Arts & Sciences

Arts & Sciences

Melissa Shepherd, costume shop coordinator and adjunct professor.  

Theatre Arts Department sponsors textile competition at Kentucky State Fair

The Kentucky State Fair has once again opened its gates under the sweltering August sun and a strong UofL presence can be found throughout...

Hite photography professor plans major eclipse exhibition

As the eclipse unfolds Monday, one UofL professor will have her camera lens trained to the skies to capture it in a unique way. Mary...

Artful geography: Hite Art Institute shows professor’s work exploring place

When Meena Khalili moved to Louisville a little over a year ago to start her job as an assistant professor of design at Hite...
Dr. Kaila Story is the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality Studies

Passion for learning and social change drives UofL professor

The University of Louisville was the first school in the South to offer an LGBTQ Studies minor, which was developed in 2009 by Dr....
UofL hosts more than 20 academic, research and learning camps for kids each summer.

UofL hosts more than 20 academic, research and learning summer camps

“We’re doing ours on how women can be as important as boys,” said 12-year-old Chloe Coleman, referencing a video project she’s working on with...

Hite Art Institute exhibition showcases work of new studio art faculty

Hite Art Institute presents “New Recruits,” an exhibition of art and design by its newest studio art faculty: Kyoungmee Kate Byun, Tiffany Calvert, Meena Khalili, Margaret Leininger and Rachel Singel.
Sidney Edwards playing Rose, an enslaved distiller at Locust Grove

UofL Theatre Arts student works with Locust Grove to bring story of enslaved distiller...

Research reveals some 200 years ago, enslaved African American women likely would have tended a distillery at Locust Grove, one of Louisville’s largest, most...

Designing Woman

Alumna takes costuming talents from backstage at UofL to Hollywood backlots Everyone has heard the term “pounding the pavement”. Little did Jessi Eichberger, 11A,...
A group of UofL students, faculty and staff visited Croatia in May as part of the International Service Learning Program.

UofL professor reflects on ISLP trip to Croatia

In May, 22 students and five faculty/staff headed to Sisak, Croatia, to work with high school students as part of UofL's International Service Learning...
Lee Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut with fox subjects

UofL researcher: ‘How to tame a fox … and build a dog’

Take adorable, furry creatures involved in revolutionary scientific research, add soviet-era politics and intrigue, set them in the often brutal -35° winters of Siberia...