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William Tse, MD, associate professor of medicine and eminent scholar in hematologic malignancies research at the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at West Virginia University, has been named the new director of Bone Marrow Transplantation at the University of Louisville James Graham Brown Cancer Center, a part of KentuckyOne Health. Tse will join UofL Nov. 1.

UPDATED: Due to expected rain, the Corn Island Storytelling Festival is being moved indoors to the George J. Howe Red Barn on the Belknap Campus. The new location, and changes to some planned activities, are shown in bold below.

University of Louisville President James Ramsey kicks off his annual outreach tour with visits to high schools in Nashville, Tenn., and Barren and Warren counties in Kentucky.

Could President Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 launch of the “War on Poverty” have been more successful if it had included land use and environmental policies?

Ushering in a new era in medical education, officials with the University of Louisville School of Medicine formally celebrated the completion of a $9 million renovation of the school’s 40-year-old instructional building.

A newly FDA-approved treatment for patients with advanced or inoperable melanoma who are no longer responding to other drugs is now available to patients at the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center, a part of KentuckyOne Health. As a site for Keytruda’s research clinical trial, the cancer center is the first in Kentucky to offer the drug now that it is approved.

The Health Sciences Center campus is kicking off PRIDE Week with a blood drive Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. that will help local blood banks rebuild critical supplies while drawing attention to the federal Food and Drug Administration’s lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men.

Grace Brown and Kaelyn Siversky, founders of Project Unbreakable, will be the featured speakers at Take Back the Night, an annual University of Louisville event to raise awareness about violence.

University of Louisville law and medicine professor Mark A. Rothstein has received a two-year, $612,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to foster international collaboration on genetic research while maintaining human rights and privacy.