By Stephanie Godward, Communications and Marketing Director, College of Arts & Sciences
Rebekah Flowers amplifies her great-grandmother's voice with audio recordings in an art installation depicting a historical plantation living room, challenging how narratives about slavery are presented to spark change-making conversations for the future.
We're proud to honor our Dean's Scholars for Fall 2024 — students who achieved the pinnacle of academic success! These exceptional Cardinals earned a perfect 4.0 GPA while completing at least 12 graded credits, demonstrating unwavering dedication and mastery across all their coursework.
Dean's Scholar status represents the highest level of academic achievement at the University of Louisville. Congratulations to these outstanding students who exemplify academic excellence at its finest!
We're thrilled to celebrate our Dean's List honorees for Fall 2024! These dedicated students demonstrated exceptional academic performance by earning a 3.5 GPA or higher while completing at least 12 graded credits — all while maintaining high academic standards with no grades below C-minus.
Their commitment to excellence, rigorous coursework, and outstanding achievement exemplifies the Cardinal spirit. Congratulations to all our Dean's List students on this well-deserved recognition!
Rasheed Adedoyin Ismaila's abstract submission titled, "Double Unconsciousness: Dilating the Soul of Black Immigrants in the US," has been accepted for presentation at the 49th Annual Conference of the National Council for Black Studies, which is slated from March 19-22, 2025, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Also, his submission, “African and African American Characters in African American and African Plays: A Critical Discourse on Cultural Tension,” has been accepted for presentation at the 2025 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture.
By Stephanie Godward, Communications and Marketing Director, College of Arts & Sciences
The College of Arts & Sciences recently launched a new Disability Studies minor in response to a growing need expressed by students across various disciplines for more academic exploration of disability issues.
The Department of Geographic & Environmental Sciences at the University of Louisville has released its Spring 2025 newsletter, highlighting exceptional student achievements and groundbreaking faculty research initiatives. Notable successes include Jordan Sharp winning the Best Master's Paper award at SEDAAG 2024, undergraduate Dominic LaDuke being selected as a UofL Brand Hero for community-engagement research and Rebecca Dixon earning a Top 3 A&S Poster Award at Research! Louisville 2024.
My name is Andrea Miles, and I am thrilled to embark on the next phase following my exciting journey to earn my PhD. My dissertation, “Black Rebels” African American Revolutionaries from North Carolina During and After the American War for Independence,” examines the factors that motivated free men of color to overwhelmingly join American Revolutionaries, who sought to preserve slavery instead of British forces who offered freedom to the slaves.
Catalogs in Cyan: An Ode to their Keepers is the product of a collaboration between fiber artist Sarah Jane Castellon, printmaker Erica Lewis (EVPL), and the students in their respective classes: ART 381: Introduction to Fiber Art & Mixed Media and HUM 151: Creativity & the Arts---the former of which features our department's very own Meg Kennedy. The artwork was installed in the UofL Art Library at the end of this semester and will feature a reception on 1/23/25 from 4:00-6:00.
The Hite Institute of Art and Design is excited to announce our Fall 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition: Relevance. On view in the Schneider Hall Galleries November 14 – December 6, 2024. Our graduating group this semester includes Hope Arnett, Rebekah Flowers, Sophia Fowler, Clare Hart, Kim Wang, and Barry Wolvin.