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Message from the Dean
Dear Colleagues,
Happy Fall Break! After a few days of quiet, we will be in high activity mode. Department chairs: you need to make sure your academic unit is represented at Campus Preview Day this Saturday, as it is our largest recruiting event of the year! Next week, we welcome to campus political science alumna Professor Barbara Perry, co-chair of the Miller Center Presidential Oral History Program and professor at the University of Virginia. She will not only be the recipient of the A&S Alumni Fellow award and be honored as part of Homecoming festivities, but she will also speak to students and be our featured A&S All Star presenter. Besides a busy Homecoming week, we have the Latin American & Latino Studies Heritage Lecture, 2 films in the Reel Latin American Film series, the Symposium on Translation and the Global Humanities, the Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy, Ying Kit’s gallery talk on his current exhibit Deep Ecology, the A&S All Star lecture, and the Thomas R. Watson Conference.
Although scheduling conflicts necessarily happen, some of the overlap next week could’ve been prevented with more effective communication. Please make sure to use the University calendaring system Localist for scheduling and promoting your events. Also, let us know your plans by emailing them to asadvance@louisville.edu.
See you on campus!!
Sincerely,
Kimberly Kempf-Leonard
Dean
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Announcements re Communication
- Please be sure to forward announcements that you wish to be disseminated to A&S faculty and/or staff to asadvance@louisville.edu by Thursday at 12 Noon, so that they can be included in the Monday Memo. Only use the faculty and staff listservs for emergency emails that cannot wait until the next Monday Memo.
- If you have recent successes, stories or events that are newsworthy, please forward them to the A&S Dean’s Office either before or concurrently with submitting to other offices on campus. In other words, if you are sending something to Judy Hughes in Communications and Marketing, be sure to copy asadvance@louisville.edu. It is important that the Dean’s Office act as a clearinghouse for college news!
- Be sure to submit any department or program event to the University calendar. Once the event is submitted and cleared, it will by default show up on the A&S calendar. You can submit at events.louisville.edu. Log in using your UofL userid and password. Here is a quick instructional video on how to add an event to the calendar.
Research and Creative Activity Announcements
- Poster presentations are being sought from undergraduates in all disciplinary areas for the Posters-at-the-Capitol event. Please have them submit their abstract by October 15, 2014. For more details and a link to the flyer, see the Announcements section of the A&S Research Office’s blog (link corrected from last week’s Monday Memo.)
Research and Creative Activity Kudos
- Prof. George E. Higgins, Department of Justice Administration, has been ranked 4th Worldwide in Scholarly Publications among Criminologists; see Ellen G. Cohn & David P. Farrington, Publication Productivity among Criminologists, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, (2014), Vol. 25, No. 3, p275-303.
- Prof. Patrick Shafto, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, has been invited to be a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Center for the Study of Language and Information during the Spring of 2014. While there, he will conduct collaborative research with Stanford scholars in computational cognitive science.
- Nine Justice Administration doctoral students recently participated in sessions at the regional meeting of the Southern Criminal Justice Association as sole authors or co-authors with faculty. More information
- Prof. John Pani, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, and others in his Visual Cognition Laboratory just had a paper come out in Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice that reports on the use of their instructional software in the undergraduate neuroscience classroom taught by Prof. Sandie Sephton, who is a co-author on the paper. Reference: Pani, J. R., Chariker, J. H., & Naaz, F., Roberts, J., Sephton, S. E. (2014). Learning with interactive computer graphics in the undergraduate neuroscience classroom. Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice, 19, 507-528.
- Three faculty members from the Department of English have seen the publication of books that span research interests from Anglo Saxon to Civil Rights to the popularity of zombies. Books include Prof. Aaron Jaffe’s The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center, Prof. Andrew Rabin’s Political Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York, and Prof. Stephen Schneider’s You Can't Padlock An Idea
- Prof. Carolyn Mervis, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, was invited by Prof. Danilo Moretti-Ferreira, Department of Genetics at UNESP (São Paulo State University), to teach a mini-course on Williams syndrome and to give the opening address at the International Symposium of the Research Group in Evaluation of Speech and Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Speech and Language. Additionally, she consulted with Dr. Moretti-Ferreira, on the first known case of a child with 7q11.23 duplication syndrome in Brazil and met with the child and his parents. Drs. Moretti-Ferreira and Mervis are planning an ongoing collaboration regarding this child and future cases of this syndrome in Brazil. They are also planning to collaborate on genotype/phenotype correlations in children who have Williams syndrome.
