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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on March 17, 2015:
· VIDEO: UofL creating a scenic front door on the east side of Belknap Campus. View here.
· Statewide workshop to examine renewable energy, efficiency. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
The UofL women’s basketball team faces Brigham Young University in the first round of their NCAA tournament Saturday. BYU’s mascot is a cougar, and the Provo, Utah, school had two live cougars as their first mascots in the early 1920s. Today’s human cougar, “Cosmo,” who came on the scene in 1953, “is real enough to have feelings that can be hurt by fans booing or throwing drinks at him or by being rude to other fans or players.” Read more.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Awards
1.) Nominations due for the 2015 Unsung SHERO Award
Human Resources
2.) TIAA-CREF, Fidelity reps on campus
3.) Training catalog available
IT
4.) Service to help repel phishing email messages
Miscellaneous
5.) HSC Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Veggie Rx program
6.) KSCIRC research funding announcement
7.) Data requests to Institutional Research and Planning
8.) U.S. Army Medical Symposium to be held
9.) 2015 undergraduate research grant opportunities
10.) 2015 graduate student grant opportunities announced
Sustainability
11.) Green Tip: New option for smaller vanpools
Talks
12.) Engaged Scholarship in Action series continues with a discussion on racial disparities (rescheduled from inclement weather date)
13.) McConnell Center talk: U.S. will be OK
Grand Rounds
14.) Cardiovascular Medicine
15.) Medicine: 2015 Beverly Towery Lecture
Defenses
16.) Microbiology & Immunology doctoral defense
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Awards
1.) Nominations due for the 2015 Unsung SHERO Award
Deadline: March 20
The deadline is approaching for nominations for the 2015 Unsung SHERO Award presented by the UofL Transformation Tea Committee. For award criteria, nomination form and more details, email Kathryn Doaty or Georgette Moore. The award recipient will be recognized at the April 1 Transformation Tea event.
Additional Information: Phyllis M. Webb.
Human Resources
2.) TIAA-CREF, Fidelity reps on campus
TIAA-CREF will be on Belknap Campus in HR on March 18, April 16 and April 22 and HSC campus on April 21 and 29. The contact number to schedule an appointment with TIAA-CREF is 1-800-732-8353. Fidelity Investments will be on Belknap Campus in HR on March 25, April 2, April 14 and on HSC Campus on March 19 and 30, April 9 and April 22. The contact number to schedule an appointment with Fidelity Investments is 1-800-642-7131.
3.) Training catalog available
The Staff Development and Employee Relations Office is excited to announce that the 2015 Spring Human Resources Training Catalog is available online. Take a few moments to browse the website and register for a course. Registration: www.louisville.edu/hr/training.
Additional Information: brandon.joseph@louisville.edu.
IT
4.) Service to help repel phishing email messages
On March 20, IT will implement Proofpoint (TAP), a new service to protect users from phishing email messages containing malicious URLs designed to steal passwords, credit card, personal and financial information. Proofpoint analyzes all email received by the university for new threats. If a URL is identified as malicious, the system will display a page that the link is a known security risk and will not redirect. For additional information please read Proofpoint Enterprise Protection.
Additional Information: HelpDesk, 852-7997.
Miscellaneous
5.) HSC Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Veggie Rx program
March 24, noon to 1 p.m., Room 2006, Nursing School
Free
Are you interested in the concept of fresh fruit and vegetable access to low income and at risk populations? If so, you are invited to participate and share your ideas concerning project Veggie Rx sponsored by Fresh Stop-New Roots Inc., a local food cooperative and the HSC Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Veggie Rx is a food outreach program connecting at risk populations with fresh food resources. To learn more, please join us Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A healthy lunch will be provided.
Additional Information: RSVP no later than March 23 by 2 p.m. at HSCODI@louisville.edu or call 852-7159.
6.) KSCIRC research funding announcement
Application deadline 11:59 p.m. May 3
KSCIRC offers a unique opportunity to UofL investigators from various disciplines to perform high quality neurotrauma research without the need to adapt new technologies in their laboratories. To enable UofL investigators to take full advantage of KSCIRC cores, a pilot grant program has been funded as a part the KSCIRC Center grant. Budgets of up to $22,500 (direct costs) for a period of 12 months may be requested.
Additional Information: Website ; Martin Brown, 852-8052.
7.) Data requests to Institutional Research and Planning
MITC 305
The data request form for Institutional Research and Planning is now available. Please submit all requests for data to: http://louisville.edu/oapa/institutional-research-and-planning.
Additional Information: Becky Patterson, 852-6169.
