University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

From a Sharecropper’s Farm to a Bachelor’s Degree: The Long, Eventful Journey of UK Student Dorothy Barr-Moore

By Richard LeComte

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Dorothy Barr-Moore loves school. Seriously. She loves it so much that after years of working on her grandparents’ farm, raising four daughters and working as a computer programmer and part-time minister for several organizations, she chose the era of the COVID pandemic to head back to a place she loved — the University of Kentucky — to, at age 71, get her bachelor’s degree.

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Two A&S Students Awarded Fulbright Student Scholarships

By Jenny Wells-Hosley and Meg Mills

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American History Professor Tracy Campbell to be Honored at UK Libraries Spring Celebration

By Emma Reilly

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Wildcat Wednesday: Through Support and Determination, A&S Grad Shows What's Wildly Possible

By Meghan Arrell

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Biology Professor's Work in Regeneration Discussed in BBC Report

Ashley Seifert, associate professor of biology in the University of Kentucky's College of Arts & Sciences, has been researching how African spiny mice have "impressive wound-healing abilities." His work is discussed in the online article "How a mouse could help humans heal better" by Chris Baraniuk. You can read the full article here.

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UK Appalachian Center Honors Seven Students With Annual Research Awards

By Jenny Wells-Hosley

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 26, 2022) — The University of Kentucky Appalachian Center is honoring seven students with its annual research awards.

Four graduate students received the James S. Brown Graduate Student Award for Research on Appalachia, and two graduate students and one undergraduate student received the center's Eller and Billings Student Research Award.

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A&S Announces Recipients of 2022 Outstanding Teaching Awards

By Richard LeComte

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Each year, the University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences honors four faculty members with Outstanding Teaching Awards, one each in the divisions of the Humanities, Behavioral & Social Sciences and Natural & Mathematical Sciences and one for lecturers. 

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A&S Professors Earn Outstanding Teaching Awards

By Jennifer Haynes

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 22, 2022) — Eleven university faculty and teaching assistants were recognized by the University of Kentucky with the 2022 Outstanding Teaching Awards on Thursday, April 21, in the J. David Rosenberg College of Law Grand Courtroom.

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Political Science Student Among UK’s 2022 Sullivan Award Winners

By Jenny Wells-Hosley

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 21, 2022) — Two University of Kentucky students and one local citizen have received UK’s highest honor for humanitarian efforts — the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.