Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Oct. 22, 2014:
· PHOTOS: The Floss Walk raised money for the UofL Dental Hygiene program’s legacy fund. View here.
· PHOTOS: Winners of the 2014 Community Engagement Awards were honored Oct. 20. View here.
· PHOTOS: The 2014 Conn Legacy Society reception. View here.
· Scholar cites Ferguson in plea for ‘new culture of belonging.’ Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
UofL’s Women’s and Gender Studies department is celebrating its 40th anniversary today with a panel discussion at Ekstrom Library (see item No. 11 below). The first course at UofL specifically dedicated to the study of women was introduced here in 1973 when Lucy Freibert taught “Women in Literature.” Ann Allen then offered Women’s History. Today, UofL’s Women’s and Gender Studies department has had many firsts in Kentucky: first WGS department, first to offer a WGS major, first to establish an M.A. degree in WGS and it is the only department in the state to offer an LGBTQ minor.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Events
1.) Open forums on Ebola scheduled
We’ve Got You Covered
2.) Benefits Tip: For 2015, you must enroll in flexible spending and Get Healthy Now
Farmers Market
3.) Gray Street Farmers Market: appreciation party and apple/pear tastings
Arts
4.) One-act play links 1954 events in Louisville to 2014 events in Ferguson
5.) Magic and theatre under one roof
IT
6.) Blackboard to be upgraded to the April 2014 Release during the December holiday break
7.) University websites must upgrade to Plone 4 by December 23, 2014
Miscellaneous
8.) Street work later this week at HSC campus
9.) HERS nomination deadline is November 14
10.) Faculty: Learn how to guide the copy-and-paste generation
11.) Celebrate 40 years of WGS
12.) Sustainability Week wraps up in style
13.) Register to attend a Blackboard Collaborate virtual open house
14.) University Writing Center is here to help your students
15.) Submit your events to the Winterfest 2015 Calendar
16.) Academic conference on civilians and irregulars in the Civil War
Seminars
17.) Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology
18.) CGeMM Seminar
19.) Chemistry
20.) Biology
Talks
21.) Group or class seating reservations available for Anne Braden Memorial Lecture
22.) Kara Cooney of UCLA to speak, sign books
Grand Rounds
23.) Psychiatry
24.) Family and Geriatric Medicine
25.) Pediatrics
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Events
1.) Open forums on Ebola scheduled
Following the release of new UofL healthcare risk management guidelines and travel guidelines due to the Ebola outbreak, these open meetings will be held:
Healthcare risk management: Oct. 24, 7:30 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 4:30 p.m., Kosair Charities Clinical and Translational Research Building, 101/102
Healthcare risk management and travel guidelines: Oct. 27, noon to 1 p.m., Floyd Theatre and Oct. 28, 5 to 6 p.m., HSC Auditorium.
We’ve Got You Covered
2.) Benefits Tip: For 2015, you must enroll in flexible spending and Get Healthy Now
Even if you had an FSA or participated in Get Healthy Now in 2014, you must enroll again for 2015. Open Enrollment ends Friday, Oct. 31, at midnight. Go to the Open Enrollment website for information and to make your elections.
Farmers Market
3.) Gray Street Farmers Market: appreciation party and apple/pear tastings
Thursdays through Oct. 30, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., 400 block of E. Gray Street, rain or shine
Some items available today will include: apples, pears, pumpkins, tomatoes, kale, eggplant, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, onions, carrots, golden beets, Chinese okra, bitter melon, baby bok choy, granola, bread, raw honey, caramel granola bars, pumpkin-chocolate bread, cider doughnuts, stuffed pancakes, miso noodles, miso macaroni and stir-fried potato strips. Food truck options are Blackbeard Espresso Co., Holy Mole (tacos) and Jam Pan (jerk pork and chicken). Also today we’ll have the annual vendor/customer appreciation party, live music and a 20-minute Zumba session with Get Healthy Now.
Additional Information: www.facebook.com/UofLGSFM; Website.
Arts
4.) One-act play links 1954 events in Louisville to 2014 events in Ferguson
Oct. 24, 7 p.m., Brandeis School of Law, Allen Courtroom
Free, open to the public
Based on conversations with members of the Louisville community, court transcripts from Carl Braden’s sedition trial, and Anne Braden’s memoir, The Wall Between, this one-act play addresses issues of race, media, and policing to link events of 1954 in Louisville with events in Ferguson, Missouri, today. Directed by Amy Steiger. Co-sponsored by theatre arts, Brandeis School of Law and Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research.
Additional Information: Anne Braden Institute, 852-6142.
