February 14, 2014 – It was the College of Arts & Sciences' great honor to recognize our top-achieving students at a reception in the Grand Ballroom on the campus of the University of Kentucky. There were many proud parents and friends on hand to celebrate all the hard work of these…

February 14, 2014 – It was the College of Arts & Sciences' great honor to recognize our top-achieving students at a reception in the Grand Ballroom on the campus of the University of Kentucky. There were many proud parents and friends on hand to celebrate all the hard work of these…

The University of Kentucky's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) formally opened the Pioneer Natural Resources Stratigraphy and Paleo-environments Laboratory at a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, Feb. 14.

The laboratory is situated on the completely renovated ground floor…

The Center for English as a Second Language at the University of Kentucky bid a bittersweet farewell to ten Korean colleagues and scholars that were a part of the Daegu Ministry of Education program over the past year. On Thursday, February 13th, their diligence, commitment, and excellence in…

The English Department hosted a reception on January 23, 2014 to open its new Betty Combs Owen Student Enrichment Center. The Center was made possible through the generosity of Larry Owen, and named in honor of his late wife, Betty Combs Owen, who graduated from UK in 1957. The Center is an…

The Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) was created in the summer of 2010 as a way of highlighting educational development resources and services available to UK instructors. The center is housed on the fifth floor of the King Building (home of the Science Library) in room…

Our visitors from Ecuador and the Go Teacher program had a closing ceremony in the Fall semester of 2013 on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Read more about UK’s unique international partnership that brought the students to campus: esl.as.uky.edu/ecuador esl.as.uky.edu/cesl-helps-bring-…

Chemistry graduate student Liz Pillar recently won the Outstanding Student Paper Award from the American Geophysical Union. The AGU Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, attracting more than 24,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and other…

Photography by: Keith Gilbertson

UK A&S celebrated Day of the Dead on November 2nd by sponsoring the ballet; Dia De Los Muertos. A Spanish-English video-presentation of the actual Holiday in Mexico served as an introduction to the ballet. The Bluegrass Youth Ballet presented the story of a Mexican family as they celebrate…

UK A&S collaborated with the Living Arts & Science Center to celebrate Day of the Dead on November 1st. The Festival showed how Mexicans and various other cultures around the world remember and celebrate their passed families and friends. The festival featured traditional Mexican musica…

Local ecology, stress, hormones and other factors may influence how animals care for their young, and David Westneat is working with a local population of house sparrows to understand how all these variables come together to affect the parenting "personalities" of birds and other creatures.…

Monday, November 18 - A reception was held in Lafferty Hall to honor Associate Professor Sarah Lyon being named the next editor for the Society for Applied Anthropology's premier journal "Human Organization." Jennifer Wies (a graduate of the Department of Anthropology at UK; associate professor…

A&S students participated in a short workshop on how to build an altar for the Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead which was facilitated by Jacobo and Janice Aragon. Students learned how to make paper flowers, cut paper flags, and prepare an altar. At the end of the workshop, they used their…

In celebration of National Chemistry Week, the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry presented a demonstration show on Friday October 25, 2013. This fun-filled evening has become a much-anticipated annual event. Students of the department inform, entertain and amaze the audience of all…

FastTrack for Calculus and FastTrack for Bio-Calc are residential academic program designed to prepare students for rigorous undergraduate mathematics and biology classes before the start of the fall semester. Through FastTrack, students get acclimated to college-level coursework, and have the…

A&S100-021 "Community 101: Learning Lexington" students were "treated" to a Halloween visit by Lexington Mayor Jim Gray in class Thursday. Mayor Gray provided a first-hand account of proposed renovations to Rupp Arena, which is owned by the city and serves as the arena for Big Blue…

A GLIMPSE INTO ANCIENT MEXICO: WRITINGS OF THE AZTECS, MIXTEC AND MAYA This is an exhibit of facsimile codices housed in UK Libraries Special Collections. Codex pages described by Dr. Chris Pool and Mr. Barry Kidder, UK Department of Anthropology. Digital Images by Crystal Heis, Image Management…

Photos taken by Ceci Amador for Viva Mexico.

UK Physics & Astronomy alum Bill Roark successfully worked in the aerospace industry for many years, and started his own company, Torch Technologies. On October 10, 2013, he visited campus to discuss his work experience and how his science background has helped and affected his career path…

On October 10, 2013, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences held a Recognition Ceremony in partnership with Pioneer Natural Resources. Tom Spalding and Donny Loughry, both UK alumni, represented the company and presented two checks - one from Pioneer Natural Resources for $300K for…

The College of Arts and Sciences inducted five new members into its Hall of Fame Oct. 11, 2013, with a ceremony at the Singletary Center for the Arts, bringing the current totals to 34 alumni and 11 emeritus faculty A&S Hall of Fame members.

Alumni Inductees:

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Photography by: Dana Rogers A&S is collaborating with The Living Arts & Sciences Center this year at the Dia De Los Muertos Festival in Lexington, KY. Here is a collection of photographs from previous celebrations. Join us on November 1st from 5 - 9pm at the Living Arts & Science…

Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, A&S students gathered on the student center patio for a celebration of our fourth year of the Passport to the World initiative - "¡Viva México!" Students enjoyed free food, free T-shirts, music and games. This was the start of our year-long celebration of art,…

The historic Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in downtown Lexington was host to the 35th annual Kentucky Women Writers Conference. Writing workshops, craft talks, and panel discussions took place there on September 20-21, 2013. Featured presenters in this album include poet and essayist…