Monday Memo April 20, 2015

Monday Memo
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Dean’s Message

Dear Colleagues,

Special thanks to Linda Rowley and Renee Murphy and a team of Fine Arts students for their volunteer effort to raise funds for the Cressman Center during Thunder Over Louisville. The many people who attended really appreciated the wonderful hospitality and opportunity to escape the crowds. You two definitely went above and beyond to help your department and our college!

This next few weeks are filled with opportunities to recognize achievements. I hope all of you will attend our end of year Celebration of A&S Excellence at 3 p.m. on Friday at the Red Barn. At 3:30, we will present some faculty awards and honor our retiring faculty. This casual, fun party is a bit of a departure from years past as it is intended to be a time to celebrate all of our achievements over this past academic year. Although the program will focus on the our award winner and retirees, the party is for everyone – faculty and staff alike. It is a great time to chat with colleagues from different departments and disciplines in an informal setting. This is something we need more opportunities to do, so please take a break from exam week and join us.

Sincerely,

Kimberly Kempf-Leonard

Dean, College of Arts & Sciences

Announcements

Celebrate A&S excellence!

Join us for the 2015 Celebration of A&S Excellence honoring our retiring faculty – Annette Allen, Humanities; John Cumbler, History; Linda M. Gigante, Fine Arts; Lida Gordon, Fine Arts; Robert Kimball, Philosophy; Jeffrey Skinner, English; Lee Shai Weissbach, History – as well as the winners of this year’s A&S Distinguished Faculty Awards and the Olorunsola Award for Outstanding Young Scholar. Friday, April 24 at theRed Barn. Doors open at 3 p.m. Program begins at 3:30 p.m. For more information about the honorees and the event and to let us know you plan to attend, go to attend.com/faculty.excellence.2015.

Last call for nominations for the 2015 A&S Alumni Fellow

The Alumni Fellow award is administered by the Alumni Association in cooperation with each of the University’s academic units, and is a permanent designation given by the Alumni Association and UofL’s Board of Trustees. To be considered a serious candidate, the nominee shall have:

distinguished him or herself in their chosen professional field of endeavor
made significant contributions to his or her community on a local, state, national or international level
demonstrated integrity in his/her personal life and gained the respect of those surrounding him/her

Please forward nominations to Lindsey Ronay by April 23.
DownloadNomination criteria and form.

Provost Calls for Nominations for 7^th Annual Community Engagement Awards

The purpose of the CEA is to recognize exemplary engagement across this spectrum of activities wherever they may occur: locally, regionally, nationally, or globally. You may nominate an individual or group of individuals for any of the various categories. You can also nominate a community partner with your program has developed a particularly strong relationship of mutual benefit. Eligible activities include community-based teaching and learning, community-based research, partnerships, outreach, community service, volunteerism, internships, service-learning, practicum, or clinical experience. Award winners will receive an engraved crystal, $2,500 monetary award, and their name will be added to a permanent display in the Ekstrom Library. Deadline is April 30. More information on the award categories and criteria, as well as nomination forms

Latin American and Latino Studies Club donation drive for Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Inc.

Please help the LALS Club help Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Inc. KRM is looking for some gently used items for incoming refugee families. Items needed include kitchen utensils, toiletries, full and twin bed sheets, bath towels, pots and pans, dishes and glassware, light bulbs, blankets and comforters, and other household items. Please drop off items in the LALS Offices (Stevenson 304-306) through Wednesday of this week. Questions? Contact Natalie Schuetz in LALS.

Teaching, Creative Activities & Service, and Research

Abbott, associate professor of political science, speaks at "Asian Studies in the Contemporary World” Conference

Prof. Jason Abbott, Director of the Center for Asian Democracy, will be speaking at the "Asian Studies in the Contemporary World” Conference at Eastern Kentucky University on Friday, April 24^th. The conference is sponsored by the EKU Asian Studies Program and the Bluegrass State Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence and celebrates the recent launch of the Asian Studies Program at Eastern Kentucky University.

Bio Team Hasenjager and Dugatkin

Matt Hasenjager (biology Ph.D. candidate) is lead author on a 75 page paper in the 50th anniversary issue of Advances in the Study of Behaviour,a very important journal in the field of animal behavior. Coauthor: Prof. Lee Dugatkin, biology. Full citation: Hasenjager, M. and L. Dugatkin 2015. Social Network Analysis in Behavioral Ecology. Advances in the Study of Behaviour 47: 39-114.

