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The 2021 raiseRED reveal celebration was held outdoors due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with some students celebrating from their cars.
February 11, 2022

raiseRED planting seeds to grow UofL’s Community of Care

By Janet Cappiello The raiseRED student fundraising organization that benefits seriously ill children and their families is already the University of Louisville’s largest student-run philanthropic organization, a bright example of our Cardinal principle that we are a Community of Care. Organizers are also working to plant seeds to spread that principle throughout Louisville and Southern...
A 1903 cast of “The Thinker” by Auguste Rodin has been a campus landmark at the University of Louisville since 1949.
February 10, 2022

UofL has once again been named a top research institution

By Baylee Pulliam The University of Louisville has once again been named a top U.S. research institution.  The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, recently finalized, once more has  designated UofL a “Research 1” doctoral university with very high research activity. UofL is one of only 146 universities – roughly 4% of those considered...
The Charles H. Parrish Jr. Freedom Park, created in 2012, pays homage to nine civil rights champions with ties to the University of Louisville
January 26, 2022

UofL’s Faculty Senate informed of $82 million in available funding through UofL Foundation

By Talia Horn UofL’s Faculty Senate held its latest meeting Jan. 12, during which senators received updated enrollment figures, student retention rates, a budgetary overview for the university and information on the $82 million in available funding for academic units through the University of Louisville Foundation. Interim President Lori Gonzalez provided senators with current student...
Riham Abouleisa, right, and AbouBakr Salama, members of the UofL research team
January 24, 2022

New gene therapy for heart failure developed by UofL researchers

By Betty Coffman A UofL research team has refined a process in which specific genes administered to heart muscle cells stimulate the cells to divide, with the goal of restoring heart function following a heart attack. Tamer M.A. Mohamed, assistant professor of cardiology, along with colleagues in UofL’s Institute of Molecular Cardiology and elsewhere, have...
UofL student Taryn Kerley and her Audrey Nethery will be raising funds for raiseRED.
January 24, 2022

UofL and UK put rivalry aside to fight pediatric cancer

By Alicia Kelso It’s undoubtedly one of the biggest rivalries in all of college, but the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky will put their differences aside this week for a united fight against pediatric cancer and blood diseases. The Commonwealth Cup kicks off today and runs through the week, featuring a bevy...
January 11, 2022

UofL solar energy startup secures $2 million in funding

By Baylee Pulliam A University of Louisville research-backed startup has secured $2 million in funding to further development of a technology meant to make solar power more accessible. The startup, Bert Thin Films, plans to use the new funding — via a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and $1 million in...
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