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Meet and greet with
Louisville Mayor
Volunteers are needed to attend the Mayor Jerry Abramson’s press conference on Wed., Feb. 18 at 10:30 a.m.
It will be held at Louisville’s city hall located at 527 West Jefferson Street. It will be in the mayors annex on the 4th floor. There will be a meet and greet with photo-op starting at 9:45 if you care to take part.
“It’s a partnership I created with the mayor in essence for more community engagement,” stated Mike Dennis, University of Louisville Student Government Association Executive Vice-President. “I started meeting with him last semester and we worked out some ideas to foster more collaboration for our students,” he said. One of SGA’s pillars this year is community engagement. “U of L prides itself on the relationship with the city but I wasn’t seeing enough collaboration,” said Dennis.
Contact sgaevp@louisville.edu or 502-852-8322 for more information.
NPR Journalist to visit
Wednesday
National Public Radio host Farai Chideya is set to speak at the Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library, on Belknap Campus Wed., Feb. 18 at 1 p.m.
It’s free and sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences Diversity and Community Outreach Department.
Chideya will speak about “The Color of Our Future: Race and the Media” and sign her book “The Color of Our Future.” Chideya has worked as an ABC News correspondent, an anchor on Oxygen’s “Pure Oxygen”, and has contributed to CNN, Fox, MSNBC and BET.
This talk was originally scheduled for Jan. 27
First trial for stem cell
The world’s first phase one FDA-approved clinical trial using adult cardiac stem cells to treat heart disease world was announced Wed., Feb. 11. The trial will be conducted at University of Louisville and Jewish Hospital.
The news conference was held at Abell Administration Center with the prescence of U of L President James Ramsey and study leader Roberto Bolli, Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Institute Distinguished Chair in Cardiology.
