Mark Hebert – UofL News

International students flock to UofL

Mark Hebert — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:26:04 +0000

The number of students coming from around the globe to study at UofL is increasing.�� Sharolyn Pepper, associate director of International Student and Scholar Services, talks about the reasons UofL is recruiting more international students, while Richa Singhal, a graduate student from India, tells us about her experience in Louisville.

Also on this edition of UofL Today with Mark Hebert, Jelani Kerr from the School of Public Health looks at HIV rates in African-Americans and whether they’re tied to America’s drug policy.

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UofL and Clemson: Competitors on the field, collaborators off it

Mark Hebert — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:12:24 +0000

When the University of Louisville and Clemson University clash in one of this year’s most anticipated college football games Saturday, two researchers at the schools won’t be feeling the same animosity toward their ACC rival. UofL assistant professor of physics Jian Du-Caines and Clemson atmospheric physics professor Jens Oberheide are working together on a research project funded by NASA. Du-Caines says the two have been friends since they met at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, in 2005 and began talking about doing a project together.

In 2014, Du-Caines won a highly competitive, 3-year $394,000 grant from NASA to study the variability of tides in the atmosphere between earth and space.

“We want to be able to better forecast weather in space,” Du-Caines says. “The variability of tides is a piece of the puzzle we have to solve to be able to accurately predict day to day weather in space.”

Du-Caines says forecasting weather in space is about as accurate as forecasting weather on earth 50 years ago.

As part of the study, Clemson’s Oberheide is analyzing satellite data to see if it validates the model UofL’s Du-Caines is using to understand the variability of tides (a kind of large-scale wave similar to the Jet Stream) in space. The research is important, according to Du-Caines, to more clearly predict when storms or bad weather above the earth’s atmosphere might impact GPS, power grids, suborbital flights or satellites.

Du-Caines says she and Oberheide are more concerned about their research than what will be happening on the football field.

“We just laugh about it,” Du-Caines says, “though I wish we (UofL) would have won last year!” ��

History professor, students ‘Discover Indiana’ via new mobile app

Mark Hebert — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:55:32 +0000

Did you know New Albany was the largest city in Indiana just before the Civil War or that it was the second largest producer of steamboats in the U.S.? We didn’t either until we heard UofL history professor Dan Vivian talk about the four “Discover Indiana” walking tours he and his students put together on a new app – making them available on your phone.

“There’s a rich and important history there” Vivian said. “But it’s not fully appreciated.”

Listen to Vivian’s . The radio program, which was conducted on UofL Today with Mark Hebert, also featured��Greg Carmichael and Jeff Bailey on UofL’s REACH tutoring and mentoring program, and Stephen Mattingly on UofL’s Guitar Festival, taking place Sept. 15-18.��

Looking at math in new ways

When parents say “I hate math” it gives their kids an excuse not to try and excel at math, according to UofL researcher Jenny Bay-Williams. She says “everyone can be good at math”, even those who say they hate it.��

Listen to Bay-Williams . Also on this program,��Patrick Scott talks eye disease and vision problems; and Dr. Jennifer Koch and Dr. Michael Burk unveil a webpage for medical school lectures that anyone can access called Louisville Lecture.��

UofL starting weekly radio news shows on 93.9 FM The Ville

UofL Today — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 09:58:00 +0000

Starting July 27, UofL’s Mark Hebert will host two weekly 30-minute programs on the station. The shows will focus on research and insights from expert UofL faculty, as well as stories about our successful students, and staff and campus events.Called “UofL Today with Mark Hebert,” the shows will air Mondays and Tuesdays at 6 p.m. with replays Saturday and Sunday mornings.“This is a great opportunity for us to showcase our outstanding faculty, staff and students” said UofL President James Ramsey.

Some of the shows will feature UofL experts discussing issues in the news or talking about their current research. Others will include multiple interview segments with students, faculty or staff on a variety of interesting topics.

One of the first shows features faculty members Ricky Jones and Deborah Keeling and Southern Police Institute director Cindy Shain discussing the relationship between local police and the public.�� Another program features segments with Autism Center director Dr. Greg Barnes, HPV and cervical cancer researcher Dr. Diane Harper and the entrepreneurship MBA students who won the “World Series” of business investment competitions.

In addition to the half-hour shows, 93.9 FM listeners will hear 90-second segments featuring faculty and students throughout each day, as well as commercials promoting UofL.

93.9 FM The Ville is part of the ESPN family of radio stations in Louisville.