Arts & Sciences

Arts & Sciences

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...

Three UofL students headed to India as Critical Language Scholars

Out of the 14 students nationwide chosen as Critical Language Scholars to study Bangla in Kolkata, India, three are from UofL.  Jeanelle Sears, Emily Cousins...

Forty years and counting: Butterfly tally set for July 1 in Oldham County

 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Four decades later a dedicated group of nature lovers still gathers annually to contribute to the national butterfly census – and...
David Charles, Ph.D., Jacquelyn Graven, Psy.D., and Aaron Levinsky, Psy.D.

Beer with a Scientist: How to work less and play more

Wouldn’t life be great if we could just play all the time? Of course, few of us can simply abandon our work, but there are...