Info sessions September 30rd at 12pm (free pizza!) and 5pm in the Niles Gallery in the Fine Arts Library!

UK Education Abroad and The Education Abroad Network (TEAN) have partnered to design an innovative new program in collaboration with the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Fine Arts: Bluegrass Down Under.

 

This 12-week program will allow students to earn 13 UK credit hours with courses in English, geography, history, photography, and music history, including an internship or independent research AND up to two UK Core courses.

 

Students will begin the program with six weeks in Sydney while completing two courses. The next three weeks, students will travel to Cairns to complete a third course. Students will conclude the program back in Sydney where they will complete the final course: an internship or independent research.

 

This program includes tuition, housing and some meals, and is offered at a discounted fee for UK students!

Nuclear reactors are very bright sources of neutrinos. The radioactive fission products are neutron rich, and beta decay back to the valley of stability while emitting (electron anti-)neutrinos along the way. This was how the neutrino was discovered, and how we verified that neutrino oscillations explained the Solar Neutrino Problem. More recently, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment discovered a new mode of neutrino oscillation, and the PROSPECT experiment is being planned to search for "sterile" neutrinos.



This talk will first review the basics of neutrinos, their detection, neutrino oscillations, and nuclear reactors as neutrino sources. We'll then take a tour of recent results and next steps, including some surprises in what we've learned about the reactor neutrino source itself.

 

Refreshments will be served in CP 179 at 3:15 PM

Please, join us in welcoming Panagioti Tsolkas as part of our UK Appalachian Center Speaker Series!  This talk is entitled Just Transition not Toxic Prisons: the Fight Against Prison Building in Coal Country.  Mr. Tsolkas will present his talk in Room 208 of the White Hall Classroom Building on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 from 3:30 to 5 p.m.  He is the current Special Projects Coordinator at the Human Rights Defense Center in Lake Worth, FL, the Prison Ecology Project, has been the editor for the Earth First! Journal, and has worked on many other projects and as an activist. This is a free event and has been co-sponsored by the Departments of Sociology and Political Science.  

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Please, join us in welcoming Dr. Susan Hyatt for a talk in the UK Appalachian Center Speaker Series!  Friday, October 16, 2015 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Dr. Hyatt will give a talk entitled We Never Met Strangers--We Met People: Using Collaborative Antrhopology to Uncover Hidden Histories of Race and Religion in an Indianapolis Neighborhood.  This will be held in the White Hall Classroom Building, Room 102 and is a free event, co-sponsored by African American and Africana Studies, Jewish Studies, and Anthropology.  All are welcome to join in a pre-talk conversation from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the UK Appalachian Center, 624 Maxwelton Court (across Limestone from the UK Law Building).  Please, see below for her talk abstract and a brief bio.

We Never Met Strangers—We Met People”: Using Collaborative Anthropology to Uncover Hidden Histories of Race and Religion in an Indianapolis Neighborhood

Susan B. Hyatt

Department of Anthropology, IUPUI

Collaborative ethnography, as defined by Luke Eric Lassiter, is "a very specific kind of ethnography that builds on the cooperative relationships already present in the ethnographic research process… and endeavors to engender texts that are more readable, relevant, and applicable to local communities of ethnographic collaborators (i.e. local publics)." Working with what Lassiter calls "local publics" involves not only making anthropological methods and insights "user-friendly"; it also involves developing and implementing interdisciplinary strategies, including archival work, mapping and various other technologies, in order to provide communities with products that are accessible and useful to them.   

In 2010, Applied Anthropology students from Indiana University in Indianapolis began collecting oral histories, photographs and other memorabilia from African-American and Jewish elders, who had once lived side-by-side in what had once been one of the most multi-ethnic neighborhoods in the city: the near Southside.  While the material setting of the neighborhood has largely been destroyed by successive waves of urban development, post-war upward mobility, and by the construction of an interstate in the early 1970s, its social landscape continues to be fondly recalled by its former inhabitants. In this talk, I explore the stories of those residents, their neighborhood and the project that brought them back together nearly 50 years after the neighborhood was dispersed.  I also describe the multiple products that were created and disseminated through this collaboration. 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Susan B. Hyatt

Dr. Susan Hyatt is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Chair of the Anthropology Department.  She completed her MA in Anthropology at the University of Michigan in 1980.  From 1981-89, she worked as a community organizer in Southwest Chicago prior to returning to graduate school at the University of Massachusetts in 1989, where she completed her PhD in 1996.  As a result of her experiences in Chicago, she became interested in the impact of local-level campaigns for social justice on the low-income and working-class women who are often the backbone of such movements.  That was the topic of her doctoral fieldwork, which she carried out in a deindustrialized municipality in northern England in the early to mid-1990s. After 8 ½ years teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia, in 2005 she moved to the Indianapolis branch of Indiana University where she founded the state’s first MA program in Applied Anthropology.  In 2010, the Indiana Campus Compact awarded her with the Brian Hiltunen Award for the Outstanding Scholarship of Civic Engagement and in 2012, she received the Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement. In the fall 2012 semester, she served as the second Robert Harman Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Applied Anthropology at California State University in Long Beach.

Biology Honors Society

First General Meeting for fall 2017

For more information contact: tribeta.mulambda@gmail.com

- Converse with other students interested in Biology

- Have access to Guest speakers, students panels and more!

- Take trips to the great outdoors like Red River Gorge

-  Biology movie nights!

Membership Information:

• Good Academic Standing
• All students are welcome who turn in an application
• One-time membership fee of $50 (includes cover for trips, food and SHIRT)

If Education Abroad seems overwhelming or confusing, then the fair is the place for you. The event will feature representatives from various colleges highlighting the programs tailored to their students, as well as partner providers that offer even more abroad opportunities.

So stop by, eat some snacks, grab some giveaways and you'll be one step closer to Seeing Blue Abroad!

Title of talk: Generalized Kostka polynomials.