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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Oct. 29, 2014:
· PHOTOS: Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor speaks to future entrepreneurs. View here.
· UofL Archives to recognize WHAS Radio project for Kentucky Archives Month. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
It must be time to break out the winter coat—the first snowflakes of the season are being forecast and the Gray Street Farmers Market is closing for the season. Today marks the final day of the GSFM for 2014, so make time to get out there, have some lunch and pick up a pumpkin or bag of freshly popped kettle corn. Look for the market to open again on May 14, 2015.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
Safety
1.) UofL Police Department warns against storing valuables in vehicles
We’ve Got You Covered!
2.) Benefits Tip: Waiving health insurance
Farmers Markets
3.) Gray Street Farmer’s Market celebrates final day of the season
IT
4.) Email archives and UofL homepage will be unavailable Friday evening
Miscellaneous
5.) Last call for summer camp information
6.) New faculty workshop focuses on building writing assignments
7.) HSC educational session on infectious disease, public health and ethics planned
Seminars
8.) Chemistry
Talks
9.) University of Amsterdam to discuss age group politics in Shakespeare’s ‘Henriad’
Grand Rounds
10.) Family and Geriatric Medicine
11.) Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health
12.) Orthopaedic Surgery
13.) Pediatrics
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
Safety
1.) UofL Police Department warns against storing valuables in vehicles
The Louisville Metro Police Department has reported a recent rash of car break-ins in the area. UofL Police advise the university community not to leave GPS units on your windshield or laptops and backpacks in your vehicle. ULPD also asks students, faculty and staff to report any suspicious activity to 852-6111.
We’ve Got You Covered!
2.) Benefits Tip: Waiving health insurance
If you waive health insurance, UofL automatically funds $175 per month for you in a Health Care Flexible Spending Account. If you wish to have funds designated to a dependent care account, you must elect a Dependent Care FSA. Otherwise, waiver funds automatically default to the Health Care Flexible Spending Account. Health Care and Dependent Care FSAs must be maintained separately. Funds cannot be transferred from one account to the other. Learn more at Chard Snyder. Open Enrollment ends tomorrow at midnight. Go to the Open Enrollment website for information and to make your elections.
Farmers Markets
3.) Gray Street Farmer’s Market celebrates final day of the season
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: pumpkins, several varieties of apples, kale, eggplant, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, onions, tomatoes, as well as apple butter, apple cider, cider doughnuts, Rimmers’ Honey Apple salsa, pumpkin chocolate bread, granola, bread, honey, caramel granola bars, pickles, jams and jellies. Mr. G’s Kettle Corn will be popping local Kentucky Proud Kettle Corn. Food trucks will be Blackbeard Espresso Co. and Holy Mole.
Additional Information: www.facebook.com/UofLGSFM; Website.
IT
4.) Email archives and UofL homepage will be unavailable Friday evening
Oct. 31, 10 p.m. to Nov. 1, 2 a.m.
Changes to the university’s Storage Area network and email servers will cause the UofL homepage and email archives to be unavailable during IT’s normal preventative maintenance (PM) period. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.
Additional Information: HelpDesk, 852-7997.
Miscellaneous
5.) Last call for summer camp information
Will your unit host summer camps for school-aged kids? We want to know so that we can promote them online and in a special pull-out section of the winter/spring issue of UofL Magazine. To list your camps, please complete the form available here. Deadline for inclusion in the magazine is Oct. 31.
Additional Information: Mark Holdener, 852-2264.
6.) New faculty workshop focuses on building writing assignments
Wednesdays November 5, 12, 19 and December 3, 9 to 11 a.m., Ekstrom Library Room W210
Join English professor Debra Journet for this four-part workshop, “Building a Writing Assignment.” Participants will receive expert assistance in how to plan and construct writing prompts and gain tools for evaluating and responding to student writing. Space is limited.
Additional Information: Learn more and register.
7.) HSC educational session on infectious disease, public health and ethics planned
Nov. 5, 1 to 3 p.m., medical school instructional building (B building), room 115
Students and faculty from the schools of medicine, nursing and public health are offering an educational session to discuss infectious disease, public health and ethics. Pizza will served; $1-$2 donation suggested and proceeds will go to send medical equipment to Sierra Leone via Supplies Over Seas.
Additional Information: Bethany Hodge.
Seminars
8.) Chemistry
Oct. 31, 4 p.m. Chemistry building, Room LL-16
Stanislav Groysman, PhD, Wayne State University, will present Synthesis of the Low-Coordinate Bis(Alkoxide) Metal Complexes and Their Reactivity in N-N bond Formation Reactions.
Additional Information: Sherry Nalley, 852-6798.
Talks
9.) University of Amsterdam to discuss age group politics in Shakespeare’s ‘Henriad’
Nov. 4, 6 p.m., Room 300, Humanities Building
Free, open to the public
Along with class, gender and similar socio-political categories, age constitutes entire groups of people with shared identities and concerns. One of these groups, Rudolph Glitz argues, is that of the Boar’s Head crowd in Shakespeare’s “Henriad” and that Hal’s companions are characterized not only by their ignoble antics and marked inferiority in rank, but also by their youth. Glitz is University Lecturer of English Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Additional Information: Website. Tracy Heightchew, 852-8977.
Grand Rounds
10.) Family and Geriatric Medicine
Oct. 21, 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Bottigheimer Auditorium
Neal Roberts, MD, UofL chief of rheumatology, and Alexey Fomin, MD, UofL rheumatology clinical fellow, presents “H&P Clues in Presentations of Vasculitis: Visual Flash Card Approach to Myths and Pearls.” They will recognize all four historical, four physical exam and four laboratory clues to office presentation of various types of vasculitis.
Additional Information: Callie Booth.
11.) Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health
Oct. 31, 1 to 2 p.m., Ambulatory Care Building Basement Auditorium
Please join us as Dr. Lynn Parker, GYN oncology director, presents Cervical Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment. She is with the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health at UofL School of Medicine.
Additional Information: Crystal Menear, 561-7463.
12.) Orthopaedic Surgery
Oct. 31, 6:45 to 7:45 a.m., Baxter I Research Building, auditorium, lower level
Please join the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery as we welcome L. Daniel Wurtz, MD, associate professor, orthopaedic surgery, Indiana University, IU Health. Dr. Wurtz will discuss Advances in Musculoskeletal Oncology.
Additional Information: Monica Welsh, 852-6902.
13.) Pediatrics
Oct. 31, 8 a.m., Norton Hospital, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Please join us for on “Ebola – The 21st Century Plague” featuring George C. Rodgers, Jr., MD, PhD, Tania Condurache, MD, MS, Kyle B. Brothers, MD, and Kristina Bryant, MD. Rodgers et al will be explaining the modes of transmission and treatment options of Ebola, public health implications, and the social and cultural implications of the Ebola epidemic and public health response.
Additional Information: Brittney Luckett, 629-8828.
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