Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Oct. 20, 2014:
· VIDEO: UofL fans celebrate Welcome bACC. View here.
· VIDEO: It was a great day for the first Homecoming Parade in 15 years! View here.
· VIDEO: First they flossed. Then they walked. They were raising money for the UofL Dental Hygiene program’s legacy fund. View here.
· PHOTOS: Didn’t have a close-up view of the Homecoming? Check out these photos! View here.
· PHOTOS: The Alumni Fellows Dinner was held Oct. 16, featuring Alumnus of the year Robert Hughes as well as Alumni Fellows from each of UofL’s schools and colleges. View here.
· Four honored for community service. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Jessie Roth, assistant to the dean of the UofL Libraries, has a dog named Emmett who was rescued after the 2012 tornadoes that devastated West Liberty, Ky. Rob Detmering, teaching and reference librarian at Ekstrom Library, has a dog named Pep Streebek whose pastime is eating puzzles. Read more about library staff members’ pets here (October, 2014 edition).
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
We’ve Got You Covered
1.) Benefits fair is on HSC today and tomorrow
2.) Important notice from UofL about your prescription drug coverage and Medicare
Today
3.) Planetarium to show The Spectacular to faculty and staff
4.) Reminder: Final Caregiving Workshop is today
Tomorrow
5.) Free recycling collections: cell phones, mobile devices, documents, diskettes, videotapes
Art
6.) Learn about the earliest roots of music at the Carnegie Center for Art and History
Miscellaneous
7.) CORRECTION: Partial solar eclipse won’t be visible at UofL
8.) Student Recreation Center to host faculty/staff open house
9.) Why scholars should care about copyright and Open Access
10.) Bookstore seeking 2015 spring semester textbook and course material orders
11.) Higher Education Administration MA and PhD information session scheduled
12.) Historic amateur films of Indiana and Kentucky showing
13.) A&S faculty author party scheduled
Seminars
14.) Chemical Engineering
Studies
15.) Pediatric constipation study
Grand Rounds
16.) Endocrinology
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
We’ve Got You Covered
1.) Benefits fair is on HSC today and tomorrow
9 a.m. to 4 p.m., CTR Building, HSC Campus
HR benefits representatives and UofL’ s benefits vendors (Anthem BlueCross BlueShield, Chard-Snyder, Get Healthy Now, Humana Dental, National Vision Administrators, Express Scripts and EAP) will be on HSC Campus to answer questions and help you navigate through the Open Enrollment process. Benefits Open Enrollment ends Oct. 31 at midnight.
Additional Information: Visit Open Enrollment Website for more information and to make your elections.
2.) Important notice from UofL about your prescription drug coverage and Medicare
If you or your family members are currently covered by Medicare or will become covered by Medicare in the next 12 months, please view the Notice of Creditable Coverage.
Additional Information: Website.
Today
3.) Planetarium to show The Spectacular to faculty and staff
Oct. 21; noon, 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 11:30 p.m.
Free
Faculty and staff who missed The Spectacular or who would like to see it again are in luck. The Rauch Planetarium will provide free showings of 3-D light show today at noon, 3 and 5 p.m. Light refreshments will precede each showing, which also will include a sneak preview of the planetarium’s Halloween laser show, Laser Fright Night. The planetarium also will present The Spectacular at 11:30 p.m. for overnight Physical Plant workers. The showings are sponsored by the Rauch Planetarium, the Great Places to Work Committee, University Advancement and the Office of the Vice President for Business Affairs.
4.) Reminder: Final Caregiving Workshop is today
Oct. 21, 12 to 12:45 p.m., Chao Auditorium
Free, UofL employees, retirees, and their spouse/QA
Whether you’ve been following the series in person or online, or you’ve missed them all but could use a quick summary, please join us for this final workshop in the Caregiving series, Caregiving with Confidence, featuring Jo Ann Kalb of Jewish Family and Career Services and Delinda Buie of UofL Libraries.
Additional Information: Stephanie Weldy, Website.
Tomorrow
5.) Free recycling collections: cell phones, mobile devices, documents, diskettes, videotapes
Oct. 22, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Humanities Quad and College of Business Circle
Special one-time free recycling collections will be available during the Campus Sustainability Day fair on the Humanities Quad. Bring your old cell phones and mobile devices for secure recycling sponsored by Brown Industries. Shred-It will also be offering free shredding and recycling of all documents, diskettes and videotapes (separately sorted) at its truck at the College of Business circle.
Additional Information: Campus Sustainability Day details.
Art
6.) Learn about the earliest roots of music at the Carnegie Center for Art and History
Oct. 21, noon to 1p.m., Carnegie Center for Art and History, 201 East Spring St., New Albany, Indiana
Free
Vibraphonist and jazz musician Dick Sisto will present a description, demonstration and performance of African percussion instruments. Bring lunch: drinks are provided. Admission is free but registration is required.