5.) Magic and theatre under one roof
October 23 to 26 8 p.m. Thrust Theatre, 2314 South Floyd St.
Free
Studio Theatre, a student-driven production company based out of Theatre Arts, presents Cody Clark: A Different Way of Thinking. Cody discovered his love for magic at age 11, after his parents discovered he had autism. Through stage magic and story, sleight-of-hand and journey of mind, Cody will show you the world through his eyes; and maybe, you’ll find that his way of thinking isn’t too different from yours.
Additional Information: studio.theatre2014@gmail.com.
IT
6.) Blackboard to be upgraded to the April 2014 Release during the December holiday break
Blackboard will be upgraded to the April 2014 release over winter break. Blackboard will be unavailable from 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, to 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22. This version will introduce several new features, fixes and design improvements. These are summarized at http://uofl.me/bb-whats-new-instructor.
Additional Information: To assist faculty and staff in preparing for the upgrade, the Blackboard support team can be reached at 852-8833 or via email at bbupport@louisville.edu.
7.) University websites must upgrade to Plone 4 by December 23, 2014
Departments have until Dec. 23 to rebuild their websites in the upgraded Plone 4 system. The new system features tripled speed, mobile-friendly design, Adobe Flash integration and more. Register for Plone 4 training here. IT’s Design & Printing now provides services for creating, editing or migrating your Plone website using an OCM-created theme. For more information contact Shelia Marable, assistant manager/web team Leader.
Miscellaneous
8.) Street work later this week at HSC campus
Street re-surfacing and pedestrian safety Improvement at HSC campus will begin later this week. As a component of the bridge project, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is resurfacing streets in the HSC campus area. The project includes the repaving of Preston Street from Main Street south to Brandeis Street, along with rebuilding existing curb cuts for handicap ramps to make them fully ADA compliant. UofL has received notification from the cabinet that preliminary work on Preston Street handicap ramps between Muhammad Ali Blvd and Chestnut Street could begin later this week and will require approximately five days to complete.
9.) HERS nomination deadline is November 14
President Ramsey and the Commission on the Status of Women will sponsor an attendee to one of the 2015 Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Institutes. Outstanding women faculty and/or administrators with a solid record of professional growth/responsibility, and a strong interest in campus administration are encouraged to review the institutes and apply for one that best fits individual circumstances. Submit nominations to Aleque M. Novesl.
Additional Information: Website.
10.) Faculty: Learn how to guide the copy-and-paste generation
Nov. 4, noon to 2 p.m., Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning
Join presenters Edna Ross, Samantha McClellan and Robert Detmering as they show and tell how they developed their own digital tools to promote critical thinking and information literacy in the classroom. Join your colleagues as session facilitators share their use of Blackboard modules and LibGuides, and invite discussion about ways to use these tools for your own courses. Lunch is served so pre-registration is required.
Additional Information: Website.
11.) Celebrate 40 years of WGS
Oct. 23, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Chao Auditorium
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Women’s and Gender Studies at UofL. A panel discussion with Ann Allen, history, professor emerita; Sydney Schultze, modern languages, professor emerita; Ed Segal, anthropology, professor emeritus and Jessie Potish Whitish, WGS MA 2014.
Additional Information: Nancy Theriot; Jan Rayburn, 852-8160.
12.) Sustainability Week wraps up in style
Sustainability Week rolls on today with the Gray St. Farmers Market (see above) and UofL Free Store in Unitas, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Things wrap up Friday with the Dialogue on Diversity Conference (8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Shelby Campus); EcoReps Lunch and Learn: Sustainable Events Planning (Noon, Ekstrom W210); Bluegrass Bioneers (5 to 11 p.m. Humanities 100); Farm to Table Dinner (7 p.m., Ville Grill); and Braden Sedition Trial Reenactment (7 p.m. Law School). And don’t miss Ying Kit Chan’s Deep Ecology art exhibit (11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily Cressman Center).
Additional Information: Full schedule for Sustainability Week.
13.) Register to attend a Blackboard Collaborate virtual open house
Nov. 6 or 7, 11 a.m. to noon; Nov. 11, 4 to 5 p.m. or 7 to 8 p.m.
Blackboard Collaborate is now available for free for all university faculty and staff. You can use this enterprise-wide teaching platform to interact with students in an online or face-to-face course, or to communicate with colleagues within or outside of the university. During the virtual open house you will be introduced to Collaborate, share video and audio, explore the electronic whiteboard, and more. Learn more and register.
