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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Sept. 23, 2015:
· UofL celebrates the photographic arts with several exhibitions. Read more.
· Enjoy two great opportunities to hear world class music this weekend. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, and the UofL men’s soccer program is hosting Hispanic Heritage Night during its home game against ACC foe N.C. State on Friday at 7 p.m. at Lynn Stadium. During the match, the soccer program, which features six players with Hispanic heritage, will recognize the UofL Hispanic Latino Faculty and Staff Association. For more information, click here.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
1.) Gray Street: Tomato pies, blueberry lavender lemon glaze scones
2.) Belknap: Come out for Farmers Rock!
3.) Kentucky Author Forum features John Irving
4.) Missed getting your flu shot on campus?
5.) The happiest happy hour: Get Healthy Now’s Cardio Kick & Sculpt
6.) MPH Information Session – HSC
7.) It’s Your Planet- Love It! Girl Scouts Workshops
8.) Green Tip: Special Carpool Parking Permits – Rideshare with Zimride!
9.) Diálogos: Miguel Alvear
10.) EpiHour
11.) Conversation with artist David Iacovazzi-Pau
12.) Brown & Williamson Distinguished Speaker Seminar
13.) Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology
14.) Pulmonary
15.) Orthopaedic Surgery
16.) Pediatrics
17.) Family Medicine
18.) Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health
19.) Research study for women who have experienced recent miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
1.) Gray Street: Tomato pies, blueberry lavender lemon glaze scones
Thursdays through Oct. 29, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., 400 block of E. Gray St.
Some items available today will include: Tomato pies, whole grain breads, jams, corn, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, beets, cabbage, onions, cucumbers, okra, bell peppers, hot peppers, green beans, apples, potatoes, apple chips, kettle corn and homemade soaps and lotions. Also Louisville Pure Tap will be on hand. Lunch trucks: Sweet ‘N Savory and V Grits.
Additional Information: Facebook page. Website.
2.) Belknap: Come out for Farmers Rock!
Thursdays through Oct. 15, 3:30 to 6 p.m., 3rd and Brandeis next to the Ville Grill.
Some items available today will include: Asian pears, apples, corn, green beans, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, onions, purple hull peas, apple chips, apple butter, lamb sausage, chicken, pork, eggs, homemade breads and baked goods, honey, popcorn and lemon shake-ups. Also, toxin-free home and personal-use products, homemade wood products (reclaimed wood items), annual plants, garden accessories and markers. Stop by as the market partners with Campus Housing for the season’s big event! We will have a deejay, dancing groups and raffles! Additional Information: Facebook page.
3.) Kentucky Author Forum features John Irving
Nov. 10, 5 p.m., Kentucky Center
Prices vary
Tickets are on sale now for author John Irving at the Kentucky Author Forum. Irving’s “The Avenue of Mysteries” is his 14th novel. It returns to themes that have established Irving as one of our most admired writers: fate and memory. Interviewer TBA.
Additional Information: Tickets at Kentucky Center Box Office, www.kentuckycenter.org, 584-7777.
Health and Wellness
4.) Missed getting your flu shot on campus?
Flu shots will continue to be given at both Campus Health clinics throughout the fall semester. Flu shots are free to students, faculty, and staff ($5 for retirees). For Campus Health locations/hours and to download the consent form, click here.
5.) The happiest happy hour: Get Healthy Now’s Cardio Kick & Sculpt
Fridays 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym
Free for GHN Wellness Center members
Kick start your weekend with a healthy, happy hour routine. Join GHN for an interval training class that incorporates of cardio, kickboxing, and sculpting moves using weights. An action-packed workout that improves strength, muscle tone and endurance. It’s an intense workout to end your week and start the weekend off right! All moves are modifiable based on fitness level.
Additional Information: Website; ghn@louisville.edu.
6.) MPH Information Session – HSC
Oct. 13, noon to 1 p.m., School of Public Health, Room 103
Free session and free lunch for those who RSVP
The School of Public Health and Information Sciences will host an Information Session to allow undergraduate, graduate, professional and medical students to learn what the Master of Public Health program has to offer in Bioinformatics & Biostatistics, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Epidemiology & Population Health, Health Management & System Sciences, and Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences. RSVP by Friday, 10/9/15.
Additional Information: sphismph@louisville.edu; 852-6263.
7.) It’s Your Planet- Love It! Girl Scouts Workshops
Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium
The planetarium offers workshops designed to support the “It’s Your Planet – Love It” Journey series. In October, we have “Energy Responsibility” for Juniors (10/10) and “Breathe” for Cadettes (10/17). And, best of all, UofL affiliates get a SPECIAL RATE of $12/scout and $3/adult (normally $15/$5). Details and registration are on our website. Space is limited so sign up now!
Additional Information: 852-6665, planet@louisville.edu.
8.) Green Tip: Special Carpool Parking Permits – Rideshare with Zimride!