A&S In the News
- With the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research’s recent exhibit opening at the Louisville Free Public Library and the 60th anniversary of the Braden-Wade sedition case, Dr. Fosl has been featured in the media multiple times over the past few weeks. Below are some interviews and articles that have featured her and her work. Another WFPL feature is coming soon. We are excited by all of this great media attention!
Opportunities/Items of Interest
- Reservations due by Oct. 8 for Oct. 16 NETWORK luncheon event: This talk will focus on the importance of diversity in education and community, including solutions to racial divide. Speakers will be the Rev. Kevin Cosby, Simmons College of Kentucky president and St. Stephen Church senior pastor, and David Jones Jr., Chrysalis Ventures chairman and Jefferson County Board of Education vice chair. WAVE-TV news anchor Dawne Gee will moderate. The noon event will be at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, 1701 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd. Doors will open at 11:45 a.m. For more information
- A&S Faculty Field Trip: Mindfulness Mini-Retreat led by Prof. Paul Salmon, Psychological & Brain Sciences. In this mini-retreat, participants will explore the foundations of mindfulness as they are taught and practiced in the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. Quiet sitting meditation, gentle yoga-inspired movement, mindful eating, body scan, and related practices will give participants an opportunity to experience a day devoted to slowing down and bringing attention into the present moment. Discounted price of $20 for A&S faculty, staff and alumni. Vegetarian lunch included. For more information and to register
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In this Issue
Message from the Dean
Announcements re Communication
Research and Creative Activity Announcements
Research and Creative Activity- Congratulations and Kudos
A&S in the News
Opportunities/Items of Interest
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Upcoming A&S Events
Oct 6 – Nov 9 Black Freedom, White Allies & Red Scare: Louisville 1954 (Exhibit)
Oct 6 - Oct 25 African Art from the Margaret and Frederick Merida Collection (Exhibit)
Oct 6 - Oct 25 Nate Larson: New American Landscape (Exhibit)
Oct 8 - Oct 31 Deep Ecology: New Work by Ying Kit Chan (Exhibit)
Oct 8 12pm Inclusive Teaching Circles
Oct 8 7pm Reel Latin America Film Festival: Clandestine Childhood
Oct 9 11am Storytelling, Cancer and Compassion: A Duet Talk and Conversation
Oct 9 5pm Reel Latin America Film Festival: Karen Cries on the Bus
Oct 9 7pm Reel Latin America Film Festival: Clandestine Childhood
Oct 9 8pm - Oct 12 Studio Theatre
Oct 10 6pm Corn Island Storytelling Festival
Oct 10 7pm Reel Latin America Film Festival: Monster
Oct 11 7pm Reel Latin America Film Festival: Raúl
Oct 12 5:30pm - Oct 15 Reel Latin America Film Festival: Illiterate
Oct 13 2:30pm Brazil's Historical 2014 Presidential Elections
Oct 13 6pm - Oct 21 Town Hall Meeting
Oct 14 4:30pm 13th Annual LALS Heritage Lecture, 'The Rebirth of Argentine Culture During the Post-Dictatorship,' by Ana María Shua
Oct 16 8am - Oct 18 Thomas R. Watson Conference
Oct 16 12pm NETWORK luncheon
Oct 16 1pm - Oct 17 Translation and the Global Humanities Conference
Oct 16 7pm Reel Latin America Film Festival: The Golden Dream
Oct 18 10am A&S All Stars - "Presidential All Stars: From the Sports Arena to the White House"
Oct 19 4pm Yearlings Club - Saving our Children Part I: Da Takeover
Oct 20 1pm A&S Diversity Council Meeting
Oct 23 6pm A&S Faculty Author Party
Oct 26 2pm Shachar Pinsker, PhD on "A Rich Brew: Urban Cafes & Modern Jewish Culture"
Oct 30 9am Justice Administration Career & Internship Fair
Oct 30 4pm Axton Reading Series: fiction by Heather Slomski
Oct 31 10am Axton Master Class by Heather Slomski
Nov 1 10am Faculty Field Trip - Mindfulness Retreat
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