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University of Louisville medical student runners marked the end of the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon and the university’s sixth Medals4Mettle season by presenting their hard-earned medals to pediatric patient “running buddies.”

In 2011, composer Djuro Zivkovic spent four months in a house in the Swedish countryside, writing a commissioned piece in an atmosphere of complete silence.

Diane Ravitch, the 2014 Grawemeyer Award winner in education, drew laughter, applause and even a few tears as she explained how she reversed course from being a champion of results-based public education reform to one of its most vocal critics.

While the prospect of Iran or North Korea becoming a nuclear nation causes frightening headlines, the only countries that have built successful nuclear programs are those that have allowed scientists to do their jobs without political pressure, according to the winner of the 2014 Grawemeyer Award in world order.

A concrete waterfall that adds oxygen to polluted Beargrass Creek. A pilot water treatment plant that uses no fossil fuels or chemicals. A rain garden that drains storm water away from sewers.

Emotions are key to the decision-making process and critical to a well-balanced life, according to Antonio Damasio, the 2014 winner of the Grawemeyer Award in psychology.

A cut in state funding won’t keep UofL from advancing over the next biennium, President James Ramsey said at a campus-wide budget forum April 17.

A former storage facility on the University of Louisville’s Belknap Campus is being transformed into GE Appliances’ first micro-factory, called FirstBuild.

Teams of students from UofL’s J.B. Speed School of Engineering have designed and built scale, solar-powered aircraft and are ready to take to the skies in the 2014 Mickey R. Wilhelm Solar Flight Competition.

A fledgling manufacturing company led by University of Louisville chemical engineering student Amelia Gandara won the recent Startup Weekend Louisville and will compete in this week’s Venture Sharks event.