Did you know that UofL offers special carpool parking permits (applicable to any color permit at no extra cost) that come with 20 daily parking passes/year for all members. Find/offer rides with Zimride, UofL’s private rideshare network for faculty, staff & students. Whether it’s your daily commute, a conference, or any other event, ridesharing saves both you & UofL money while cutting pollution by reducing traffic. Give yourself a raise! Great minds ride together at zimride.com/louisville
Additional Information: Full details on all your UofL Transportation Alternatives, here.
9.) Diálogos: Miguel Alvear
September 24, noon, Ekstrom Library, W210
Free
Diálogos hosts fun, food-fueled discussions of some great works of literature and philosophical essays by leading Latin American thinkers. This week, we welcome Ecuadoran filmmaker and artist Miguel Alvear.
Additional Information: Avery Kolers or Manuel F. Medina or click here.
10.) EpiHour
Sept. 24, noon to 1 p.m., School of Public Health & Information Sciences, Room 103
Free
Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH, an epidemiologist and CEO of Trajectory Healthcare, LLC, will present: Broken Down by Age and Sex: Sorted Tales from an Entrepreneurial Epidemiologist.
Additional Information: Robin Newlon, 852-3003.
11.) Conversation with artist David Iacovazzi-Pau
Sept. 26, 1 to 3 p.m., Carnegie Center for Art and History, 201 East Spring Street, New Albany, Indiana
Free for UofL faculty, staff and students
The artist will be available for informal conversation about his exhibition, David Iacovazzi-Pau: Paintings and Works on Paper. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition of portraits. September 26 is the last day of the show.
Additional Information: Laura Wilkins.
12.) Brown & Williamson Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Sept. 25 4 p.m., Chemistry Building, Room LL-16
Free, public, faculty & staff
Luis Echegoyen, PhD, will present Regioselective Bis-Additions to Empty and Endohedral Clusterfullerenes: Tether or Cluster Control?
Additional information: Sherry Nalley, 852-6798.
13.) Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology
Sept. 24, 4 to 5 p.m., Baxter Auditorium
Free
ASNB Fall Seminar Series Presents: Charles Hubscher, PhD, professor, department of ASNB, Exercise Training Improves Urinary Function After Spinal Cord Injury.
Additional Information: Matt Guido, 852-6227.
Grand Rounds
14.) Pulmonary
Sept. 25, noon to 1 p.m., 3rd floor, A3R40 Ambulatory Care Building
For the first Pulmonary Grand Rounds of the 2015-16 academic year, we would like to welcome Dr. Hannah Mannem, from UPMC MUH NW, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her topic will be: The Short End of the Stick: Telomeropathies in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and the Impact in Lung Transplantation. This will be held in the Pulmonary Conference Room.
Additional Information: Becky Highbaugh, 852-5841.
15.) Orthopaedic Surgery
Sept. 25, 6:45 to 7:45 a.m., Baxter I Research Building, auditorium, lower level
The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery welcomes R. Todd Hockenbury, MD, assistant clinical professor, UofL. Dr. Hockenbury will lecture on Ankle Arthritis.
Additional Information: Monica Welsh, 852-6902.
16.) Pediatrics
Sept. 25, 8 a.m., Norton Hospital, 2nd Floor Auditorium
This Friday, please join us for the annual Mental Health Forum featuring James J. Hudziak, MD. Hudziak is a professor of psychiatry, medicine, pediatrics and communication sciences and disorders and he is the director of the Vermont Center for Children, Youth, and Families and the Division of Child Psychiatry. He will be presenting “The Vermont Family Based Approach: Health Care Reform Starting with Kids.”
Additional Information: Brittney Luckett, 629-8828.
17.) Family Medicine
Sept. 25, 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Jewish Hospital Bottigheimer Auditorium
Toyosi Morgan, MD, medical director, Humana, will present, Why Would a Family Physician Work for Humana. Dr. Morgan will assess the functional state of patients and primary care providers in the current healthcare system. She will identify opportunities to participate in health system transformation. She will discuss how to formulate an optimal state of primary health care. CME Category I is available for both AAFP & ACCME accreditation.
Additional Information: Mickie Mulloy, 852-0797.
18.) Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health
Sept. 25, 1 to 2 p.m., Ambulatory Care Building-Basement Auditorium
Please join us Friday as Drs. Daniel Metzinger and Sarah Todd with our Gyn Oncology Division discuss Updates on the New da Vinci Xi Surgical Robot. They will review the new da Vinci Firefly and discuss docking techniques.
Additional Information: Crystal Menear, 561-7463.
Studies
19.) Research study for women who have experienced recent miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death
We have developed a clinical survey that may help doctors and nurses better identify parents who need additional followup for intense grief after miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death. This study will simplify its scoring system so it can be widely used. We are looking for participants who are women over age 18 and have had a pregnancy loss in the last eight weeks. Research involves taking two surveys now and again in three months; takes 15-20 minutes to complete. IRB#14.1176
Additional Information: Marianne H. Hutti, 852-6458.
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