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Noted ecologist Diana Wall will return to her native Kentucky Sept. 12 to give a free, public talk at the University of Louisville.

The Cressman Center for Visual Arts will open an exhibit Sept. 6 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. that features Echo Press prints from its collection. The opening night is part of the city’s First Friday Trolley Hop.

Before Wikipedia, there was “Encyclopédie”—a 35-volume work published between 1751 and 1780 that told people everything from how to print playing cards to how to manufacture a gun and perform surgery.

The University of Louisville-Yearlings Club fall lecture series will open with a Sept. 8 look at Jefferson County Public Schools and continue with discussions of the Voting Rights Act, African American women’s achievements and a holiday reception.

It was an easy decision for junior Clay Jernigan to give up his campus parking permit for two years in exchange for a $400 voucher to buy a bike or bike accessories.

The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville will award its 2014 Brandeis Medal to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eugene Robinson. The medal is the law school’s highest honor.

There’s more to peace than stopping war and violence and there’s more to the world than your own backyard. Those are the overall messages UofL students, faculty and staff will get when they attend the Sept. 19 early commemoration of the United Nation’s International Day of Peace.

UofL’s McConnell Center will offer four free, public talks this fall in a series called “Milestones of the 20th Century: Democracy in America.”

The University of Louisville has been selected as a study site for a clinical trial researching a vaccine to prevent infection from a bacterium that primarily affects older patients in hospitals or long-term care facilities who also have taken broad-spectrum antibiotics.

Several hundred students, faculty, staff and friends of UofL marched from the Red Barn to the Humanities Quadrangle Aug. 28 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.