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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Sept. 28, 2015:
· Meet UofL’s 2015-2016 Army War College Fellow. Read more.
· Doctor of Nursing Practice to launch in 2016. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
In March 1967, an educational consulting firm recommended that the universities of Louisville and Kentucky become “sister” schools under one board and one president. The school would have been called the “Commonwealth University of Kentucky.”
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
1.) Last chance: Strategies for challenging students’ misconceptions
2.) Still need a flu shot?
3.) Heads up! Important announcement from Get Healthy Now
4.) Free depression screenings in October
5.) Poet Frank X Walker to read in the Axton Reading Series
6.) Webinar: How to write an effective data management plan–What NIH reviewers want to see
7.) KBRIN Bioinformatics Journal Club meeting
8.) Biochemistry Seminar
9.) Colloquium with Western Kentucky University physicist
10.) Cardiovascular Medicine: 22nd Annual Leonard Leight Lecture
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
1.) Last chance: Strategies for challenging students’ misconceptions
Oct. 2, noon to 1 p.m. (note: lunch will be available at 11:30 a.m. The presenter will stay an extra half hour for Q&A until 1:30 p.m.), Delphi Center, Ekstrom Library
Have you noticed that students often bring faulty mental models and disciplinary misinformation to your classroom? New information alone will not correct misconceptions, so educators need tools for deliberately addressing these issues. Dr. Edna Ross will share the intellectual traits from the Paul-Elder framework of critical thinking as a tool students can use for thinking about college, your discipline and about their daily lives in more cognitively complex ways.
Additional Information: Lunch is served, so pre-registration is required. For more information and to register click here.
Health and Wellness
2.) Still need a flu shot?
Sept. 30, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Law School, 1st Floor Lobby
Free
Did you miss getting your flu shot on the Belknap campus? It’s not too late! Free flu shots for students, faculty and staff will be available today in the School of Law lobby on the first floor, outside of the administrative offices. Get a flu shot and get a treat! For fastest service, complete your consent form online at www.louisville.edu/campushealth.
3.) Heads up! Important announcement from Get Healthy Now
The personalized e-health portal that provides access to the online Health Assessment and other wellness-tracking tools will retire on Oct. 1. The newly enhanced e-health portal will be launched during 2016 Open Enrollment. Although previously completed Health Assessment reports can be requested, all other wellness-tracking tools and data will no longer be available. If you want to save this information, log into your personal e-health portal and download the information for future access. Instructions here.
4.) Free depression screenings in October
Oct. 8, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Davidson Hall, Suite 210
Free
The Psychological Services Center will be giving free screenings as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. Please call for more information or to schedule.
Additional Information: Psychological Services Center (open M-Th), 852-6782.
5.) Poet Frank X Walker to read in the Axton Reading Series
Oct. 8, 7:30 to 9 p.m., Shumaker Research Building, Room 139
Free
Multidisciplinary artist and recent Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker is a professor in the departments of English and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. He will read from his poetry as part of the Axton Visiting Writers Series in the English department.
Additional Information: Kiki Petrosino.
6.) Webinar: How to write an effective data management plan–What NIH reviewers want to see
Sept. 30, 2 to 3 p.m., 2035, K-Wing
Free
During this webinar, you will learn what counts as data, and understand the agencies’ expectations and requirements for the data management plan. The presenter will cover how to think about managing your data before you begin your proposed research to insure usability, long-run preservation and access. You will get the guidelines on funding the plan and examine model data management plans and processes to create them. This is not hard but it is a requirement for a competitive proposal.
Additional Information: Carla Jones, 852-2454; website.
7.) KBRIN Bioinformatics Journal Club meeting
Sept. 30, noon to 1 p.m., Clinical Translational Research Building, Room 124
Free
Please join us as Xiao Li, a member of the KBRIN Bioinformatics Core, presents our next paper for discussion, Mapping Splicing Quantitative Trait Loci in RNA-Seq. All interested individuals are welcome to attend. Please contact us if you would like to have your name added to our email list.
Additional Information: julia.chariker@louisville.edu; b.harrison@louisville.edu
8.) Biochemistry Seminar
Sept. 30, noon, Homberger Library, HSC-A, Rm 614
Jon Faughn, BMG graduate student: “The Impact of Lifestyle Choices on Epigenetic Patterning.”
Additional Information: janice.burkett@louisville.edu
9.) Colloquium with Western Kentucky University physicist
Oct. 2, 3 p.m., Natural Science Room 112
The department of physics and astronomy will host Professor Ali Oguz Er presenting Various Uses of Lasers in Thin Film Deposition, Nanoscale Heat Transport in Solids, Photodeactivation of Pathogenic Bacteria and Viruses in Human Blood, and Quantum Control Experiments.
Additional Information: Website.
Grand Rounds
10.) Cardiovascular Medicine: 22nd Annual Leonard Leight Lecture
Sept. 30, noon, Jewish Hospital, Rudd Heart and Lung Center – Top Floor
Free
The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine welcomes Robert Harrington, MD, chairman, department of medicine, Stanford University. Dr. Harrington will present Cardiovascular Clinical Research in the U.S.: Realities, Challenges, and Opportunities.
Additional Information: Monica Sivori, 852-1162; website.
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