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Here’s what was posted to UofL Today on Sept. 4, 2015:
· UofL named one of the Top 25 Healthiest Colleges in U.S. Read more.
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DID YOU KNOW?
For the first time in more than 50 years, UofL’s Margaret Bridwell Art Library is allowing undergraduates to check out books. The library houses more than 90,000 books on art, design and architecture. Read more about the change here.
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Campus-Submitted Announcement List
1.) Collect meaningful data to inform what you teach
2.) Get Healthy Now’s Fall specialty class schedule online
3.) University Writing Center services available
4.) Retirement workshop scheduled
5.) UofL Better Breathers Club meeting date changed
6.) Make a suggestion for the next Book-in-Common
7.) Lung cancer risk reduction study
8.) Evidence-based transgender medicine
9.) Endocrinology
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Campus-Submitted Announcements
1.) Collect meaningful data to inform what you teach
Sept. 24 and Oct. 29, noon to 1 p.m. (note: lunch will be available at 11:30 a.m.), Delphi Center, Ekstrom Library
Join Drs. Marie Kendall Brown and Sara Fulmer in this two-part session as they teach you the fundamentals of the research-based practice called “Mid-Semester Feedback” (MSF). MSFs are short feedback sessions you conduct with your students to gather formative feedback about student learning, attitudes and experiences for the purpose of informing mid-stream course adjustments. Lunch is served so pre-registration is required.
Additional Information: More information and to register.
Health and Wellness
2.) Get Healthy Now’s Fall specialty class schedule online
Monday through Thursday, noon to 12:50 p.m., 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Get Healthy Now Wellness Center at Humana Gym
Sign up before September 30 for only $35
You asked, we listened! Check out GHN’s new Fall Specialty Class Schedule, which includes two new offerings: Core Fusion and PiYo! Sign up during the month of September and pay only $35 for an entire semester of unlimited access to top-notch specialty classes. Help us build interest in these offerings by bringing a colleague/spouse/QA to join for your favorite class! Try out something new … your best self starts here! First class is always free!
Additional Information: ghn@louisville.edu; 852-7755.
3.) University Writing Center services available
Ekstrom Library, 312 & 120, HSC Instructional Building, 120
We are available for individual consultations for any students, faculty and staff. We provide feedback on any type of writing at any point in the writing process. We also visit classes or events at your request. You can request a quick presentation about our services or a workshop. Examples of workshop topics are: getting started; citing sources; integrating sources; constructing a thesis statement; and writing the literature review. To request class visit, please complete our online form.
4.) Retirement workshop scheduled
Sept. 25, 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., College of Business, Room 336
Free
Register now to attend a two-hour retirement workshop sponsored by the School of Accountancy and presented by faculty member and certified financial planner Sheila Johnston, CPA. Topics include discussion of UofL options, amounts needed for retirement, basic retirement issues and much more.
Additional Information: Sheila Johnston, 852-4820.
5.) UofL Better Breathers Club meeting date changed
Sept. 9, 1 to 3 p.m., UofL Outpatient Center, Room 120
Free
Please join us for an ice cream social, a patient guest speaker and Dr. Ralph Perez discussing the High Resolution CT Scan in Pulmonary Fibrosis and COPD. Original date for the Better Breathers Meeting was Sept 10.
Additional Information: Dena Shofner, 852-7632.
6.) Make a suggestion for the next Book-in-Common
The Book-in-Common Selection Committee will soon begin the process of selecting the text for the 2016-17 program. Do you have a suggestion for next year’s Book-in-Common? Please share it with us! Go to louisville.edu/firstyear/book-in-common/suggest-a-book for more information on the criteria used to select the text and to fill out the suggestion form. We look forward to hearing your ideas!
7.) Lung cancer risk reduction study
Eligible participants are invited to test their homes for radon and secondhand smoke for free. If you own a single-family home, are 21 years of age or older, and you or a member of your household smokes cigarettes, cigars or pipes, you may be eligible to participate in a research study on lung cancer risk reduction. Please follow the link to see if you are eligible. Research participants will be compensated for taking part in the research study.
Additional Information: UKFRESH@LSV.UKY.EDU; 859-323-4587; IRB# 14.1266
8.) Evidence-based transgender medicine
Sept. 11, noon to 1 p.m., Kornhauser Auditorium
Dr. Henry Ng, president of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association and founder and director of the Pride Clinic in Clevelend, Ohio, will present the most up-to-date, evidence-based recommendations for the care of transgender patients, such as prescription and maintenance of cross-sex hormones, surgical options, informed consent guidelines and working with mental health professionals seeing your patient.
Additional Information: CME credit offered. Lunch provided, to RSVP, click here.
9.) Endocrinology
Sept. 9, 4 p.m., Baxter II Research Building, lower level, Room 038
Please join us as Stephen J. Winters, MD, chief, division of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes, UofL, presents Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism” an update on pathogenesis and management strategies.
Additional Information: Kelly Galiette, 852-5237.
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