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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Nov. 18, 2015:
· PHOTOS: UofL Theatre Arts presents ‘The Piano Lesson.’ View here.
· Fiber artist Jo Stealey to give public lecture. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
UofL trains about 45 nurse practitioners a year.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Athletics
1.) Athletics offering discounted UofL-UK football tickets
Health and Wellness
2.) Good news: Get Healthy Now 2016 Enrollment Opportunity extended
HR
3.) Employee and dependent tuition remission: process change
Miscellaneous
4.) Food truck schedule for Belknap this week
5.) Eat for a good cause
6.) University of Louisville Compliance – When in doubt, point it out!
7.) Applications for Lewis Scholarships and Fellowships now available
8.) Students Perform Opera Scenes
Sustainability
9.) Green Tip: Friday’s sustainability triple-header
Talks/Seminars
10.) Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology
Grand Rounds
11.) Pediatrics
12.) Family Medicine
13.) Orthopaedic Surgery
14.) Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
1.) Athletics offering discounted UofL-UK football tickets
$50
Help represent Card Nation in Lexington on Saturday, Nov. 28, as Louisville football takes on in-state rival Kentucky. Cardinal Athletics is offering $50 tickets to faculty and staff. Each employee can purchase up to four tickets. Tickets must be purchased in person at the Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium ticket office by Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 5 p.m. The ticket office is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Additional Information: Ticket Office, 502-852-5151.
Health and Wellness
2.) Good news: Get Healthy Now 2016 Enrollment Opportunity extended
GHN has extended the 2016 enrollment opportunity until Dec. 3. This two-week extension allows employees to enroll and earn the rewards of good health in 2016. Act now to take the online health assessment! If you have not already done so, visit: https://uoflgethealthynow.biovia.healthfitness.com Note: All users, regardless of past participation, will have to set up a new user account on the enhanced web platform.
Learn more: http://louisville.edu/gethealthynow/documents/2016-enrollment-instructions
Questions: Call 852-7755 or ghn@louisville.edu
HR
3.) Employee and dependent tuition remission: process change
Attention employees: New changes to the tuition remission process have occurred. The policy and eligibility requirements have not changed. However, there is a new process to determine eligibility for both employee and dependent tuition remission. Please visit the Human Resource Education Benefits webpage for more information on these updates.
Additional Information: Aubrey Woolley at 852-3556 or e-mail HRadmin@louisville.edu. Education Benefits webpage: http://louisville.edu/hr/human-resources/benefits/education.
4.) Food truck schedule for Belknap this week
This week’s food truck schedule for Belknap Campus (final food trucks until Spring!):
Thursday, Nov. 19: Mark’s Feed Store, Speed/Duthie, 10:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.; Boss Hog BBQ, Ville Grill, 4 to 7 p.m.
5.) Eat for a good cause
Support UofL’s student-funded Habitat for Humanity house! A portion of any purchase tonight (Thursday) from 5 to 9 p.m. at Señor Iguana’s (dine-in or take home) will be given to our student chapter. Señor Iguana’s is in the Kroger shopping center near Belknap Campus. No coupons necessary.
Additional Information: UofL Today story.
6.) University of Louisville Compliance – When in doubt, point it out!
The university is committed to conducting its affairs in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. When situations arise that may jeopardize the university’s honesty and integrity, employees are encouraged to report them. What is compliance? How do I report potential non-compliance? If you find yourself asking these questions, please read more. To request a live presentation about our compliance program, please contact the Institutional Compliance Office at icouofl@louisville.edu.
7.) Applications for Lewis Scholarships and Fellowships now available
The Richard and Constance Lewis Scholarships and Fellowships in Latin American and Iberian Studies are open to students and faculty who wish to study abroad or conduct research projects in Latin America, Spain or Portugal in 2016. The application deadline is Dec. 2.
Additional Information: Rhonda Buchanan, 852-2034; louisville.edu/latinamericanstudies
8.) Students perform opera scenes
Nov. 20, 8 p.m., Comstock Concert Hall
Free and open to the public
Students from the School of Music will perform operas and arias, all selections from Mozart. The performances serve as training for the School of Music’s full opera “The Magic Flute” April 8 and 10 at the Bomhard Theater at the Kentucky Center for Performing Arts.
Additional Information: Michael Ramach, 852-0544.
Sustainability
9.) Green Tip: Friday’s sustainability triple-header
Friday offers three chances to DIG into sustainability – from the intellectual to free lunch to actual digging! At noon in Ekstrom W210, join us for our monthly EcoReps Lunch & Learn on industrial sustainability, permaculture, and green study abroad. Also at noon, in Urban Studies 123, Covington’s first female mayor will speak on “The Equity Piece of Sustainable Communities.” Stick around until 2 p.m. for an Urban Studies Garden workday to help harvest sweet potatoes and plant garlic and pawpaw trees!
Additional Information: http://louisville.edu/sustainability/events.html
Talks/Seminars
10.) Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology
Nov. 19, 4 to 5 p.m., Baxter Auditorium
Free
ASNB Fall Seminar Series Presents: David Stirling, PhD, assistant professor, KSCIR, Department of Neurological Surgery: Mechanisms of White Matter Injury.
Additional Information: Matt Guido, 852-6227.
Grand Rounds
11.) Pediatrics
Nov. 20, 8 a.m., Norton Hospital, 2nd Floor Auditorium
This Friday, please join us for the 41st Annual Dr. John I. Perlstein Memorial Lectureship featuring Daniel West, MD. West is professor and vice-chair of education and the director of the residency training program in the department of pediatrics at the University of California in San Francisco. He will be presenting “The New Frontier in Medical Education: Patient-Centered and Competency-Based Medical Education.”
Additional Information: Brittney Luckett, 629-8828.
12.) Family Medicine
Nov. 20, 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Jewish Hospital Bottigheimer Auditorium
Karen Krigger, MD, associate professor, UofL Family & Geriatric Medicine, will present, Are You Treating It the Same Old Way? STD Treatment Guideline Update 2015. Dr. Krigger will review the 2015 changes in the CDC recommended treatment guidelines for sexually transmitted diseases. CME category 1 is available for both AAFP & ACCME accreditation.
Additional Information: Mickie Mulloy, 852-0797.
13.) Orthopaedic Surgery
Nov. 20, 6:45 to 7:45 a.m., Baxter I Research Building, auditorium, lower level
Please join the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery as we welcome Brandi Hartley, MD, assistant professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Louisville. Dr. Hartley will lecture on Rib Fracture Fixation.
Additional Information: Monica Welsh, 852-6902.
14.) Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health
Nov. 20, 1 to 2 p.m., Ambulatory Care Building-Basement Auditorium
Please join us as Sara Petruska, MD, our student clerkship director and generalists will present, “Good student- read more: The Story of a Medical Student Evaluation.” She will help you understand the path traveled by a med student evaluation, approach narrative feedback in a structured manner to increases timely, specific, actionable and compassionate feedback to students and review our clerkship and identify opportunities for improvement.
Additional Information: Crystal Menear, 561-7463.
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