To Your Health: Fight childhood obesity with smart snacking
Any parent knows that growing children learn by example. We may remember to stress, 鈥淧lease!鈥 and 鈥淭hank you!鈥 but ULP physician, Brooke Sweeney, MD, medical director for Healthy for Life! pediatric obesity program, reminds parents of a more important example to set for their kids each day: healthy eating habits.
Flood, hail damage assessed
University of Louisville officials are estimating that cleanup costs from the May 29 downpour and flooding will be $175,000.
UofL’s first green roof tops College of Business addition
The University of Louisville鈥檚 College of Business just got something no other UofL building has ever had 鈥 a 鈥済reen鈥 roof created with living plants and reflective roofing.
IT says: Coming upgrade to make Plone faster
Website administrators and content managers at the University of Louisville will be able to work faster when Information Technology introduces an upgrade to Plone, the content management system (CMS) that departments use to build and maintain their university websites. Plone 4 is expected to be much faster than its predecessor.
North entrance construction to cause road closures
Construction of a new signature entrance to the north end of Belknap Campus will cause some traffic delays beginning Wednesday, June 6, and lasting through July.
Green Scene: A great food city and beyond
Food trucks converge for Derby, city chefs garner national awards, the National Slow Food Congress convenes in Louisville 鈥 all these events highlight Louisville鈥檚 emergence as a great food city, one where people increasingly appreciate and savor the bounty of local fields, pastures and gardens. Kentucky, thanks to the legacy of tobacco, has upwards of 85,000 farms, which places the state fifth nationally.
22 Belknap buildings take on water in May 29 downpour
The interiors of 22 University of Louisville buildings were touched by the heavy rains in the Louisville area Tuesday, May 29, according to UofL Vice President for Business Affairs Larry Owsley.
Tuesday storm floods parts of Belknap Campus
It鈥檚 almost like groundhog day. A torrential downpour May 29 required the University of Louisville to cancel morning and afternoon classes on its Belknap Campus.
Portable planetarium will offer 鈥榦ut of this world鈥 experiences
A portable planetarium that can be set up in 45 minutes and accommodate 20 adults or 30 children will soon begin road shows to area schools and community events.
Helmsley Charitable Trust grants $6.3 million to UofL for neurosurgery research
The University of Louisville has received $6.3 million from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to support research in the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center at UofL developing the next generation of technology to help paralyzed people regain movement in their limbs and enhance their quality of life.






















