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The Trager Institute and Louisville leaders

University of Louisville recognized for exemplary community engagement project

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has recognized the University of Louisville for its exemplary community engagement project Age-Friendly Louisville, a partnership of UofL’s Trager Institute, Metro Louisville, AARP and the Kentuckiana...
From left to right: Ghadir Habeeb, Fatima Al Khafaji and Lashonda Masden. Diamond Moore not pictured.

Where to eat, where to study and more Student leaders share their best tips...

Every fall, thousands of new students step onto the University of Louisville’s campus for the first time. Whether an incoming freshman or a returning, transfer...
Ophthalmology Professor Richard Eiferman

Ophthalmology professor earns MBA and wins “Shark Tank” contest

University of Louisville Ophthalmology professor and lifelong learner Richard Eiferman recently launched a new and unexpected chapter in his career prompted by an unlikely...
Study team members Kavitha Yaddanapudi, associate professor of surgery (center), with co-first authors Omar Sarkar, UofL graduate student, (left) and Howard Donninger, UofL assistant professor (right). UofL photo.

UofL research shows existing drug improves cancer immunotherapy effectiveness

Cancer patients may have a better chance of recovery thanks to a discovery by a research team at the University of Louisville. In a...
UofL engineering researcher Cindy Harnett, left, with Alli Truttmann of Wicked Sheets

UofL research-backed startups land $1.2 million in funding

Three University of Louisville research-backed startups have grants totaling $1.2 million to fund development of technologies aimed at saving and improving lives. The companies have...
UofL faculty mentors and the medical students taking part in the Winn CIPP program.

Medical students train at School of Medicine to increase diversity in clinical trials Summer...

Four students from other U.S. medical schools spent six weeks at the UofL School of Medicine this summer participating in a service-learning externship designed...
Craig McClain, M.D., right, with Matthew Cave, M.D., liver researcher and H&T COBRE core director, center, and Jamie Young, Ph.D., using equipment known as the NanoDrop instrument to analyze RNA and DNA samples.

UofL research shows gut bacteria can lessen alcohol use and liver damage

At the University of Louisville, researchers are discovering ways to use nutrition to reduce organ injury from alcohol use disorder. Science has shown that bacteria,...
Jeff Wafford walking on runway between UPS planes

The full package Metropolitan College partnership between UPS, local higher education celebrates a quarter-century...

Back in the late 1990s, UPS’s Louisville air hub, known today as Worldport, was wrestling with a significant problem. Needing employees round-the-clock, the company...
UofL researchers announced $6.1 million funding to expand understanding of immune dysregulation. Left to right: Jeffrey Bumpous, Jason Smith, Sean Clifford, Jiapeng Huang, Kenneth McLeish, Jun Yan, Toni Ganzel and Kevin Gardner

Taming a frenzied immune system UofL receives $6.1 million to study immune dysregulation discovered...

Researchers at the University of Louisville have received $5.8 million in two grants from the National Institutes of Health to expand their work to...
High school students working with mentor

High school students experience simulated public health crisis at UofL, Morehead State

An April program at the University of Louisville served as the pilot program on public health crises for a simulation to be held at...