Spalding University News

Kimberly Newton took time off from her photography career when her son was born prematurely in 2001.

Metro United Way Wednesday announced new board members for 2009-2010. The new board members are: Chris Hermann, E.On U.S. LLC; Beverly Keepers, Spalding University ; Marsha Littlejohn, Manna Inc.

A group of Spalding University students are raising money to travel to Guatemala to help the disabled.

Lemlem Zellelew was one of many people joined on the University of Louisville campus on Tuesday night who had witnessed domestic abuse firsthand.

Husson University announced Wednesday the three finalists in its presidential search process.

Hundreds of alumni and well-wishers turned out Sept. 13 for the blessing and dedication of Presentation Academy's new $5 million Arts & Athletic Center.

The Festival of the Written Word, an innovative literary event, will be held on Wednesday in Louisville.

One demographic group stubbornly resists declining rates in smoking: 18- to 25-year-olds. Almost a third of them still light up, despite all the grim medical evidence, additional costs and public reproach that attend the nasty habit.

The days of lighting up a cigarette on the University of Louisville's Belknap and Shelby campuses are about to end.

For Edie Hemingway, setting and detail make a story worthy of a novel. Hemingway's novel, "Road to Tater Hill," is being published by Delacorte Press, the division of Random House devoted to children ages 9 to 12.

Last week's flash flooding will force more than 220 classes in the University of Louisville's College of Education building to be moved, including to sites off campus such as duPont Manual High School, school officials said Tuesday.

Blake Haselton sat amid toy space shuttles and outer-space posters at his makeshift desk in the Rausch Planetarium gift shop.

The University of Louisville continues to clean up after this week's record rainfall and flooding.

The University of Louisville says at least one building on campus will not be ready for the fall semester.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 For the first time in history , the braille version of a novel was released prior to the premiere of the print version to the general public.

In her second poetry collection, Diorama With Fleeing Figures, Merle Lyn Bachman invites readers into a world of memory, foreign lands and "voices uttered by/mouths that are not there," a world in which there are more "murmurs, riddles, questionings" than clear voices and answers.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 For the first time in history , the braille version of a novel was released prior to the premiere of the print version to the general public.

Brittney N. Horn, 18, recently graduated from Waggener Traditional High School and will attend Spalding University in the fall.

Quayshaun Hamilton plans to be the first in his family to earn a college degree, a feat he hopes will inspire his younger brother to pursue higher education.

As a newly laid-off worker from Ford Motor Co., Jeanette Church counts herself as a casualty of the recession.