Monday Memo June 22, 2015
Announcements
Review Adding/Changing Grant Personnel Policy Due to recent issues in the review of grant files, please review the Adding/Changing Personnel on a Grant policy.
Teaching, Research, Service and Creative Activities
Prof. Worley receives NIH funding
Prof. Micah Worley just received notification that his NIH grant to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was funded for 3 years for $450,000. The grant, entitled “The reverse transmigration of Salmonella-infected cells into the bloodstream,” is to study how Salmonella hijacks a type of immune system cell and forces it into the bloodstream, creating a more serious infection.
Prof. Clayton gives lecture to Young Scholars
Prof. Dewey Clayton gave a lecture on civil disobedience, Martin L. King Jr., and Malcolm X to a group from the Young Scholars Program. The program consists of 26 high school students from Kentucky. The lecture was in the Allen Court Room at the Brandeis School of Law where Dr. King spoke to UofL students in 1967. To see the a story on the lecture and the students, visit WAVE-3.
Items of Note
Scholarship for single parents available Help spread the word to your students that the Ann T. Allen Endowed Scholarship is accepting applications. The scholarship, through the UofL Women’s Center, is for single parents who are full-time students. See the application for more info.
Women’s Center seeks Student Events Coordinator The UofL Women’s Center is seeking a Student Events Coordinator for fall 2015-spring 2016. See the application for more info.
In the News
How to Give the Most Motivating Pep Talk (The Wall Street Journal, 6/15/2015) – On social support research conducted by Prof. Michael Cunningham (Communication) and Prof. Anita Barbee (Kent School).
Where will lightning strike next? (The Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, 6/16/2015) – On research into lightning strikes and electrical resistivity in trees conducted by Prof. Steve Yanoviak (Biology), and NSF Fellow and PhD student Evan Gora (Biology).
ReSurfaced will relocate this fall after finding success on West Main Street (Business First, 6/17/2015) – Patrick Piuma, director of the Urban Design Studio, on ReSurfaced’s move to a new location this fall.
Was Charlotte Brontë Gay? (OUT Magazine, 6/16/2015) – Prof. Deborah Lutz (English) writes about Charlotte Bronte’s relationships with women, and what her writing says about them.
Caring for those who care for horses (The Horsemen’s Journal, summer 2015) – On the partnership between UofL’s School of Nursing and the College of Arts & Sciences Latin American and Latino Studies program at the Kentucky Racing Health Services Clinic.
Did You Know?
The University of Louisville acquired the land – about 40 acres and about a dozen buildings – most still on campus, in 1924.
