Office Hours with Peter Berres and Stan Brunn
Our latest Office Hours episode brings you a new host along with a hot topic -- Cuba!
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Civic Engagement on Campus: LEXengaged with Lynn Phillips and Rosie Moosnick
In Fall of 2015, a new initiative to connect campus and community will open its doors. LEXengaged, a Living Learning Community connecting undergraduate students to the city of Lexington, will welcome its first students. Lynn Phillips and Rosie Moosnick, faculty advisors and co-directors of the program, explain LEXengaged and the inspiration behind it.
This podcast was produced by Cheyenne Hohman.
Gaines Center Faculty Member Alex Brooks Named NEH Summer Scholar
Brooks is one of 16 educators who will participate in a seminar titled "Tudor Books and Readers: 1485-1603."
Christine Riordan of University of Denver Named UK Provost
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto Thursday announced that Dr. Christine Riordan ― current dean of the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver ― has accepted an offer to become UK's next Provost.
Three UK Faculty to Present at SEC Symposium
Three University of Kentucky faculty members will present at the first-ever Southeastern Conference Symposium, to be held Feb. 10-12 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. The 2013 edition of the SEC Symposium, titled “Impact of the Southeast in the World’s Renewable Energy Future,” addresses a significant scholarly issue across the range of disciplines represented by the SEC’s 14 member universities.
Boyd Wins Preservation Award for Crawfish Bottom Book
UK oral historian Doug Boyd wins historic preservation award for a book chronicling what it was like to live in the notorious Crawfish Bottom community of Frankfort, Ky. The book was published by University Press of Kentucky.
"See engagement." UK Chemistry Lab Hosts High School Students
Chemistry professor Susan Odom has hosted two Paul Laurence Dunbar High School students in her chemistry laboratory over the past semester, conducting a project that could change the way lithium-ion batteries are produced.
Chemistry Professor Awarded Grant From National Science Foundation
Chemistry Professor Yinan Wei recently received a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a study expected to generate some of the first ever data in her subject matter, which focuses on how proteins oligomerize in cell membrane, or in other words, how membrane-spanning proteins that function in units containing more than one subunit, assemble in nature.
UK Professors Engage High School Science Teachers
The University of Kentucky Biology, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, and Psychology departments are reaching out to area high school science teachers and teaching them something new: what's new in science.
UK History Professor Awarded Fellowship
Jeremy Popkin was recently appointed a fellowship for the 2012-13 academic year by the National Humanities Center
