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Why are there giant sunflowers behind the University of Louisville’s Urban Studies Institute at 426 W. Bloom St.?

Downtown visitors and Ekstrom Library users can examine student-decorated altars dedicated to civil rights leaders and others during the annual Day of the Dead celebration honoring the lives of special people.

“All Aboard!” Archives and Special Collections at the University of Louisville will open a multi-gallery exhibit celebrating its collections of Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N) materials Nov. 6, with a 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. reception in the east wing, lower level lobby of Ekstrom Library.

University of Louisville officials and students cut the ribbon Oct. 18 on the 128,000-square-foot Student Recreation Center on Fourth Street near Kurz and Minardi halls. The building will open for student use on Monday, Oct. 28.

Still have old videotapes or computer diskettes you don’t know what to do with? You’ll have a chance to recycle them for free Oct. 22 when UofL celebrates national Sustainability Day.

Homecoming always means a football performance with one of the day’s highlights being the halftime crowning of the king and queen. For others, another performance — the National Pan-Hellenic Council Step Show — is the highlight of homecoming weekend.

University of Louisville President James Ramsey has been named 2013 Communicator of the Year.

Sodexo will host its third annual Farm to Table dinner from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Ville Grill on Belknap Campus.

If you’re concerned about breast cancer, you may be wondering if there are steps you can take toward breast cancer prevention.

Getting a college education wasn’t on the radar for Lance West when he was growing up in a housing project. Then the federally funded Upward Bound program changed his life.