On Friday April 18 the Chemistry Department at the University of Kentucky hosted the annual Regional Undergraduate Research in Chemistry Poster Competition. This event, organized by Prof. Edith Glazer, was sponsored by the UK Department of Chemistry and the regional chapter of the American…
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Celebrating National Poetry Month
April 30, 2014 - Poetry was in the air once again this spring as students and faculty from the University of Kentucky participated in a 12-hour open air poetry reading. The event, organized by English professor and published author Julia Johnson, was held outside of the Student Center welcoming…
WRD Awards 2014
On April 14th, 2014 students and faculty from UK A&S WRD gathered in the Hilary J. Boone Center to recognize the award winners of the Kelly Feinberg Memorial Essay Contest; Outstanding TA and instructor; Outstanding Writing Center Peer Tutors & Award-Winning Essays and Digital Projects…
Black Women's Conference
Finding Our Place: A Conference in Honor of the Work and Writing of bell hooks This year is the 20th convening of the Annual Black Women’s Conference. In its history, there are few subjects of interest and important to the lives of Black women the conference has not explored. As we celebrate…
NCUR Session with Chi Woodrich
Undergraduate Anthropology major Chi Woodrich presents research and analysis of his wife's family's biennial reunion on April 3, 2014 at the National Council for Undergraduate Research 2014 conference held on the UK campus. The session drew an audience of 55 and much applause for all three…
Chemistry Learning Center : Now Open
Introductory Chemistry can be a challenge, but Lisa Blue, an instructor within the Department of Chemistry, eases students' transition to college chemistry with the Chemistry Learning Center. It will serve students of General and Organic Chemistry: answer their questions, provide tutoring, and…
Dean's List Celebration - Spring 2014
February 14, 2014 – It was the College of Arts & Sciences' great honor to recognize our top-achieving students at a reception in the Grand Ballroom on the campus of the University of Kentucky. There were many proud parents and friends on hand to celebrate all the hard work of these…
Dean's List Photo Booth - Spring 2014
February 14, 2014 – It was the College of Arts & Sciences' great honor to recognize our top-achieving students at a reception in the Grand Ballroom on the campus of the University of Kentucky. There were many proud parents and friends on hand to celebrate all the hard work of these…
EES Laboratory : Now Open
The University of Kentucky's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) formally opened the Pioneer Natural Resources Stratigraphy and Paleo-environments Laboratory at a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, Feb. 14.
The laboratory is situated on the completely renovated ground floor…
CESL - TESL - Reception - 2014
The Center for English as a Second Language at the University of Kentucky bid a bittersweet farewell to ten Korean colleagues and scholars that were a part of the Daegu Ministry of Education program over the past year. On Thursday, February 13th, their diligence, commitment, and excellence in…
Center For Student Enrichment : Now Open
The English Department hosted a reception on January 23, 2014 to open its new Betty Combs Owen Student Enrichment Center. The Center was made possible through the generosity of Larry Owen, and named in honor of his late wife, Betty Combs Owen, who graduated from UK in 1957. The Center is an…
Welcome to CELT.
The Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) was created in the summer of 2010 as a way of highlighting educational development resources and services available to UK instructors. The center is housed on the fifth floor of the King Building (home of the Science Library) in room…
Go Teacher Fall 2013 Closing Ceremony
Our visitors from Ecuador and the Go Teacher program had a closing ceremony in the Fall semester of 2013 on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Read more about UK’s unique international partnership that brought the students to campus: esl.as.uky.edu/ecuador esl.as.uky.edu/cesl-helps-bring-…
Meet Liz Pillar
Chemistry graduate student Liz Pillar recently won the Outstanding Student Paper Award from the American Geophysical Union. The AGU Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, attracting more than 24,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and other…
Day of the Dead Ballet
UK A&S celebrated Day of the Dead on November 2nd by sponsoring the ballet; Dia De Los Muertos. A Spanish-English video-presentation of the actual Holiday in Mexico served as an introduction to the ballet. The Bluegrass Youth Ballet presented the story of a Mexican family as they celebrate…
Day of The Dead Festival 2013
UK A&S collaborated with the Living Arts & Science Center to celebrate Day of the Dead on November 1st. The Festival showed how Mexicans and various other cultures around the world remember and celebrate their passed families and friends. The festival featured traditional Mexican musica…
Behavioral Ecologist David Westneat at UK's Ecological Research Facility
Local ecology, stress, hormones and other factors may influence how animals care for their young, and David Westneat is working with a local population of house sparrows to understand how all these variables come together to affect the parenting "personalities" of birds and other creatures.…
Department of Anthropology: Sarah Lyon Reception
Monday, November 18 - A reception was held in Lafferty Hall to honor Associate Professor Sarah Lyon being named the next editor for the Society for Applied Anthropology's premier journal "Human Organization." Jennifer Wies (a graduate of the Department of Anthropology at UK; associate professor…
Altar Building Class
A&S students participated in a short workshop on how to build an altar for the Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead which was facilitated by Jacobo and Janice Aragon. Students learned how to make paper flowers, cut paper flags, and prepare an altar. At the end of the workshop, they used their…
Energy Now & Forever!
In celebration of National Chemistry Week, the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry presented a demonstration show on Friday October 25, 2013. This fun-filled evening has become a much-anticipated annual event. Students of the department inform, entertain and amaze the audience of all…
Fast Track 2013
FastTrack for Calculus and FastTrack for Bio-Calc are residential academic program designed to prepare students for rigorous undergraduate mathematics and biology classes before the start of the fall semester. Through FastTrack, students get acclimated to college-level coursework, and have the…
Mayor Gray Visit to Community 101
A&S100-021 "Community 101: Learning Lexington" students were "treated" to a Halloween visit by Lexington Mayor Jim Gray in class Thursday. Mayor Gray provided a first-hand account of proposed renovations to Rupp Arena, which is owned by the city and serves as the arena for Big Blue…
Ancient Codices
A GLIMPSE INTO ANCIENT MEXICO: WRITINGS OF THE AZTECS, MIXTEC AND MAYA This is an exhibit of facsimile codices housed in UK Libraries Special Collections. Codex pages described by Dr. Chris Pool and Mr. Barry Kidder, UK Department of Anthropology. Digital Images by Crystal Heis, Image Management…
