A lot of hard work is going into renovating the long time student center. Luckily even through all the chaos it still bleeds blue!

On Saturday, June 20, 2015, Lina Crocker, Senior Lecturer at the Center for English as a Second Language, and her husband led a group of 40 CESL students on a trip to the Cincinnati Zoo. The visit was a special experience for the students, many of whom had not previously been to a zoo.

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On Saturday, May 30, the Morris Book Shop hosted the first installment of the African American & Africana Studies Reading Series and welcomed DaMaris B. Hill to share poems from her latest publication.

About the book: \ Vi-zə-bəl \ \ Teks-chərs \ (Visible Textures) is…

On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, the College of Arts & Sciences hosted its annual Outstanding Staff and Years of Service awards program. All A&S staff and student employees were invited to participate in the program held in Memorial Hall.

A new student employee specific award was…

By Lori Johnson

On Friday, May 8, 2015, The Department of Chemistry hosted its second annual Graduation Celebration & Student Awards Ceremony in Dawson Lecture Hall of the Chemistry-Physics Building. The ceremony recognized graduating students from both the undergraduate and graduate…

The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research and the Society for the Promotion of Undergraduate Research (SPUR) hosted the Showcase from 3-6 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, in the Student Center Grand Ballroom. Each year, the Showcase brings together undergraduates from all disciplines…

The 2015 conference focuses on Black women’s bodies in motion. Dance, both sacred and secular, has been a critical space for expression and community building. This year the conference included dancers, scholars of dance and dance workshops as ways to explore the importance of dance in the lives…

On Friday, May 1, 2015, the Department of English at the University of Kentucky held their Thirty-Fourth Annual Awards Ceremony in the Lexmark Public Room in the Main Building. The keynote address, “That and a Quarter Will Buy You a Coke,” was delivered by Kip Cornett, UK English Department…

The College of Arts and Sciences honored distinguished faculty and teaching awards winners for the past year on April 22, in the WT Young Library Auditorium.

The recipients of this year's College faculty awards are:

19 students affiliated with the Greenhouse living-learning community participated in a cleanup along Town Branch Saturday afternoon, April 25. April is Earth Month and the activity was part of the Great American Cleanup, which is organized locally by Keep Lexington Beautiful (part of LFUCG). We…

18 April 2015 - The Army ROTC held their Military Ball at The Grand Reserve in Lexington, KY with LTC Aire C. Richards as the Guest Speaker.

On Friday, April 17th 2015, the Department of Chemistry hosted the Eighteenth Annual Lyle Ramsay Dawson Lecture. The Lecture was given by Geoffrey Coates of Cornell University on the topic of New Polymers from Old Monomers: Advances Enabled through Catalyst Design.

This year, the Dawson…

The University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies presented its Excellence in Writing Awards to UK undergraduates, faculty and community writers. Hosted graciously by the outstanding staff of the Boone Center. Four excellent writers…

On April 3, 2015, the College of Arts & Sciences' was honored 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 exceptional Dean's…

The students and community partners of Community Mapshop presented a final review of their mapping projects on Thursday, April 9th, in the Peace Gallery at UK.

The student teams discussed their projects around issues of:

- housing, vacancy, foreclosures - food insecurity, retail…

Filmmakers Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle visited the University of Kentucky, Tuesday, March 24, to screen and discuss their film “Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story,” in the auditorium of William T. Young Library. In a news release about the film, Stephens stated, “MTR (…

By Whitney Harder

With new renovations completed over the 2014-15 winter break, the UK Mathskeller unveiled its new look at an open house on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - hosted by the Department of Mathematics and College of Arts and Sciences, in room 63 in the basement of the White Hall…

April 2014 the Hilton Lexington, KY with Colonel James R. Crider as the Guest Speaker and Wall of Fame Recipient.

On May 9, 2014 - The Spring Joint Commissioning Ceremony (Army and Air Force ROTC programs) took place at Memorial Hall on the University of Kentucky campus. Following the ceremony, the newly commissioned 2LTs were given the opportunity to receive their First Salutes near the flag pole in front…

Bonnie Jo Campbell’s keynote reading included her talk and slide show, “What I Learned from My Mother.” The mother-daughter relationship looms large at the Women Writers Conference, and it was both hilarious and inspiring to learn about Bonnie’s remarkable mother and the influence she’s had on…

April 20, 2013 Crowne Plaza Lexington, KY Photography by: Amelia Stevens

The first Leadership Lab of Spring semester, the Battalion takes time to award Cadets for their hard work during the previous semester. Cadets are recognized for academic excellence (GPA of a 3.2 or higher), excelling in physical fitness (score of 270 or higher), all around top cadet from each…

May 4, 2012, UK Army and Air Force ROTC Cadets were commissioned as 2nd Lieutenants in the United States Army and Air Force, respectively. The ceremony took place in Memorial Hall on UK's campus and was followed by a reception in the Small Ballroom of the Student Center. May 20, 2012, Centre…

LTC Cummins invited one of his past students from West Point, CPT Jason C. M. Davis, to share his valuable junior officer experience with the Battalion as they enjoyed an early breakfast. CPT Davis was an inspiration to the Cadets. Photos provided by LTC Brad Harrington.

Dean Kornbluh hosts a 5K for A&S Staff and their families to run with the UK ROTC programs to foster collegiality and encourage fitness. The 5K run/walk course starts and ends at Buell Armory, and healthy refreshments are available afterwards in Buell Armory.