Marni Davis examines American Jews’ complicated relationship to alcohol during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years of the national prohibition movement’s rise and fall. Davis offers a novel perspective on a previously unstudied area of American Jewish economic activity: the making and selling of liquor, wine, and beer. Alcohol commerce played a crucial role in Jewish immigrant acculturation and the growth of Jewish communities in the United States. But prohibition’s triumph cast a pall on American Jews’ history in the alcohol trade, forcing them to revise, clarify, and defend their communal and civic identities -- both to their fellow Americans and to themselves.

32nd Annual Spring Neuroscience Day, in conjunction with the 11th Annual Spring Conference of the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

Are you an undergraduate conducting Neuroscience research ?   The deadline for abstract submission is approaching fast !

Talk with your research mentor about presenting a poster. Visit the link below to submit an abstract so that you can present a poster at this event.

http://ccts.uky.edu/ccts/2015_Spring_Conf_Abstracts_Call

On September 14, 2015, LIGO detectors picked up a gravitational wave signal coming from the merger of a binary black hole. This is the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first observation of binary black hole and its merger. In this talk we will go over the key aspects of the discovery, and highlight some its implications for fundamental physics and astrophysics.

On Thursday, March 24 Dr. Baldomero "Toto" Olivera will be our visiting seminar speaker to the Biology Department. Dr. Olivera is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah. He is best known for his pioneering work isolating and characterizing peptides from cone snail venom, the conotoxins, which he began studying several decades ago in a bare-bones lab in his native Philippines. His work has provided scientists with research tools to dissect the function of ion channels in the mammalian nervous system and has led to the development of new analgesic drugs, but more importantly Olivera's work illustrates the power of doing basic science to understand the exquisite specificity of the pharmacological agents that have evolved in the natural world. The title of Dr. Olivera's talk is  "Learning Drug Design from Venomous Fish-hunting Cone Snails: Evolutionary Success through Neuropharmacology".    Dr. Olivera's talk will be at 4:00 p.m. in room 116 of the Morgan Biology building. Please join us for what is sure to be a very interesting seminar.

At 4PM on Tuesday, April 5, in POT 745, all interested faculty are invited to a discussion about math department outreach activities for 2016-2017.  Our current and past outreach activities are listed at https://math.as.uky.edu/math-community-outreach, and include our High School Math Day for Women, the High School Math Circle program, and AP Review Day.  The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss our current outreach activities and to determine leadership teams for these programs next year.

The agenda will be to discuss the candidates for our lecturer positions.   The candidate files are available at mathjobs.org.

Abstract: Nanopores are miniaturized electrical sensors with arguably the smallest detection volumes (sub-yoctometers, or below 10^-24 m³).[1]Detection of molecules using nanopores involves electrical monitoring of ion current flow through a pore using a pair of electrodes placed across the nanopore-containing membrane. Our group focuses on the use of nanopores that range from 1 to 10 nm in all dimensions (diameter and thickness). We fabricate such nanopores using a combination of state-of-the-art ultrathin membrane fabrication and focused electron beam irradiation using a transmission electron microscope. Recently, we have found that nanopore dimensions critically determine the quality of detection and discrimination of biomolecules. I will talk about our efforts to distinguish different types of tRNA molecules, RNA-drug complexes,[2]and proteins[3]. In addition, I will mention our efforts to control DNA transport through nanopores, useful for genomic mapping.[4]Finally, I will mention our studies that probe nucleosomal interactions and influence by epigenetic factors,[5]as well as our latest efforts in combining nanopores and optical waveguides for direct DNA sequencing from picogram-level genetic material

"Our Town" brings the extraordinary out of the ordinary lives of the people of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire in the beginning of the 20th century. 

Callie Babcock, a member of the Wired community, will be playing the character of Mrs. Myrtle Webb!

This will count as a Wired event!!

On Tuesday, March 22, our very own Peer Mentor, Nigel Taylor, will be hosting a panel discussion for the College of Communication on "Implicit Bias in Mass Media and Society" at 7:30 PM in Whitehall Classroom Building - Room 118.

The purpose of the panel is to elicit and inspire a campus-wide conversation about mass media and mass society's perpetration of implicit bias of others through stereotypical representations.  Nigel Taylor, communication major and President of Underground Perspective, will serve as the MC and Dr. Anthony Limperios, mass media scholar in the College of Communication and Information, will serve as the panel moderator.

This will count as a Wired Event!!