International Honor Quilt now searchable online

The International Honor Quilt (IHQ), a recent gift to the Hite Art Institute collections from Judy Chicago, is now online in a searchable database on the UofL Libraries website. The IHQ was gifted to the Hite Art Institute, to be permanently available for a variety of educational purposes including active scholarly research, exhibition and curriculum programming. Read more

2015 A&S research and creative activities grants recipients announced

There are 15 recipients (9 faculty and 6 graduate students) of this year’s A&S Research and Creative Activity Grants. These grants are intended for faculty and graduate students in A&S for the purpose of increasing extramural research funding, as well as the number of scholarly publications, refereed exhibits, and artistic performances.

A&S Faculty Research and Creative Activities Grant recipients:

Lluís Baixauli Olmos, Classical & Modern Languages
Maryam Moazzen, Humanities
Simona Bertacco, Humanities
Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe, Humanities
Latrica Best & Carson Byrd, Pan-African Studies
Laurie Rhodebeck, Political Science
Monnica T Williams, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Tamara Newton, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Baron Kelly, Theatre Arts

A&S Graduate Student Research and Creative Activities Grant recipients:

Jenn Altman (faculty mentor Paul Salmon), Psychological & Brain Sciences
Allyn Richards (faculty mentor Janet Woodruff-Borden), Psychological & Brain Sciences
Brian Ludwin (faculty mentor Suzanne Meeks), Psychological & Brain Sciences
Nicholas Holt (faculty mentor Cara Cashon), Psychological & Brain Sciences
Ghazel Tellawi (faculty mentor Monnica Williams), Psychological & Brain Sciences
James Rooney (faculty mentor Mark Blum), History

Kudos and Congratulations

Nuessel named Full Member of ANLE

The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) named Prof. Frank Nuessel, Classical & Modern Languages, a Full Member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE). The honor is given to individuals based on outstanding research and publications in the field of Spanish language, linguistics and/or literature.

Allen, a junior in A&S, named 2015 Truman Scholar

Amanda Allen, an A&S junior double majoring in political science and communication, is one of just 58 U.S. college students who have been named a 2015 Truman Scholar. The Truman Scholarship is a prominent award that provides graduate education for public service-minded scholars and is valued at $30,000. Read more

Poetry in motion

4 A&S students have been invited to read at the Kentucky Poetry Festival's College Showcase to be held at the University of Kentucky on April 25. The students are: Bobby Rich (graduate), Joanna Englert (graduate), Tessa Withorn (undergraduate), and Dylon Jones (undergraduate.) These students will read at the showcase and have a poem published in an anthology produced to commemorate the event.

Congrats to the UofL Quiz Bowl Team

Congrats to the UofL Quiz Bowl team for their victories Saturday at the inaugural Salsarita’s Invitational. Both the Division I and Division II teams went 5-0 and won their respective divisions.

2 out of 4 Division I team members were from A&S: Jacob Graham (Psychology) and Megan Seldon (English and Humanities) The performance also clinched the team’s 5th straight Kentucky Collegiate Quick Recall League Division I title.
4 out of 5 Division II team members were from A&S: Max Brown (History), Erica Fields (Political Science), Cate Heady (Geography), and Jacob Wollam (English). The performance clinched the team’s 6th straight KCQRL Division II Title.

In the News

UofL student, Manual H.S. grad named Truman Scholar (WHAS-11, 4/16/15) Amanda Allen, a junior in A&S majoring in political science and communication, has been named a 2015 Truman Scholar, a prominent award given to just 58 U.S. college students this year.

Seven auditoriums to receive $1 million renovations (The Louisville Cardinal, 4/15/15)

City planning makeover for ReSurfaced (The Courier-Journal, 4/17/15): “ReSurfaced, the pop-up plaza that brought new life to a long-vacant lot downtown, is getting ready to make a return.”

Why one-way streets are bad for everyone but speeding cars (The Washington Post, 4/17/15) Prof. John Gilderbloom and fellow researcher from Urban and Public Affairs have “begun to prove the curious link between how we engineer roads and what becomes of the neighborhoods around them.”

In this Issue

Announcements

Teaching, Creative Activities
& Service, and Research

Kudos & Congratulations

In the News

Events

Fun Fact

Did you know that UofL’s College of Arts and Sciences undergraduate enrollment is greater than that of Morehead State University entire undergraduate enrollment?!?