Former Montgomery County Commissioner Samuel Kessler was found dead in his home in the Montgomery County town of Ladoga, about 35 miles west of Indianapolis.
University of Louisville senior Samuel Kessler has earned a prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarship. The Mitchell Scholarship program sends future American leaders to Ireland for a year of graduate study and is one of Ireland's most significant scholarship programs. The US-Ireland Alliance announced in November that Kessler, who will graduate in spring 2022 with an individualized major degree, was one of 12 chosen out of 351 applications for the class of 2023. "I owe a lot of credit to the academic and co-curricular experiences I've had at UofL, the way that campus yields itself to having an entrepreneurial spirit, and to those who have helped my growth as a scholar who believes in the importance of harnessing the power of ideas to solve problems in the real world," Kessler said. Sam Kessler The Mitchell Scholarship is one of the three "Big Brit" awards that also include the Rhodes Scholarship and the Marshall Scholarship. Kessler, of Campbellsville, Ke
With politics in the United States seemingly more divided than ever, a group of University of Louisville undergraduate students is focused on closing what it calls "the perception gap" through a nonpartisan online magazine. The Louisville Political Review (LPR) is modeled after the Harvard Political Review, written and published by Harvard undergraduates since 1969. LPR's editorial board is made up of UofL undergraduates: junior Julia Mattingly, editor-in-chief; sophomore Nino Owens, managing editor; and associate editors sophomore Alex Reynolds and sophomore Emma Fridy. Mattingly majors in rural health and economics; the other three either major or double-major in political science. There are also eight staff writers – all undergraduates. At just 1 year old, LPR is an infant compared to its well-established cousin. But LPR is already tackling the big issues: gun buyback programs; climate change and Appalachia; the minimum wage; hunger; the coronavirus vaccine and whit