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Born that way? ‘Scientific’ racism is creeping back into our thinking. Here’s what to watch out for.

Journalists might want to check the research before declaring that melanin is destiny.

Prof. W. Carson Byrd (Pan-African Studies) writes about ‘scientific’ racism in the 21st century in the Washington Post.

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October 27 at 7pm

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Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins U Applied Physics Lab will give a free public lecture on recent results from the NASA Pluto New Horizons Probe. Event is from 6-7 p.m.

Explore the solar system tonight for free at 6pm

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Dr. Tim Dowling

Prof. Dowling talks science on WHAS radioProf. Timothy Dowling (Physics & Astronomy) was a guest expert on WHAS radio to discuss the possibility of water on Mars. The conversation included other topics, some controversial, including climate change, renewable energy and Kentucky coal. Tony Cruise, the host, commended Prof. Dowling for his aplomb and said off-air, “If I’d had this guy as a science teacher in college I would have paid a whole lot more attention. We’ll have him on the show again.” You can listen to the segment on WHAS radio.

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Register today for the next installment of the A&S All Stars Educational Series on October 24

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The UofL chapter of Habitat for Humanity nailed down its most significant accomplishment to date. The first student-funded Habitat for Humanity house was built in Louisville during Raise the Roof weekend Sept. 17 through 19, 2015.

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The University of Louisville’s Cressman Center For the Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the speakers at this year’s Midwest Regional Society for Photographic Education conference. “Throwing Light / Catching Shadows” explores the correspondences between various historic and contemporary photographic practices, from salt prints to high definition video. In addition, because the exhibition is conceived as a showcase of this year’s presenters, it takes up the conference’s central theme: the intersection of public and private space. Many works from the show engage the tension between private, interior decoration and gestures to public display, like Steve Gompf’s Salesman Sample Televisor, 1901, A (2015) and Margaret LeJeune’s Cynthia from The Modern Day Diana (1991). Other projects, like Tiffany Carbonneau’s Constant Bearing, Decreasing Range (2015) and James Rhem’s God (or Suffer the Little Child) (2015), depict moments when confinement and enclosure overlap with vast openness. In every case, work in “Throwing Light / Catching Shadows” is a testament to the photographic image’s power to capture our most public and our most private experience. The Society for Photographic Education is a nonprofit membership organization that provides and fosters an understanding of photography as a means of diverse creative expression, cultural insight, and experimental practice. This year’s Midwest Regional Conference, “Throwing Light, Catching Shadows,” takes place from Oct. 1-4.

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New evidence shows that the pope can change Catholics’ minds about the culture war

Depends on which Catholics we're talking about.

Political Science Professor David Buckley weighed in on the Pope’s visit to the United States in the Washington Post this week, and on the possibility of a “Francis Effect” on the American Catholic Church. Buckley is the Paul Weber Endowed Chair in Politics, Science & Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences at UofL.

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Prof. Jennifer Westerfeld researches ancient Egyptian history, a time when Romans ruled Egypt and Christianity was flourishing. But just because she studies ancient Egypt, that doesn’t mean she’d want to live there.

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In a fast-paced immigrant community where dreams are often lost to economic survival, two young Chicanas contemplate life when they stir unexpected desires in each other. Mosquita y Mari is a coming of age story that focuses on a tender friendship between two young Chicanas. Yolanda and Mari are growing up in Huntington Park, Los Angeles and have only known loyalty to one thing: family. Growing up in immigrant households, both girls are expected to prioritize the well-being of their families. Yolanda, an only child, delivers straight A's and the hope of the American Dream while Mari, the eldest, shares economic responsibilities with her undocumented family who scrambles to make ends meet. When Mari moves in across the street from Yolanda, they maintain their usual life routine, until an incident at school thrusts them into a friendship and into unknown territory. As their friendship grows, a yearning to explore their strange yet beautiful connection surfaces. Lost in their private world of unspoken affection, lingering gazes, and heart-felt confessions of uncertain futures, Yolanda's grades begin to slip while Mari's focus drifts away from her duties at a new job. Mounting pressures at home collide with their new-found connection, forcing them to choose between their obligations to others and staying true to themselves.

Tonight at 7pm in Ekstrom Library

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A trail of 11 markers noting downtown Louisville civil rights demonstration spots was dedicated in a Sept. 21, 2015 ceremony.

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Talk by Walter Farber, professor of Assyriology, University of Chicago. Farber works include the publication of many cuneiform texts of different genres, as well as lexical, grammatical and bibliographical studies. His contributions have covered such diverse topics as morpheme order in Hurrian; the Akkadian notion of, and terms for

Today at 4:00pm

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Catch “Smoke Signals”  (1998) directed by Chris Eyre this evening

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A trail of 11 markers noting downtown Louisville civil rights demonstration spots will be dedicated in a Sept. 21 ceremony.

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All Arts & Sciences faculty and staff are invited to join Dean Kimberly Kempf-Leonard as she delivers the annual State of the College Address on Sept. 18. A reception will immediately follow in the lobby of Strickler Hall.

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Charles McLeod is the author of a novel, American Weather (Outpost19, 2012), and two collections of stories: National Treasures (Outpost19, 2012), and Settlers of Unassigned Lands (University of Michigan Press, 2015). His fiction has received a Pushcart Prize and appeared in more than two-dozen publications. He teaches in the M.F.A Program at Portland State University.

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Take part in this unique opportunity to hear Wai Wai Nu, founder of the Women’s Peace Action Network in Burma, activist and advocate for Rohingya refugees, speak at the Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy.