance and cleaning. Cars are parked in dedicated spots on Belknap and a new car will be added to HSC this spring. UofL CarShare is open to any licensed driver over 18. Use promo code 1TOJOIN at enterprisecarshare.com/louisville.
Additional Information: Full details on all your UofL transportation alternatives.
10.) Biochemistry Seminar
Jan. 6, noon, Homberger Library, HSC-A, Rm 614
Ron Gregg, professor and Chair, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics. “Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics: Past, Present and Future.”
Additional Information: janice.burkett@louisville.edu.
11.) Microbiology and Immunology seminar
Jan. 7, noon to 1 p.m, Clinical Translational Research Building, Room 101
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series presents, “Crossing the Species Barrier: Understanding Host Range Restriction of Viral Infection,” by Margaret Scull, Ph.D.; Research Associate, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University.
Additional Information: Carolyn Burton, 852-6208.
Grand Rounds
12.) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
Jan. 6, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Bingham Clinic conference room, 2nd floor of Norton Hospital
Robert Caudill, MD, assoc. professor, Residency Training Director, Director, Telemedicine/Information Technology Programs, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Chief Medical Officer, Adult Services, Seven Counties Services, Inc. will present Updates for Telemedicine in Pediatrics and Psychiatry.
Additional Information: Jan Schoen, 588-0816.
13.) Psychiatry: Perception, Reality, and the Unconscious Mind
Jan. 7, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., ACB Auditorium
Free
Brian Garret, MD, OD, and PGY-4 resident with the psychiatry department at U of L, will explore the definition of perception and how it defines our concept of reality, investigate how the unconscious mind contributes to our sense of perception, and demonstrate processes, and adaptations that may contribute to unconscious behavior and perceptual experience. Also, he will discuss the nature of the unconscious mind including reflex pathways and mal-adaptive behaviors.
Additional Information: Miranda Sloan.
14.) Medicine: Dr. Nathan Brummel
Jan. 7, 8 a.m., Ambulatory Care Building auditorium
Medicine Grand Rounds features Nathan E. Brummel, MD, instructor in medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Brummel will present Undone in the ICU: Towards an Understanding of the Long-Term Consequences of Critical Illness, focusing on long-term cognitive impairment and disability associated with survival from critical illness, using the vulnerability hypothesis to understand risk factors, and preliminary trials of rehabilitation for long-term cognitive impairment.
Additional Information: Jason Puckett, 852-1825.
15.) Cardiovascular Medicine
Jan. 6, noon to 1 p.m., Jewish Hospital, Rudd Heart and Lung Center, Top Floor, Conference Center
Please join the division of cardiovascular medicine’s Grand Rounds featuring Dmitry Abramov, MD, who will present “Advanced Therapies for End Stage Heart Failure in Patients with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy.” Dr. Abramov is assistant professor, division of cardiovascular medicine, University of Louisville.
Additional Information: Monica Sivori, http://louisville.edu/medicine/cmgr.
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