14.) University Writing Center is here to help your students
The University Writing Center would like to remind you that our consultants are available to help your students with any writing project they are working on, at any stage of that project. Students are encouraged to make their own appointments online, but they can also call us at 852-2173 or visit our office in Ekstrom 312 to make appointments.We also have updated our Faculty Resources page where we provide information about how we support UofL faculty with their teaching and writing.
15.) Submit your events to the Winterfest 2015 Calendar
Submission deadline Nov. 17; Winterfest Jan. 7 to 19
First Year Initiatives seeks your event submissions for WinterFest 2015, which welcomes new and returning students to campus for the spring semester. If you want to submit events your office/dept./program is holding during WinterFest (Jan. 7 to 19) for inclusion in the event guide, please fill out the submission form: The deadline for submissions is Mon., Nov. 17.
Additional Information: Shelley Tewell, 852-3125.
16.) Academic conference on civilians and irregulars in the Civil War
Oct. 23, 5 p.m.; October 24-25, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Filson Historical Society, 1310 S. 3rd St., Louisville
Free for UofL faculty, staff and students; optional $10 lunch Friday and Saturday
This academic conference covers six themes: Guerrillas, the Naval War in the West, The War and its Aftermath in Kentucky, Codes and Conduct of War, Memory, and Justifying and Surviving Violence. Keynote speakers are Lee Anne Whites, Women and the Turn Toward Hard War: Putting the Female in Civilian and the Girl in Guerrilla and Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Time Will Tell: What We Can Learn about the Civil War from Modern Conflicts.
Additional Information: For a full schedule and to register, phone 635-5083 or visit www.filsonhistorical.org. The Filson Historical Society is a member of UofL’s Center for Arts and Culture Partnerships.
Seminars
17.) Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology
Oct. 23, 4 to 5 p.m. Baxter 1 Auditorium
Free
ASNB Fall Seminar Series presents Jennifer Noel, graduate student, ASNB, Transient Receptor Potential Cation CHannel Vanilliod 1 (TRPV1) Modulates Retinal Ganglion Cell Responses to Light.”
Additional Information: Matt Guido.
18.) CGeMM Seminar
Oct. 23, noon, Homberger Library, HSC-A, Rm 614
Martin Langanke, senior lecturer, systematic theology, Greifswald University, Germany. “Incidental Findings in Personalized Medicine,”
Additional Information: janice.burkett@louisville.edu.
19.) Chemistry
Oct. 24, 4 p.m., Chemistry Building, Room LL-16
Rigoberto Hernandez, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology will present Structure and dynamics of Janus, Striped and Course-Grained Particles.
Additional Information: Sherry Nalley, 852-6798.
20.) Biology
Oct. 24, noon, Chao Auditorium
Dr. Christine Curran, Northern Kentucky University, Polychlorinated Biphenyls: Decades of Disrupting Your Hormones and Mine.
Additional Information: Host: Dr. Cindy Corbitt.
Talks
21.) Group or class seating reservations available for Anne Braden Memorial Lecture
Nov. 11, 5:30 p.m., The Playhouse, 1911 S. Third St.
Free and open to the public
john a. powell, JD, professor of law, African American and ethnic studies at University of California-Berkeley, will discuss From Freedom Summer to Ferguson: Why We Need a New Culture of Belonging for the 8th annual Braden Lecture. To reserve seating for your class or for student groups of 10 or more, please contact Alexis Johnson 852-6142 by Thursday, Nov. 6.
Additional Information: Website.
22.) Kara Cooney of UCLA to speak, sign books
Oct. 23, 6 p.m., Chao Auditorium
Cooney is author of “The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt.” Presented by the Kentucky Society of the AIA.
Grand Rounds
23.) Psychiatry
Oct. 23, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ambulatory Care Building, Auditorium
Roberta Schaffner, MD, assistant professor, UofL Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,Veterans Affairs Medical Center, will present “Group Therapies in Clinical Practice.”
Additional Information: Christy Castle-Greenwell 588-4424.
24.) Family and Geriatric Medicine
Oct. 24, 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Bottigheimer Auditorium
Jonathan Pratt, MD, assistant professor, UofL Department of Neurological Surgery, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation presents Contemporary Pain Management. He will discuss what pain management is, who can they help, how do they help and current trends and hyperalgesia.
Additional Information: Callie Booth.
25.) Pediatrics
Oct. 24, 8 a.m. Norton Hospital, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Please join us for a pediatric grand rounds featuring Scott Myers, MD. Dr. Myers is an assistant professor of pediatrics, director of leukemia program and director of survivorship program at UofL. He will be presenting “Survivorship After Pediatric Cancer: Long-Term Follow-Up.”
Additional Information: Brittney Luckett, 629-8828.
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