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The University of Louisville's faculty and staff bring more than their professional skillsets to campus every day. They embrace and embody the passion, dynamism and innovation characteristic of a quality higher education experience. On April 18, Interim President Lori Stewart Gonzalez and Interim Provost Gerry Bradley conferred the 2022 Presidential Excellence Awards during the Celebration of Faculty and Staff. The awards recognize the employees whose personal and professional commitments to student success impact the entire university community. Here are this year's winners. Cardinal Principles Champions The Cardinal Principles Champions award honors faculty and staff who demonstrate one of the Cardinal Principles at the highest level of impact. • Kathy Meyer, Community of Care • Asma Addarrat-Edwards, Accountability • Leondra Gully, Respect • Nakia Strickland, Diversity and Inclusion • Avery Kolers, Integrity and Transparency • Mani Vangalur, Noble Purpose • Cecilia Peredo, Agility •
A group of students and faculty members from the University of Louisville's Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research recently had the opportunity to participate in the Solar Decathlon Middle East competition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The event, the largest solar decathlon competition for international universities, featured 14 international teams and took place Oct. 20 to Nov. 21 at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. Over the last 2 years, teams designed and built high energy-efficiency, grid-connected, solar-powered houses, which were set up together in a public showcase village during the World Expo. UofL teamed up with Higher Colleges of Technology, American University of Sharjah and American University in Dubai to form "Team Desert Phoenix." The team fused talents of faculty, staff and students from all four universities to design, build and compete with a state-of-the-science 1,000-square-foot house. UofL's Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research spearheaded
Beshear budget proposal includes $2B investment in K-12 education - Louisville Business First bizjournals.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizjournals.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The University of Louisville J.B. Speed School of Engineering has announced a five-year Memorandum of Understanding with Al Alamein International University (AIU), New Alamein, Matrouh, Egypt. The agreement, signed November 20, 2021, between UofL and AIU establishes an undergraduate bachelor's degree partnership in Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering degree programs. The agreement is known as a "2+2 Program", meaning 50% of the classes will be held at each institution, for both students from UofL and AIU. Students in this program will earn a UofL degree. UofL and AIU intend to enhance relations between the two universities by developing an academic and cultural exchange in teaching, research, and other activities. UofL seeks to increase opportunities for students outside the United States to take UofL classes and obtain UofL degrees, while AIU has expertise and endeavors to support UofL with on-site recruitment, logistical
UofL names 2021 Distinguished Faculty Award recipients uoflnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from uoflnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
UofL students prove not even a global pandemic can slow them down uoflnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from uoflnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Loay Elbasyouni When Loay Elbasyouni was a 10-year old boy growing up on the besieged Gaza Strip in Palestine, he built his first antenna from kitchen parts and aluminum foil so he could receive TV channels. Even then, he envisioned building his own startup company. But having the opportunity to be the electrical lead to design NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet, went beyond even his fertile young imagination. “You cannot imagine the feeling,” Elbasyouni said. “I didn’t sleep at all the night of the flight, I was up watching the feed all night.”
Engineering students Jorge Sanchez and Mercedes Pastor Senior Industrial Engineering students Jorge Sanchez and Mercedes Pastor finished second at the 2021 Student Simulation Competition sponsored by FlexSim Healthcare. This competitive international student contest is hosted by Society of Health Systems within the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. “The competition was about redesigning an ambulatory endoscopy center to help mitigate the negative impacts of COVID-19,” Sanchez said. While including requirements imposed by the Centers for Disease Control on healthcare facilities, the pair were also asked to find ways to optimize the current facility using FlexSim, a simulation software. Once Sanchez and Pastor made the simulation and wrote a paper detailing their improvements, why they made those changes, and their results, they gave a presentation at the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference.