Monday Memo February 2, 2015

Announcements

New Monday Memo form!

We’ve created a new Monday Memo submission form to make creating and tracking announcements easier for everyone. Please submit future announcements via uofl.me/as-mmform.

2 faculty photo sessions

Are you in need of professional looking photo headshot that is not 20 years old? The A&S Dean’s Office is hosting 2 photo sessions this Wednesday and Thursday. Sign up to get your new headshot now.

A&S stock photo portfolio

The Dean’s Office creating and building a portfolio of A&S stock photos for use on the web and in print. We need pictures of faculty, students and staff teaching, learning, serving and creating knowledge. Know of a particularly good photo opp? Let us know at asadvance@louisville.edu.

Got tickets?

If you would like the chance to win 2 tickets to the UofL v. NC State basketball game, please email asdean@louisville.edu by Thursday 2/12 at 3 pm. A drawing will be held at 4:00 pm. Please be sure to include a phone number where you can reached should you win.

Teaching, Service, Research & Creative Activity

Engaged Scholarship in Action series continues with Signature Partnership discussion

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office for Community Engagement, with co-sponsorship by A&S Dean and 6 others, this panel discussion titled “Signature Partnership Initiative: A Forum for Engagement” will be the second program in the Engaged Scholarship in Action series. Brief presentations will be followed by discussion of how interdisciplinary efforts might create more effective collaborations and positive community outcomes. Light lunch served. Panelists: SPHIS Dean Craig Blakely, Anita Barbee (Kent), Laura Rothstein (Law), and David Simpson (A&S-UPA). If you are an engaged scholar or just interested in the topic, please join us on Tues., Feb. 3, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m., Shumaker Research Building 139.

For more info on the series and upcoming programs. For additional information and promotional materials: jamie.beard@louisville.edu or 852-6142. Download flyer

Syllabi postings on Blackboard

Here is a downloadable list of courses for which there were no syllabi posted as of 1/14/15. If you followed the posting instructions and still find your course listed, please contact Julia Dietrich, who will ask Institutional Effectiveness to look into the problem.

New NSF policies and procedures

The National Science Foundation (NSF) added a new funding mechanism for proposers on Grants.gov and FastLane. Also, additional automated compliance checks on proposals will begin in FastLane that could have an impact on NSF submissions via Grants.gov. Proposals received by NSF that are not compliant may be returned without review. For links to the revised NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide and a detailed list of compliance checks, go to Announcements in the Research Office’s Blog.

Federal Grant Compliance

Six Month Effort Reports must be submitted via email to Sponsored Programs Administration - Finance no later than February 16, 2015. Effort Reports may be accessed via University Reports and are listed under Financials: Financials – Department – Effort Reports. Please be sure to review the second page of the Effort Report, which contains important information including definitions and guidance. If you have any questions regarding completion of these reports, please contact your unit business manager or Dana Moorer at 852-6983.

Kudos & Congratulations

Luke Buckman receives Provost’s Exemplary Advising Award

Congratulations to Luke Buckman (Assistant Director for Student Programming and Development, University Honors Program) Luke Buckman has been selected as the recipient of the 2014-2015 Provost’s Award for Exemplary Advising in the Professional Advisor category. The student who nominated him as well as the many others who wrote in support of this nomination emphasized the breadth and depth of Luke’s advising work as well as the difference that he has made in their UofL experience and lives.

Shiping Hua nominated for International Scholar honor

Professor Shiping Hua, Political Sciences, has been nominated one of the “2014 Ten International Scholars with Valuable Ideas about China.” He is in good company for the honor: Zhiwu Chen, Yale University; Cheng Li, Brookings Institution; 2001 Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, Columbia University; 2014 Nobel Prize laureate Jean Tirole, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The nomination was publicized by the Chinese magazine People’s Tribune in January 2015.

Andrea Olinger finalist for dissertation award

Prof. Andrea Olinger, Assistant Professor of English, was one of three finalists for the 2015 CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award. This award "honors a graduate whose dissertation improves the educational process in composition studies or adds to the field's body of knowledge, through research or scholarly inquiry."

Honor awarded to physics student organization 17 years running

UofL’s chapter of the Society for Physics Students’ (SPS) has won the Outstanding Chapter Award for the 17^th consecutive time.

4 A&S staff members receive President’s Outstanding Performance Award

Congratulations to our talented and dedicated staff members Luke Buckman (University Honors Program), Annelise Gray (English), Lori Cotter (A&S Dean’s Office), and Charles Nasby (Theatre Arts) for being among this year’s President’s Outstanding Performance Award recipients. They each received a plaque and monetary award at an awards luncheon in their honor this past Friday. More

Biology undergraduate student receives funding

Kimberly Bencker’s, Biology, Undergraduate Research Scholar Grant proposal entitled, "Kidney gene expression after chronic glyceollin" has been selected for funding by UofL’s Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation.

Andrew Zhao was one of 9 invited to speak

Prof. Jianhua (Andrew) Zhao, Anthropology, was one of nine scholars invited by The Collège d’études mondiales of the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme to a workshop entitled “The Routes of Luxury” held in Paris in early January. Prof. Zhao presented a paper entitled, “Routes of Luxury: Lessons and Observations from the Chinese Fashion Industry.”

Opportunities and Items of Note

Volunteer instructors needed

The Office of Communications and Marketing is looking for volunteers to lead subject-driven sessions during the annual College for a Day program Saturday, May 16. College for a Day is a partnership with Learning for Life and Explorer Clubs, Boys & Girls Club, Louisville Metro Parks, the Mayor’s Office for Youth Development, among others. It is a one-day event that brings several hundred middle and high school students to campus. Volunteers will need to be able to commit either a full-day (8 a.m-4 p.m.) or a half-day (either morning or afternoon) session. For a full list of subjects or just to find out more about what is involved, email Erica Walsh or call her at 852-6430.

Kentucky Women’s Book Festival on Saturday, March 7

Author presentations, book sales and signings and a luncheon will give participants a chance to connect over their favorite pastimes: reading, writing and talking about books. The festival, sponsored by the Women’s Center and University Libraries, begins at 9:30 a.m. with refreshments and socializing in the lobby and ends at 3:30 p.m. More information. Download flyer.

Thanks from A&S Tier 1 Gregg Rudd

“The amount of generosity and love from A & S Faculty and Staff to my family has been amazing. Because of your generosity our kids have warm clothes, my son’s phone will be replaced, Melody will be able to pick up anything needed for the new baby’s arrival, and we have part of our emergency fund replenished. I always tell people that A & S is the best department, and you have proven my belief to be correct. Thank you from the Rudd family.”

In the News

New Federal budget bill no “win’ for Kentucky(The Courier-Journal, 1/22/15) - Recent Anthropology masters graduate Shelly Biesel published an Op Ed essay. Biesel works for the Kentucky Environmental Foundation as a policy consultant.

Alison Lundergman Grimes announces she’ll seek re-election (WLKY, 1/26/15) - Prof. Dewey Clayton gives his thoughts Grime’s reelection bid.

Syrian refugees to begin arriving in Louisville(The Courier-Journal, 1/28/15) - Prof. Julie Peteet, Anthropology and Middle East & Islamic Studies, on the Syrian refugee resettlement in Louisville.

Author to speak at U of L on popularity of Mexican cuisine (Associated Press, 1/30/15 - Author Gustavo Arellano who is working on a project about Mexican restaurants in Kentucky will speak on the popularity of Mexican cuisine.

Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker to read as part of the Axton Reading Series (Lexington Herald-Leader, 1/26/15)