The College of Business graduate programs will move downtown to Museum Plaza in 2010--giving graduate students increased opportunities for interaction with the Louisville business community. The Center for Graduate and Executive Education will occupy 40,000 sq. ft. in the 62-story skyscraper, located on Main and Sixth streets.

Kim Edwards (left), author of the best-selling novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter, will be the keynote speaker at this year's Kentucky Women's Book Festival at UofL's Ekstrom Library. The UofL Women's Center sponsors this event, which celebrates the unique voices of Kentucky's women writers. Sessions are free; luncheon is $25. Volunteers still needed.

Three years ago, UofL junior Jessica Riordan was a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Afghanistan. While there, she developed a relationship with the Afghan people that changed her perception of her role in the military and set her on her present course. "Afghanistan changed my world view in many ways," said the anthropology major. "I think about it daily." Riordan's photographs are on display at Ekstrom Library through Feb. 28.

James Graham Brown Cancer Center researcher John Trent (left) is among the first recipients of the Science Innovator Award from Apple Computer Inc. He is being recognized for partnering with Kentucky Dataseam Initiative, a nonprofit organization that harnesses unused computing power in more than 50 school districts across Kentucky into a powerful grid. Trent and his team use the grid, available when students are not in school, to help them search for new compounds that might be developed into cancer drugs.