Dean’s Message
Dear Colleagues,
Mother Nature continues to interfere with spring semester, this time with major damage from flooding in the Chemistry building. With an impressive number of green drying machines and fast work, hopefully students and faculty will be back to work on Wednesday. Our thanks to the Physical Plant staff and the ServicePro Disaster Recovery teams who worked all weekend.
Sincerely,
Kimberly Kempf-Leonard
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
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Announcements
Faculty Excellence Celebration April 24
posMark your calendars for the 2015 Celebration of Faculty Excellence honoring the winners of the 2014-15 Distinguished Faculty Awards, the Olorunsola Award for Outstanding Young Scholar and others (TBA) as well as our retiring faculty: Annette Allen (Humanities), John Cumbler (History), Linda M. Gigante (Fine Arts), Robert Kimball (Philosophy), Jeffrey Skinner (English), and Lee Shai Weissbach (History) on Friday, April 24 at the Red Barn. Doors open at 3pm. Program begins at 3:30pm. Celebrate your colleagues and the end of the academic year with food, drink and festivity. RSVP using this link.
Poster Competition in Chemistry at UK
The University of Kentucky (UK) Undergraduate Research in Chemistry Regional Poster Competition will be held Friday, April 17 on the UK Campus. The event, which showcases undergraduate research from around the region and allows undergraduate researchers to network with their colleagues, will begin at 1pm, with prizes given for first place ($300), second place ($200), and three honorable mention ($100) awards. Please let interested students know they may register online by April 10. The poster competition will be held in conjunction with the Lyle Dawson Lecture Series. This year’s lecture will be given by Professor Geoffrey Coates (Cornell University), whose research focuses on the development of synthetic strategies for producing polymers with defined structure.
Missing Syllabi
Please review the latest list of classes missing syllabi. If your course is listed and you believe you have posted the syllabus to Blackboard in the appropriate format, please contact Julia Dietrich.
Items of Note
New Web Coordinator for A&S
Please welcome Jason Seitz to the College of Arts and Sciences. He is the new website coordinator for the college. He can be reached at jason.seitz@louisville.edu and 852-7423. If you see him, talk to him or email him, please be sure welcome him to campus and A&S!
2015 Grawemeyer Talks
Recipients of the 2015 Grawemeyer Awards will discuss their winning works at the University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in April. For more information and a schedule of the talks, visit Grawmeyer Talks 2015.
In the News
Prof. Theresa Hayden (Justice Administration) spoke with numerous press outlets over the past few weeks in a collaborative media outreach effort with UofL’s Office of Communications and Marketing. Hayden’s research was seen across multiple media platforms – internet, TV, print in major markets such as Detroit, Cleveland and Indianapolis – among others. The successful collaboration enabled Prof. Hayden to bring the issues of child sex trafficking, and research being done at UofL, to the forefront and hopefully make decision-makers aware of its impact on their local communities.
Louisville is Attracting Young Residents at Among Highest Rates in the U.S. (WFPL, 4/6/2015) – Prof. Matthew Ruther (Urban and Public Affairs) on the importance of young people in cities.
Students hoping to catch a glimpse of the President (WAVE-3, 4/3/2015) – Prof. Che Rhodes (Fine Arts) on President Obama’s visit to Louisville.
Taiwan advances to Sweet 16 in Asia-Pacific Democracy Tournament (Focus Taiwan, 4/1/2015 – Amanda LeDuke, with UofL’s Center for Asian Democracy, on the March Madness-style bracket for most democratic county in Asia as polled through Facebook.
U of L students hosting ‘Jane Jacobs Walk’ of Butchertown this Saturday (Insider Louisville, 4/1/2015) – The Planning Student organization (Urban and Public Affairs) on “Jane Jacobs Walks” to help residents appreciate cities they call home.
President Obama to Visit Louisville This Week (WKMS 91.3, 3/31/2015) – Prof. Dewey Clayton (Political Science) on President Obama’s visit to Louisville.
What ‘Outside Money’ Means For Kentucky’s Gubernatorial Primary (WKMS 91.3, 3/31/2015) – Prof. Dewey Clayton (Political Science) on this year’s gubernatorial race.
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In this Issue
Announcements
Items of Note
In the News
Events
Fun Fact
The first class of students graduated from the College of Arts & Sciences in 1911.
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