A&S Course Blends Science and Humanities, Explores Art and Epidemics
A new hybrid course in the College of Arts and Sciences will bridge the gap between to seemingly unrelated areas: art and epidemics.
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Art and Epidemics: UKC 310 with Rita Basuray and Katherine Rogers-Carpenter
Creative expression and disease aren't two topics that are often juxtaposed, but UKC 310: Art and Epidemics, will explore five diseases from a creative and technical angle: tuberculosis, AIDS, cancer, alcoholism, and the plague - through a variety of creative lenses, including film, short fiction, poetry, and art. Rita Basuray and Katherine Rogers-Carpenter will co-teach the fall 2013 course, looking at the parallels between scientific and creative writing, and where these forms diverge.
A New Path Forward: UK Proposes to Self-fund Transformation of Campus
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto Thursday praised the partnership of Gov. Steve Beshear and legislative leaders who are strongly supporting UK's self-financing of a dramatic $275 million transformation of the campus, including a new Academic Sciences building.
Jim Duff Guest Lecture on Historical Presidential Campaigns
2012 A&S Hall of Fame Inductee Jim Duff visited the Currents class on Thursday, October 18, to give a lecture "Presidential Campaigning in Historical Perspective."
Suburban Ecology and Invasive Species Research Experience at UK
Through a National Science Foundation program called Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 10 students from colleges across the country spent 10 weeks studying suburban ecology and invasive species at or nearby UK's Ecological Research Facility.
This video appears courtesy of Reveal: University of Kentucky Research Media research.uky.edu/reveal/index.shtml
University of Kentucky's Dr. Bill Stoops Discusses Recent Tramadol Research
Dr. Bill Stoops talks about his recent research on Tramadol. For more on this story please visit: uknow.uky.edu/content/research-sheds-light-pain-pill-abuse
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What's New in Science - Randal Voss
Professor Randal Voss of the University of Kentucky Biology Department talks about understanding evolution through the human genome.
What's New in Science - Ganpathy Murthy Part 2
Ganpathy Murthy, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, speaks about Big Bang Theory, Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Part 2 - What’s the Evidence for the Big Bang and Expansion of the Universe? What Do We Measure and How? What’s the evidence? How we know the Big Bang happened, and that the universe is expanding and accelerating. How we measure how fast different parts of the Universe are moving away.