8.) U.S. Army Medical Symposium to be held
March 25, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., School of Medicine
Free for pre-med students, medical students, residents and attendings
The Louisville Medical Recruiting Center is hosting an Army Medicine Career Symposium for pre-med students, medical students, residents and attending physicians in the Greater Louisville area. Special presentations: emergency medicine, physician general surgery, physician family medicine, physician infectious disease/preventive medicine, physician trauma simulation and medevac exercise.
Additional Information: For more information, call 502-423-7342 or SFC James Ryherd 270-304-9496, SSG William Prescott 270-304-4490, SSG Michelle Messina 502-314-6548.
9.) 2015 undergraduate research grant opportunities
CODRE and the Office of the EVPRI offers diversity grants for UofL minority undergraduate students conducting research in the areas of science, technology, engineering and/or math and for UofL undergrads to conduct research in areas that impacts populations which are diverse, under-served, under-represented and/or vulnerable populations. Any student research project submitted for funding must have UofL faculty supervision and institutional approval.
Additional Information: Georgette L. Moore, 852-2029. Website.
10.) 2015 graduate student grant opportunities announced
This initiative will focus on supporting UofL graduate student research that targets diverse, underserved, under-represented and/or vulnerable populations. We expect to award three projects (for a max of $1,000 each). Any student research project submitted for funding must have UofL faculty supervision and appropriate institutional approval. Research projects can come from any discipline represented at UofL. Deadline: March 30.
Additional Information: Georgette L. Moore, 852-2029. Website.
Sustainability
11.) Green Tip: New option for smaller vanpools
Tired of the long, lonely, expensive commute? RideShare by Enterprise is a new service for forming smaller vanpools of just 4+ people who commute 20+ miles to UofL. The program requires a three-month commitment, but offers a wide variety of vehicle options, insurance, maintenance, weekend vehicle access, a guaranteed ride home program, roadside assistance and loaner vehicles. Find existing vanpools or register your interest and we’ll help match you up with your neighbors at enterpriserideshare.com
Additional Information: Sara Gooch,502-479-4764. Website.
Talks
12.) Engaged Scholarship in Action series continues with a discussion on racial disparities (rescheduled from inclement weather date)
April 3, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Clinical and Translational Research Building, Room 101
Free
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the panel discussion “From Parkland to Ferguson: The Persistence of Racial Disparities” will feature brief presentations about community-engaged work on the topic, followed by a conversation on how interdisciplinary efforts might lead to more effective collaborations and positive community outcomes. Light lunch served. Panelists: Vicki Hines-Martin (Nursing), David Owen (Philosophy) Cedric Powell (Law), and Monnica Williams (Psychology).
Additional Information: Jamie Beard, 852-6142. Cosponsored by Offices of the Dean of the College Arts & Sciences, Dean of the Brandeis School of Law, Dean of the Kent School of Social Work, Dean of the College of Education and Human Development, Dean of the School of Medicine, Dean of the School of Nursing, Dean of the School of Public Health and Information Sciences, and the Office for Community Engagement.
13.) McConnell Center talk: U.S. will be OK
March 23, 6 p.m., Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium
The United States will prosper in the future even as other nations decline. So says geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan, who on The Coming Global Disorder: What Will America’s Role Be in the 21st Century? This talk is part of the McConnell Center’s Debating America series.
Additional Information: GlyptusAnn Jones, 852-3158.
Grand Rounds
14.) Cardiovascular Medicine
March 18, noon, Jewish, Rudd Heart & Lung, Conference Center
Cardiovascular Medicine presents Dr. Roberto Bolli, MD, UofL professor – physiology and biophysics, chief, division of cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Bolli will present “Cell Therapy for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Fact or Fiction.”
Additional Information: Monica Sivori, 852-1162. Website.
15.) Medicine: 2015 Beverly Towery Lecture
March 19, 8 a.m., Ambulatory Care Building auditorium
Medicine Grand Rounds features the 2015 Beverly Towery Lecture to be presented by Dolores Shoback, MD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Shoback will present Osteoporosis: Current Management Controversies and New Targets for Possible Therapeutics, focusing on the risk assessment and management of osteoporosis and new pathways for treatment.
Additional Information: Jason Puckett, 852-1825.
Defenses
16.) Microbiology & Immunology doctoral defense
March 18, 2 to 3 p.m., Baxter II, Room 38
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series presents a PhD dissertation, Early Host Responses and Immune Signaling to 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Viruses in Primary Cell Culture Models,” by Rachael Gerlach, PhD candidate, mentored by Colleen Jonsson, PhD.
Additional Information: Carolyn Burton, 852-6208.
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