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There’s more to peace than stopping war and violence and there’s more to the world than your own backyard. Those are the overall messages UofL students, faculty and staff will get when they attend the Sept. 19 early commemoration of the United Nation’s International Day of Peace.

UofL’s McConnell Center will offer four free, public talks this fall in a series called “Milestones of the 20th Century: Democracy in America.”

The University of Louisville has been selected as a study site for a clinical trial researching a vaccine to prevent infection from a bacterium that primarily affects older patients in hospitals or long-term care facilities who also have taken broad-spectrum antibiotics.

Several hundred students, faculty, staff and friends of UofL marched from the Red Barn to the Humanities Quadrangle Aug. 28 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

A steady crowd estimated at more than 500 took advantage of an Aug. 24 open house to get a preview of what judges will see in early October—a combined Kentucky-Indiana effort to take the honors in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2013 Solar Decathlon.

UofL’s Pan-African studies department is turning 40 and will throw a free, public anniversary party Sept. 5.

The world’s leading French horn players will gather at UofL’s School of Music Aug. 30 ‒ Sept. 1 for the 2013 International Horn Competition of America.

Cybercrime and social media, movie heroes and Neanderthals—the College of Arts and Sciences and its Liberal Studies Project luncheon lecture series this fall offers a buffet of topics related to professors’ research and interests.

Physician and author Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. will speak about plant-based diets in two public talks at the University of Louisville and Bellarmine University.

The University of Louisville Hite Art Institute has three new exhibitions in its Schneider Hall Galleries: “Sam Richards: Constructed Sculpture, Part II,” Belknap Gallery; “Rowland Ricketts: Immanent Blue Installation,” Gallery X; and “Precedents: 3 Hite Scholars” featuring Margaret Braden Merida, Carolyn Browning Weng and E. Gordon West, Covi Gallery.