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June 14, 2022

UofL receives $3.6 million to research health effects of vaping flavorings

By Baylee Pulliam The University of Louisville has received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration to study the effects of flavorings like mango and bubblegum used in vapes and electronic cigarettes. Researchers in the UofL Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, which recently inaugurated  the university’s New Vision of...
Conceptual rendering of the New Vision of Health Campus shows the importance of green space in the design.
May 25, 2022

UofL to create New Vision of Health Campus for pioneering work to increase health equity

By Betty Coffman The University of Louisville is creating a new campus in downtown Louisville to be known as the UofL Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute – New Vision of Health Campus, where study will focus on health as a shared community resource, incorporating environmental and cultural factors. The campus will be both a world-class research center and...
Jun Yan, center, leads research to better understand immune dysregulation leading to acute respiratory distress in COVID-19 and other conditions. Yan and colleagues, including Anne Geller, right, discovered a specific type of immune cell associated with immune system overreaction in 2020 while treating COVID-19 patients. The work recently was funded by $5.8 in NIH grants.
May 9, 2022

UofL teams with Microsoft to explore AI in research

By Baylee Pulliam The University of Louisville is one of a handful of schools selected by Microsoft to explore how artificial intelligence can be used to help researchers.   UofL is one of seven Microsoft Academic Research Consultants, or MARCs, that will study how researchers might leverage the technology to, for example, sift through large data...
Aerial view of Grawemeyer Hall
April 28, 2022

UofL named a ‘Tree Campus’ for the 12th consecutive year

By Jill Scoggins No matter where you’re from, trees and green space are an integral part of the college experience. They make campuses more livable, healthy and beautiful, benefiting students and the environment as a whole. The University of Louisville has embraced this concept and for the 12th consecutive year, has been named among the Tree Campus...
Peyton Deaton, junior Chemical Engineering student, is shown with the leg brace he designed and 3D printed.
April 28, 2022

UofL students help Ronald McDonald House patient with 3D-printed leg braces

By Holly Hinson When University of Louisville political science student Caleb He met patient Harleigh Bond and her family at his job at the reception desk at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kentuckiana (RMHCK), he recognized where he could be of service – and he found just the right resource to help make it happen. Six-year old...
UofL researchers (front to back) Hui Wang, Arjun Thapa and Milinda Bharatha apply a lithium titanate slurry coating to make lithium-ion electrode battery prototypes at UofL’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research. The coated anode material is paired with a corresponding cathode sheet to create lithium-ion batteries.
April 27, 2022

UofL industry/university research center receives additional funding to focus on electric vehicles, infrastructure

By Betty Coffman The announcement earlier this month that a second major automotive battery manufacturer is planning to build a large plant in Kentucky was welcome news for researchers at the University of Louisville’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, which leads fundamental and translational research on batteries. As part of a federally funded industry/research collaboration, Efficient...
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