Monday Memo August 7, 2017

Announcements

New A&S podcast web page
Check out what your colleague's have been podcasting about and hear interviews with A&S faculty, staff, and alumni: uofl.me/as-podcasts. If you have a uploaded web audio showcasing your expertise, please share the link with jason.seitz@louisville.edu.

Drug Discovery & Development Symposium at UK

8th Annual College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery & Development and Natural Products Consortium Symposium -- Thursday, August 10, 2017, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, College of Pharmacy, Room 124. Keynote speakers this year include Dr. Edmund Graziani from Pfizer and Dr. Craig Townsend from Johns Hopkins University. Free, but registration required. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Catina Rossoll at cross2@uky.edu or Julie Oestreich at oestreich@uky.edu

Kudos

UofL climbed from 494 to 426 in Forbes college rankings
See how Kentucky colleges stack up in new Forbes rankings.

Comm degree program #6

University of Louisville was ranked #6 for best online Communications degrees in BestCommunicationsDegrees.com’s recent ranking. The ranking was created using information from the NCES College Navigator database.  Schools are ranked based on yearly tuition. Editors noted that University of Louisville offers competitive per credit hour pricing and keeps the student to faculty ratio low at 13:1.

Teaching; Research & Creative Activity; Service & Engagement

Defend A&S
In the Atlantic Monthly (8/17): "The Unexpected Value of the Liberal Arts: First-generation students are finding personal and professional fulfillment in the humanities and social sciences."

Ethics Forward podcast now uploaded
There is a new episode of Ethics Forward hosted by Avery Kolers (Philosophy) featuring Lauren Freeman (Philosophy) now up on Soundcloud. This week's topic: "Micro-ethics": micro-aggressions, trigger warnings, safe spaces, and the ways people with social power can harm others even without knowing it -- and the toll this can take on the victims. (Discussing, among other things, research conducted with Heather Stewart.)

In the News

Use of force expert weighs in on video of Bearheels' incident (KMTV-3, 7/26/17) -- Graduate stuent Edward Byers (Criminal Justice) weighs in on use of force in Omaha, Nebraska.

23 must-see Louisville art exhibits July 30-Aug. 5 (Courier-Journal, 7/26/17) -- Mentions to Fine Arts exhibits “New Recruits,” an exhibition of art and design by Kyoungmee Kate Byun, Tiffany Calvert, Meena Khalili, Margaret Leininger and Rachel Singel at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts. Reception Sept. 8, 6-8 p.m. Ends Sept. 9. Also references “In Between: Time and Transition,” a collection curated by students in the critical and curatorial studies graduate seminar which ended on  Aug. 4.

UofL Theatre Program selected for National Black Theatre Festival (Insider Louisville, 7/26/17) -- The African American Theatre Program (AATP) directed by Prof. Nefertiti Burton presented Baltimore at the annual National Black Theatre Festival. Baltimore, a play by Kirsten Greenidge that AATP originally staged in February, is the story of a college dealing with the appearance of racist graffiti on campus housing.

Louisville is sausage and gravy South (Courier-Journal, 7/27/17) -- Peter Morrin, recently retired director of the Center for Arts & Culture Partnerships on Speed Museum exhibit “Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in American Art.”

Here’s why cops hate the war on drugs as much as we do (NY Daily News, 7/31/2017) and GUEST COMMENTARY: Reviving the war on drugs will further harm police-community relations (Columbia Missourian, 8/3/17) -- Author Dean Dabney (Georgia State University) references  UofL co-author Prof. Richard Tewksbury (Criminal Justice). Their most recent work is on the role of confidential informants and posits that, among other things, a return to a “law and order” approach would undo recent gains in reducing crime rates as well as prison populations and would further strain tense police-community relations.

Urban Planning students pitch ideas to improve Louisville’s sustainability score (UofL News (video posted), 8/1/17) -- Students mapped out likely areas for transit oriented development or TODs in order to demonstrate areas of improvement in transportation, walkability to workplaces, and availability of affordable housing across the city.

University of Louisville Hite Art Institute exhibition showcases work of new studio art faculty (Kentucky Forward, 8/2/17) -- About the Hite Art Institute's “New Recruits,” an exhibition of art and design by its newest studio art faculty: Kyoungmee Kate Byun, Tiffany Calvert, Meena Khalili, Margaret Leininger and Rachel Singel. The exhibition spans the disciplinary range of the Department of Fine Arts with interior architecture by Byun, paintings by Calvert, prints and drawings by Khalili, textile multi-media by Leininger and lithographic prints by Singel.

Local apartment developer has five projects in the works - and that's just in Louisville (Insider Louisville, 8/3/17) — Links to previous story about graduate student Paul Dries (Urban and Public Affairs) and Urban Studies Institute.