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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Oct. 21, 2014:
· PHOTOS: Fraternities and sororities step into Homecoming Week. View here.
· Career-changers can earn nursing master’s in new UofL program. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
It’s Campus Sustainability Week! One green effort at UofL is the use of steam cleaners around campus to disinfect and scrub restrooms, mop hard surface floors and even do windows. There are no chemicals, perfumes or irritants for the building users and there is no waste byproduct to discard.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
We’ve Got You Covered
1.) HSC benefits fair continues today
Today
2.) Celebrate Campus Sustainability Day
Arts
3.) ‘Dracula’ tickets available for Thursday
Extra, Extra
4.) Health Sciences Center Diversity newsletter available
Miscellaneous
5.) CORRECTION: Partial solar eclipse won’t be visible at UofL
6.) Provost accepting online nominations for advising awards
7.) Special sale on Homecoming t-shirts
8.) Applications Lewis scholarships and fellowships in Latin American and Iberian Studies available
Seminars
9.) Oral Biology 605: Oral Health Seminar
10.) Microbiology and Immunology Seminar
11.) Biochemistry
12.) Bioinrmatics Journal Club Seminar
Talks
13.) Asia in Focus speaker to discuss combatting terrorism in Malacca Strait
Grand Rounds
14.) Medicine
15.) Cardiovascular Medicine
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
We’ve Got You Covered
1.) HSC benefits fair continues today
Oct. 22, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., CTR Building
Today is the last day for the HSC benefits fair. Meet with a benefit vendor and your benefits team for one-on-one consultation. 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 hand to answer questions and help you navigate through the Open Enrollment process. The next benefits fair will be Oct. 28 and 29 in the Human Resources Building, 1980 Arthur St. Benefits Open Enrollment ends Friday, October 31, at midnight. Go to the Open Enrollment website for information and to make your elections.
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2.) Celebrate Campus Sustainability Day
Oct. 22, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Humanities Quad and College of Business
Learn more, get involved and live green at the Campus Sustainability Day fair on the Quad today! Bring old cell phones and mobile devices for recycling. Donate shoes to WaterStep. Recycle documents, diskettes and videotapes at the Shred-It truck outside College of Business. Sustainability Week continues tomorrow with the Gray St. Farmers’ Market 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the UofL Free Store open in Unitas 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Check out Ying Kit Chan’s Deep Ecology exhibit 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily at UofL’s Cressman Center (100 E Main).
Additional Information: Full schedule for Sustainability Week.
Arts
3.) ‘Dracula’ tickets available for Thursday
Oct. 23
$50
The vampire hunt is on! Experience this Halloween tradition that drips with suspense at UofL Alumni Association’s night at “Dracula.” A limited number of tickets are available for $50 each for the show on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Additional Information: Purchase tickets at www.uoflalumni.org/dracula14. Questions? Donna O’Donnell, 852-6962.
Extra, Extra
4.) Health Sciences Center Diversity newsletter available
Check out the October edition of the Health Sciences Center Celebrating Diversity Newsletter.
Additional Information: hscodi@louisville.edu.
Miscellaneous
5.) CORRECTION: Partial solar eclipse won’t be visible at UofL
Oct. 23, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium
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.
6.) Provost accepting online nominations for advising awards
Through Nov. 21, the Office of the University Provost is accepting nominations for the 26th Annual Provost’s Awards for Exemplary Advising. Nominations/letters of support can be submitted online. Eligible for nomination are full-time faculty members whose primary advising responsibility is advising undergraduate students and professional advisors whose primary and current job responsibility is assigned to the academic advisement of undergraduate students.
Additional Information: Submit a nomination/letter of support here.
7.) Special sale on Homecoming t-shirts
Remaining Homecoming 2014 long-sleeved t-shirts are on sale: one for $10 or two for $15. Purchase with cash, credit card or check at the Alumni Association, University Club 2nd floor. Start your Christmas shopping early and get this limited-edition item today! View the shirt at www.uoflalumni.org/homecoming14.
Additional Information: Donna O’Donnell, 852-6962.
8.) Applications Lewis scholarships and fellowships in Latin American and Iberian Studies available
304 Stevenson Hall; Deadline Nov. 20.
The Richard and Constance Lewis Fellowships and Scholarships in Latin American and Iberian Studies provide funds for faculty development for the purpose of enhancing the knowledge of and interest in Latin American and Iberian subjects at UofL, as well as funds to support student study abroad in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Deadline: Nov. 20.
Additional Information: Rhonda Buchanan, 852-2034. Website.
Seminars
9.) Oral Biology 605: Oral Health Seminar
Oct. 28, noon to 1 p.m., Dental School, Room 119
Dr. Salomon Amar, professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Director of the Center for Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutics, Boston University, will deliver a seminar titled “Obesity Is Bacteria’s Little Helper.”
Additional Information: g0buon01@louisville.edu.
10.) Microbiology and Immunology Seminar
Oct. 23, noon to 1 p.m., Baxter II, Room 038
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series presents, “Single Cell Transcriptome-based Dissection of Lineage Fate Decision in Myelopoiesis,” by H. Leighton (Lee) Grimes, PhD, professor, Division of Immunobiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; director, Program in Cancer Pathology of the Divisions of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology and Pathology.
Additional Information: Carolyn Burton, 852-6208.
11.) Biochemistry
Oct. 22, noon, HSC-A, Homberger Library, Room 614
Kaitlyn Wendland Shields, BMB graduate student: “ADAM10 alpha-secretase Mutations: Roles in the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease.”
Additional Information: janice.burkett@louisville.edu.
12.) Bioinrmatics Journal Club Seminar
Oct. 22, noon to 1 p.m., CTR Building, Room 124
KBRIN (Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network) is hosting Jinze Liu, associate professor of computer science, University of Kentucky. She will discuss “Unlocking the transcriptome with RNA-seq: a computational framework.” Plan to attend.
Additional Information: Website.
Talks
13.) Asia in Focus speaker to discuss combatting terrorism in Malacca Strait
Oct. 23, 1 to 2 p.m., Ekstrom Library, Room W104
Free
The Center for Asian Democracy’s next Asia in Focus speaker will be Alice Ba, associate professor of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware, giving a talk on “Combating Terrorism and Piracy at Sea: The Politics of Regime Building in the Malacca Strait.”
Additional Information: Website; 852-2667; cad@louisville.edu.
Grand Rounds
14.) Medicine
Oct. 23, 8 a.m., Ambulatory Care Building auditorium
Department of Medicine Grand Rounds features Robert M. Kotloff, MD, chairman, Department of Pulmonary Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, and professor of medicine emeritus, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kotloff will present Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: A Tale of a Mother, a Child, and an Orphan Disease, focusing on understanding clinical/radiographic manifestations of LAM and cystic lung disease, molecular pathogenesis of LAM leading to targeted drug development and current treatment options.
Additional Information: Jason Puckett, 852-1825.
15.) Cardiovascular Medicine
Oct. 22, noon to 1 p.m., Rudd Heart and Lung Institute, top floor, Great Halls I & II
Elizabeth Murphy, PhD, will present “Mechanisms of Cell Death and Cardioprotection.” Murphy is the head of cardiac physiology for National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at NIH/NHLBI, Bethesda, Maryland.
Additional Information: Please contact Pamela Montgomery, 852-1162.
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