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Biology Post-Doctoral Researcher Oliver Voecking Receives Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career-Starter Grant

By Jennifer T. Allen

Oliver Voecking, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts & Sciences, recently received a Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career-Starter Grant for his retinal research with zebrafish. The Knights Templar presented Voecking with…

2019 Vandenbosch (Political Science) Awards Banquet

The Political Science Department held its annual awards banquet on Thursday, 25 April 2019 -- with a greatly expanded set of awards thanks to the generosity of our program's alumni. Held in the President's Room of the Boone Center (i.e., the faculty club), it drew a large crowd of students,…

Storytelling Session : Financial need on Campus.

The event, Storytelling for Change, was sponsored by a grant from the Student Center Challenge Grant, Office of Institutional Diversity, and Office of Community Engagement-all provided support to SOC 435 which organized the event.

 

SOC 435 has been a year-long course/…

International Symposium: Comparative Perspectives on #MeToo - Day One

The two-day, international symposium, "Comparative Perspectives on #MeToo," kicked off today with people from around the world coming together on the University of Kentucky campus to explore the global impact of the #MeToo movement.

Talking About Race – A Book Talk and Discussion with Ijeoma Oluo

New York Times bestselling author, Ijeoma Oluo presented her book “So You Want to Talk About Race,” along with a discussion centered around the themes of the book, and the importance of talking about race on campus and beyond.

The event took place March 26th at The Niles Gallery, Lucille…

J.C. Eaves Lecture - Tara Holm

Speaker: Tara Holm is a Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University.

Title: Understanding Symplectic Geometry through Polytopes and Lattice Points

Abstract: Topology is often called ``rubber sheet geometry" and is described as ``floppy" while geometry is more…

Black In Blue Reception and Panel

Student Activities Board, Gatton Student Center, and the College of Arts and Sciences invited students, faculty, staff and community members to the "Black in Blue" film premiere. The free, public event was held  Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Worsham Theatre in the Gatton Student…

International Fashion Show

The College of Arts & Sciences “Passport To The World - Year of Migration” presented an international fashion show by local designer and activist Soreyda Benedit Begley at the Gatton Student Center. Benedit-Begley presented her “Our Ancestry” collection, which is dedicated to the …

Kentucky SkyTalk: The Star of Bethlehem

The University of Kentucky Department of Physics and Astronomy and the MacAdam Student Observatory presents Kentucky SkyTalks as part of an ongoing outreach series. Each SkyTalk starts with a 40-minute presentation about astronomy followed by an opportunity to visit the…