Faculty
- Theatre Arts Department sponsors textile competition at Kentucky State Fair
- UofL’s Theatre Arts Department costume shop will also once again sponsor two categories in the Textile Division of the Kentucky State Fair competition.
- Hite photography professor plans major eclipse exhibition
- Prof. Mary Carothers, Hite Art Institute, is creating “Overshadowed,” a “collaborative, experimental exhibition that examines the meeting point between photography, landscape and astronomy.”
- Hite Art Institute presents Type Hike a design project supporting nature
- Hite Art Institute will bring “Type Hike,” a collection of artistic posters that celebrate the National Park Service to Schneider Hall Galleries Aug. 18-Sept. 22.
- Artful geography: Hite Art Institute shows professor’s work exploring place
- Prof. Meena Khalili moved to Louisville a little over a year ago to start her job as an assistant professor of design at Hite Art Institute, she challenged herself to get to know her new home in a new way.
- Micro-aggressions, trigger warnings, and safe spaces
- Host Avery Kolers talks with Prof. Lauren Freeman of the University of Louisville about "micro-ethics": micro-aggressions, safe spaces, trigger warnings, and the way people with social power and privilege can perpetrate harms and aggressions against others even without intending to -- and what to do about it.
- Exoplanet discovery and the impending eclipse
- Astrophysics teacher John Kielkopf and UofL grad Karen Collins talk about the discovery of a new exoplanet in space, UofL’s telescopes and the upcoming solar eclipse on the UofL Today with Mark Hebert radio show.
- Anthropology outreach to Louisville Youth Science Summit
- Anthropology professors work with local middle school children at the Louisville Youth Science Summit.
- The Greatest Two Minutes in Astronomy
- On August 21, 2017 part of western Kentucky will be host to a total eclipse. Prof. Gerard Williger and Prof. Tim Dowling of the Dept of Physics and Astronomy comment about the event.
- Resiliency project aimed at helping Louisville's homeless
- Professor Lora Haynes (Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences) talks about a resiliency project aimed at Louisville's homeless and the residents of Flint, Michigan on UofL Today with Mark Hebert.
- Antibiotic resistant bacteria in local water sources
- Profs. Paul Himes and Deborah Yoder-Himes (Department of Biology) discuss their research into antibiotic resistant bacteria in local water sources on UofL Today with Mark Hebert.
- A&S faculty collaborate on social justice research
- The Cooperative Consortium for Transdisciplinary Social Justice Research, is led by co-principal investigators Cate Fosl, professor of women’s and gender studies, and director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research in the College of Arts & Science, and Enid Trucios-Haynes, professor in the Brandeis School of Law and director of the Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice.
- A&S instructor launches new scholarship for Central HS students
- On Derby night, May 6, from 8 p.m. to midnight, NightBreeze will play in the University Ballroom to raise money for the new Gloria Jean Churchill Scholarship.
- 2017 A&S Awards
- Congratulations to this year's honorees: Ying Kit Chan, Sarah Miller, Wendy Pfeffer, Craig Grapperhaus, Janet Woodruff-Borden, Frank Zamborini, Andrew Rabin, Keith Lyle, Elaine Wise, Deborah Keeling, Raymond J. Chastain, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Stephen P. Yanoviak, Peter Morrin, Khaldoun Almousily, Tiffany Calvert, Andrea Gaughan, Farshid Ramezanipour, D.J. Biddle, Mona Francis, Jessica Kidd, Melissa Moody, Taleia Willis, Theresa Berbet, Daniel Brian, Shari Gater, Neal Stolowich, and Mark Rubenstein.
- Prof. Dan Vivian (History) helps tell StoryWood Bowties’ story
- Prof. Dan Vivian (History) talks about a local company using salvaged historic wood to create wooden bowties.
- Using design to help people read
- Prof Steven Skaggs, head of the Graphic Design BFA with old friend and graphic designer Keith Kleespies created a new text font for people with macular degeneration called Maxular Model B. This will soon enter scientific testing at the University of Minnesota to prove empirically that it works.
- Meet Kentucky’s ‘Hidden Figures’ in STEM
- Dr. Aleeta Powe (Chemistry) and Dr. Angelique Johnson (J.B. Speed School of Engineering) will be holding a talk of women in the STEM field at The Yearling’s Club’s salute to Kentucky’s ‘Hidden Figures.’
- GIS reveals history: Using modern technology to map a lost landscape
- Prof. Daniel Krebs (History) tells the story of the 1862 Battle of Perryville – but outdoors, and outside the confines of the archives. Partnering with DJ Biddle (Geography & Geosciences) to map the battlefield using drones with cameras.
- Lebanese police learn tactics from SPI
- A group of officers from the Lebanese National Police spent two weeks in Louisville getting first hand views of SWAT team tactics, community policing and the cameras overseeing city streets. But their main goal was to take home new leadership and management skills from UofL's Southern Police Institute.
- Mapping the Humanities
- The CCHS is foregrounding humanities research through the Faculty Fellows program, as well as fostering interdisciplinary conversations on campus and actively engaging faculty with the community. The 2016-17 fellows are working on research as diverse as the nature of emotion, the ethics of interpretation, and issues in bioethics, civil rights history, and the politics of mixed-race identity.
- Vision relies on attention to the environment
- Prof. Zijiang He (Psychological & Brain Sciences) and his team found that perceived target location was more accurate only when both the textured surface was on the ground and the observers directed attention to the lower visual field. An ambient attention mechanism in the environment selects the ground surface (our terrestrial niche) to use as bases and scaffolds to form the vast visual world.
