Monday Memo May 18, 2015

Announcements

Note to chairs/directors: The UofL Alumni Association is investigating the possibility of creating an A&S Alumni Council and needs your input. Please take 2 minutes to take this very brief survey.

Teaching, Research, Service and Creative Activities

Prof. Gibson edits new work
Prof. John Gibson edited the book, “The Philosophy of Poetry,” published this month by Oxford University Press. The book brings together philosophers of art, language, and mind to expose and address the array of problems poetry raises for philosophy.

Kudos & Congratulations

Alex O’Keefe wins Honors Council award
Alex O'Keefe, University Honors Program, was recognized by the National Collegiate Honors Council with a 2015 Award for Administrative Excellence.

Luke Buckman wins Advising Award
Luke Buckman, Assistant Director for Student Programming and Development in the University Honors Program, was recognized recently with the Provost’s Award for Exemplary Advising in the Professional Advisor category. Since then, Luke has been selected to receive a 2015 Certificate of Merit from the National Academic Advising Association.

Items of Note

2015 A&S grad featured in “Going Pro” video
Political science graduate Morgan Cooksey was featured in a short video about her future plans and her experience at UofL. You can view it here.

In the News

Rand Paul's missed opportunity (The Courier-Journal, 5/9/2015) – Prof. Dewey Clayton on presidential candidate Rand Paul.

Do presidential libraries really pay off for cities? (Marketplace, 5/12/2015) – Prof. Benjamin Hufbauer on the economic benefits, or lack thereof, of presidential libraries.

What are Presidential Libraries for? (BBC, 5/12/2015) – Prof. Benjamin Hufbauer on presidential libraries.

UofL students and alumni earn prestigious international scholarships, awards(Northern Kentucky Tribune, 5/12/2015) – On UofL’s national scholarship winners.

Modern day slavery: Breaking free from human trafficking (WLKY, 5/13/2015) – Prof. Theresa Hayden on human trafficking in Louisville.

Dems to study impact of housing fund tax hike (The Courier-Journal, 5/14/2015) – On a Metro Council ordinance to have University of Louisville's Urban Studies Institute examine the social, economic and fiscal impact of raising the insurance premium tax by 1 percent to support the housing trust fund.

Study: Christianity on decline in U.S. (WHAS, 5/15/2015) – Prof. Jim Hunter on demographic changes affecting religious beliefs in the U.S.

Did You Know

Marjorie Mattingly Samuels, the woman behind the naming of Maker’s Mark, the bottle design and the brand’s trademarked dripping red wax, graduated from the College of Arts & Sciences with a degree in chemistry in 1933. Samuels was the first woman to be inducted into the Kentucky Distillers Association’s Bourbon Hall of Fame, and the lone inductee last year.