Additional Information: (812) 944-7336 or email Laura Wilkins.
Miscellaneous
7.) CORRECTION: Partial solar eclipse won’t be visible at UofL
Oct. 23, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium
Free
The planetarium will be open to faculty, staff and students who would like to take a quick journey to the sun in our virtual spaceship and learn a little about the workings of solar eclipses in a short 10-minute presentation that will be offered multiple times. Unfortunately, the sun will be beyond the sight line in our courtyard, so the Louisville Astronomical Society will not have solar telescopes set up to view the partial eclipse.
Additional Information: planet@louisville.edu, 852-6665; Website.
8.) Student Recreation Center to host faculty/staff open house
Oct. 22, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Student Recreation Center
Free
The Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports will host an open house for faculty and staff at the new Student Recreation Center on Wednesday. Guided tours will be available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Self-guided tours with printed information flyers are available all day. In addition, any faculty or staff person may use the facility free for the entire day just by presenting their UofL ID at the check-in station. Locks, towels and lockers are provided.
Additional Information: John Smith, 852-6707.
9.) Why scholars should care about copyright and Open Access
Belknap: Oct. 21, 2 to 3p.m., Ekstrom Library, W104
HSC: Oct. 22, noon to 1 p.m., School of Nursing, Room K2006
Open Access (OA) refers to the worldwide movement to make scholarship widely available through toll-free strategies including discipline-specific, governmental, and institutional repositories (IRs). The “green OA” approach requires scholars to reexamine their historical relationship with publishers and encourages close scrutiny of who owns scholarship and how to ensure its broad dissemination by eliminating price and other access barriers. Managing copyright is central to providing OA.
Additional Information: Presenter Dwayne K. Buttler, Endowed for Scholarly Communication, University Libraries; 852-3128.
10.) Bookstore seeking 2015 spring semester textbook and course material orders
Required by October 31 to be compliant
Spring textbook and course material orders must be submitted to UofL’s official campus bookstore by Oct, 31 to assure compliance with the federal government Higher Education Opportunity Act. If a particular course does not have any course material, a notification to the official campus bookstore is still required.
Please visit the Faculty Resource tab to create your FacultyEnlight account and submit your book order today.
Additional Information: Cori Bibelhauser, 852-4926.
11.) Higher Education Administration MA and PhD information session scheduled
Nov. 6, 5:15 to 6:15 p.m., College of Education and Human Development, Room 100
Free
Already working in higher education but thinking about that next step in your career in university administration? Come to this session to learn more about the MA program, fully available in the evenings on campus or online. The PhD program is an evening program. Check out the website.
Additional Information: RSVP to Bridgette Pregliasco, 852-6204.
12.) Historic amateur films of Indiana and Kentucky showing
Oct. 21, noon, New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, 180 W. Spring St., New Albany, Indiana.
Free, but registration requested
Filson Historical Society curators Heather Stone and Aaron Rosenblum will present a highlight reel of 1920s and 1930s footage taken in Indiana and Kentucky, and discuss local film history and the Filson’s film collection.
Additional Information: For reservations or to request more information, call or visit the Filson Historical Society, 635-5083.
13.) A&S faculty author party scheduled
Oct. 23, 6 to 8 p.m., Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft
Free
Join the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society for a celebration to recognize 10 years of A&S faculty excellence in publishing and to introduce the new leadership of CCHS. Enjoy music and refreshments and learn about all our accomplished faculty.
Additional Information: Tracy Heightchew, 852-8977.
Seminars
14.) Chemical Engineering
Oct. 24, 2 to 3 p.m., Ernst Hall, room 310
Public, free
Pradeep Deshpande, professor emeritus of chemical engineering at UofL and president of Louisville-based Six Sigma and Advanced Controls, Inc., will discuss how to Achieve True Happiness Scientifically.” Deshpande will draw on his technical background in process control and six sigma, ancient Indian wisdom and the contributions of renowned Western scientists to propose his theory of World Transformation,a subset of which he considers to be true happiness.
Additional Information: James C. Watters, 852-0802.
Studies
15.) Pediatric constipation study
The UofL Kosair Charities Pediatric Clinical Research Unit is conducting a clinical research study to assess the efficacy and safety of an investigational drug used to treat constipation. Children 6 to 17 years of age who have been diagnosed with functional constipation and are able to swallow capsules may be eligible to participate. Patients may be compensated for time/travel associated with participation in the study. IRB# 14.0007
For more information, contact Jackie Perry, 629-5123, pager 620-0000.
Grand Rounds
16.) Endocrinology
Oct. 22, 4 p.m., Baxter II Research Building, lower level, Room 038
Please join us as Sara Watson, MD, UofL assistant professor of pediatrics, division of pediatric endocrinology, presents Precocious Puberty.
Additional Information: Kelly Galiette, 852-5237.
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