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Could President Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 launch of the “War on Poverty” have been more successful if it had included land use and environmental policies?

Ushering in a new era in medical education, officials with the University of Louisville School of Medicine formally celebrated the completion of a $9 million renovation of the school’s 40-year-old instructional building.

A newly FDA-approved treatment for patients with advanced or inoperable melanoma who are no longer responding to other drugs is now available to patients at the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center, a part of KentuckyOne Health. As a site for Keytruda’s research clinical trial, the cancer center is the first in Kentucky to offer the drug now that it is approved.

The Health Sciences Center campus is kicking off PRIDE Week with a blood drive Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. that will help local blood banks rebuild critical supplies while drawing attention to the federal Food and Drug Administration’s lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men.

Grace Brown and Kaelyn Siversky, founders of Project Unbreakable, will be the featured speakers at Take Back the Night, an annual University of Louisville event to raise awareness about violence.

University of Louisville law and medicine professor Mark A. Rothstein has received a two-year, $612,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to foster international collaboration on genetic research while maintaining human rights and privacy.

While public support for higher education wanes, the University of Louisville will not waver from its mission to be a force for positive societal change, UofL President James Ramsey said Wednesday during his annual State of the University address.

Eco-Reps, a University of Louisville sustainability training program, has received a top award from the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, a nonprofit group based in Washington, D.C.

Faculty members whose work has resulted in U.S. patents and licenses were honored Sept. 16 at the 2014 Celebration of Faculty Excellence.

As part of 2014 State of the University Week, the administration Sept. 16 held the 2014 Celebration of Faculty Excellence. The awards were conferred by Provost Shirley Willihnganz and William Pierce, executive vice president for research and innovation.