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 Low-income Kentucky students to receive free tuitionThis week President James Ramsey announced the Cardinal Covenant, a promise to help students from low-income families graduate debt-free. It is targeted to the 22.6 percent of Kentucky families who live at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty line. Eligible students will have tuition, room, board and books paid for until they graduate as long as they meet all program rules. The program is the first of its kind in Kentucky. ORANGE BOWL MANIA - UofL vs. Wake, 24-13Kragthorpe Chosen to Lead Cardinals Football
Missed Miami? Check out our photo album
Amobi and Chace: Friendship is strong medicine
School of Music to host concert at Carnegie Hall
Outstanding student realizes deferred dream
Chen named dean of Brandeis School of LawNationally recognized legal scholar Jim Chen has been named the new dean of the Brandeis School of Law. His expertise includes law and technology, law and science, environmental law, agricultural law, telecommunications, regulatory law and policy, statutory interpretation and constitutional law. |
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Steve Kragthorpe, the former head coach at Tulsa University and the architect of one the nation's most heralded rebuilding efforts, has been named the 20th head football coach at UofL. Kragthorpe was formally introduced at a press conference Tuesday in the press lounge at U of L's Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. Kragthorpe takes over for Bobby Petrino, who was named the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons on Monday and ended his U of L tenure with a 41-9 record.
Sun.
Surf. Sand. South Beach. And a football game, too. "UofL" magazine editor
Kevin Hyde and photographer Tom Fougerousse shared their Orange Bowl adventures
through a blog, "Orange Slices: Sharing the Bowl Experience." We're also posting
photos from Orange Bowl game-watch parties across the nation! 
Chace
Recktenwald was having a tough time. It was September 2005 and, just four
days earlier, the Louisville 6-year-old had undergone surgery to correct
an abnormality of his brain stem. The operation
was a success, but Chace was struggling with pain and a long hospital
stay. That changed when UofL defensive end Amobi Okoye paid him a visit.
The
UofL Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble will headline a special Grawemeyer
Award concert at New York's
Carnegie Hall Thursday, March 8. They will perform
works of previous winners of the UofL Grawemeyer Award
for Music Composition. The 2007 recipient of the $200,000 award also will
be announced. Concert tickets are available through the School of Music,
502-852-6907 or as part of a travel
plan option coordinated through 
Blindness
didn't discourage Tracey Frazier from becoming a lawyer. The advice of others
did, but only for a while. It's too difficult -- set more realistic goals,
they told her. "I can't wait to tell them they were wrong," said Frazier,
Brandeis School of Law outstanding fall semester graduate and student speaker
at UofL's winter commencement.