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A Flowering Tribute: English professor's book inspires new species name

January 26, 2012

While promoting her 2010 biography “The Discovery of Jeanne Baret,” author and University of Louisville English professor Glynis Ridley suggested to a radio interviewer that Baret—the first woman to circumnavigate the planet—deserved to have a plant species named in her honor.

Clover steps down as public health dean

January 26, 2012

After helping establish and leading the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences for 10 years, Dean Richard Clover is stepping down.