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Rasheda Ali joins the fight to knock out Parkinson’s disease

May 22, 2017

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rasheda Ali has made it her mission to help people better understand and manage Parkinson’s disease, a condition her father, Muhammad Ali, battled for more than 30 years.

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UofL’s Conn Center to grow industrial hemp and kenaf for energy research

May 17, 2017

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research will plant two varieties of industrial hemp and a strain of kenaf on the Belknap Campus.

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Native son, Nobel laureate, genetics pioneer

May 17, 2017

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Kentucky native who won the Nobel Prize for research that advanced the understanding of gene structure, Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., will visit UofL on May 25.