LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 2, 2021) The Kentucky ACE (American Council on Education) Women s Network is offering three major events in its spring leadership programming schedule, and they are open to all University of Kentucky faculty and staff. This programming is of interest to established and aspiring higher education professionals.
“We have an outstanding spring leadership program planned, with speakers including the incoming provost of Eastern Kentucky University, Sara Zeigler, and President Neeli Bendapudi of the University of Louisville,” said Kathryn Cardarelli, senior assistant provost for faculty affairs and associate professor in College of Public Health’s Department of Health, Behavior & Society. “The University of Kentucky is an institutional member of the Kentucky ACE Women s Network, so there is no cost for faculty and staff to attend.”
2020 UofL EPIC Innovation Awards winners (from left) Paula Bates, Brad Shuck, Theo Edmonds and Laura Weingartner.
University of Louisville researchers and innovators love a good challenge. And in 2020 a year of challenges they continued pushing forward, creating and commercializing groundbreaking technologies that can improve the way we work and live. They were recognized for those contributions at the presentation of the second annual EPIC Innovation Awards, held January 28.
“Innovation is absolutely critical to UofL’s mission,” said UofL President Neeli Bendapudi. “It’s what drives us and inspires us. Our three most important goals as a university are to be a great place to learn, to work and to invest, and the work of these innovators contributes to all three.”
By Bryce Shreve Kentucky
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. An All-American Cardinal has returned to Louisville: Cards legend Darrell Dr. Dunkenstein Griffith is now at UofL serving as a university ambassador.
Griffith will work with President Neeli Bendapudi to improve the university s profile and support its Cardinal Anti-Racism Agenda, according to a press release. Griffith started on Nov. 16, 2020.
“It feels so great to be working again with the university I love,” Griffith said. “I look forward to reconnecting with so many people in the community and working closely with President Bendapudi to continue to tell UofL’s story and to build relationships on campus and throughout the community.”
Hayes Gardner, Louisville Courier Journal
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2:55 pm UTC Dec. 16, 2020
LOUISVILLE Alexis Crook was smart and got good grades. But throughout elementary, middle and high school, she was often disengaged, would put her head down in class and sometimes acted out.
The Louisville native, who now has three master s degrees and a doctorate, dreaded going to school.
Alexis Crook has three masters degrees and a doctorate from U of L. Dec. 10, 2020Alton Strupp/The Courier Journal
She had an impoverished, traumatic childhood, but didn t feel like her teachers cared about her story. Crook, who is biracial with Black and white parents, said she had only one or two Black teachers before college, never connected with the curriculum and had little support when she wanted to go to college.
If we could describe 2020 in one word for posterity, it’d no doubt be “memorable.”
Hopefully it will also be anomalous.
This year was largely defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global disruption, ripped milestones from our routines and created a justifiable (and lingering) amount of concern and anxiety.
That’s not to say it wasn’t hard at times (it was), but our faculty, staff and students stepped up to the challenge – and then some.
Consider UofL’s response to this extraordinary virus as an example. From the onset, our nationally networked lab enabled researchers to safely study coronavirus, our engineering students produced 3D printed face shields for healthcare professionals, our business students started a company to meet demand for reusable face masks, 3D printed swabs developed at UofL filled a gap in test kits and we launched a decontamination program to alleviate a mask shortage for health care workers.