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UofL's pop-up Urban Design Studio created to position Louisville for the future

November 2, 2021

The design of cities directly affects human and environmental health, and with health and ecological disasters unfolding around the globe seemingly daily, urgency is growing for public-health and urban-design professionals to collaborate to improv

The 'black death' still has lessons to share: UofL's bubonic plague research yields clues to fighting pneumonia

November 1, 2021

Bubonic plague may not seem like a significant problem in the world today. While it killed millions of people in Europe in the Middle Ages and was known as the “black death,” it mostly has faded from public concern.

UofL therapists in the national spotlight for volunteering time, services to support racial justice protesters

October 29, 2021

As protesters hit Louisville’s downtown in summer 2020 to seek racial justice, some skilled supporters mobilized to look after them.