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University of Louisville Provost Shirley Willihnganz has commissioned a group to identify ways to make UofL a better workplace.

Convincing capricious half-ton racehorses to do your will can take a toll on the human body. The grooms, hotwalkers, exercise riders and other workers who tend to the needs of elite thoroughbred athletes also carry heavy buckets and bales, endure challenging weather conditions, and often travel with the horses to racing meets around the country, making consistent health care difficult.

When James Brown started Fort Knox High School as a freshman, he didn’t know he’d get to earn college credit his senior year.

The UofL Hite Art Institute will open new exhibits this month at both the Cressman Center for Visual Arts and its Belknap Campus galleries.

Inscope, a University of Louisville College of Business graduate student team marketing a wireless laryngoscope, won second place in the Rice Business Plan Competition April 16-18 in Houston.

Kentucky to the World, a Louisville-based series of lectures showcasing individuals with strong Kentucky connections who are well-known in their fields, will present a 1994 graduate of the UofL School of Medicine who today is director of the Recanti/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were disabled on the battlefields of the Civil War. When the conflict ended, the stories of wounded veterans faded into the background of a recovering country.

Laine Lopez, a program coordinator for the University of Louisville’s Cultural Center, was named this year’s LGBT Center Ally Award winner at the Pride Keynote address September 22.

For the past seven years, UofL medical students have run in the Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon or Marathon in honor of patients with cancer and blood disorders in the university’s pediatric hematology/oncology division. This year’s runners presented their race medals to their young buddies in a special ceremony following the races on April 25 in the lobby of the Kosair Charities Clinical & Translational Research Building.

More than 1,500 students are expected to graduate from the University of Louisville this semester, and 875 of those graduates plan to participate in the Dec. 13 winter commencement ceremony at 7 p.m. in Freedom Hall, Kentucky Exposition Center.