Monday Memo April 27, 2015
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Dean’s Message
Dear Colleagues,
This is our last Monday Memo of spring semester. We will continue to distribute Monday Memos during the summer, so please continue to submit information. However, we will save any policy and procedural information until the week before the fall semester begins to ensure nothing is missed.
We plan to create a schedule of events and activities for each semester, so if you have invited speakers, planned films, symposia, or conferences for the fall semester that you want others to attend or know about, please post them on the University calendar (Localist) as soon as you have even the most basic details, but no later than August 1. Note that at any time after you create your event, you can always log back into Localist and add to or change the event, so it can’t hurt to post before all the details are ironed out. For instructions on how to post events to Localist, please go to our A&S Advancement Resources page.
Thank you for your great work this year. As a dean new to the University, it has been tremendous fun and highly impactful to learn about the important scholarship, commitment to effective teaching, and contributions to the community stemming from the College of Arts & Sciences. I am very proud of the many accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and students this year. We have among the best and the brightest and are able to compete in the arenas that matter in higher education. I promise to share highlights of our publications, grants, performances, exhibits, honors, awards, fundraising, and impact at the next State of the College address early in the Fall semester. In the meantime, I hope to see many of you at our commencement ceremony, and wish everyone a fun and productive summer!
Sincerely,
Kimberly Kempf-Leonard
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Announcements
Vietnam War event to air on C-SPAN
Vietnam War stories from a March 31 event, “Unheard Tales of the Vietnam War: A South Vietnamese Perspective from Kentucky” featuring five panelists sharing memories 40 years after the fall of Saigon, is scheduled to air May 2 on C-SPAN3’s American History TV. For more information, visit C-SPAN.
Kudos and Congratulations
Prof. Buchanan receives advising award
Prof. Rhonda Buchanan (Latin American and Latino Studies) was selected as a National Academic Advising Association 2015 Award Winner in the Faculty Advising category. She will be honored at the special Awards Ceremony and Reception being held at the annual NACADA Conference in Las Vegas this fall.
Zhe Dong receives full fellowship to UVA
MA student Zhe Dong, an advisee of Prof. Delin Lai (Chinese Art and Architecture), has been accepted to the doctoral program in the Constructed Environment in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia with a full fellowship that will cover his entire tuition and all other expenses. UVA’s School of Architecture is placed as high as number 10 in the national ranking for architecture schools, ahead of UC Berkeley, U Penn, and Princeton.
In the News
Is it time for Kentucky to loosen its marijuana laws? (Business First of Louisville, 4/20/2015) – Prof. Dewey Clayton on legalizing marijuana in Kentucky.
Christianity's potential to bring about real, radical belonging (National Catholic Reporter, 4/20/2015) – Mariam Williams, program coordinator at the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, on the 2015 Grawemeyer Lecture in Religion delivered by Rev. Dr. Willie James Jennings.
UofL students biking West Coast to build Habitat house (Lexington Herald-Leader, 4/21/2015) – Student Stephanie Dooper (Political Science and Liberal Studies) is partnering with another UofL student to raise money to build an entirely student-funded Habitat for Humanity house.
Louisvillians Should Be Able to See a Meteor Shower Tonight (WFPL 89.3, 4/22/2015) – Prof. Tim Dowling (Physics) on the Lyrid meteor shower.
Major Shakespeare play collection coming to Frazier (The Courier-Journal, 4/23/2015) – UofL is co-sponsoring the exhibit of Shakespeare’s “First Folio,” a rare first collected edition of the plays of William Shakespeare, at the Frazier History Museum Nov. 10 – Dec. 16.
