The University of Kentucky Intercollegiate Debate Team reached the final four in the season opener at Georgia State University last weekend. UK's team includes the top-ranked returning partnership in the nation, juniors Dan Bannister and Anthony Trufanov.
After spending nine seasons in Indianapolis, Denver and Atlanta as a tight end in the National Football League (NFL), former University of Kentucky football star Jacob Tamme decided to take on a new challenge — building and running a farm on his family’s land in Boyle County.
University of Kentucky Libraries is now accepting applications for their Undergraduate Diversity Scholar Internships through Sept. 10. This paid internship will provide students who have an interest in diversity and promoting multicultural awareness the opportunity to experience professional level work within an academic library setting and gain valuable research and communication skills.
Alex O’Keefe, a recent University of Kentucky library and information science graduate, joins the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library and Yale Center for British Art Research Library at Yale University as a Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship.
Simidele Adeagbo uses her athletic success to help others and pave the way for future generations. The recent Olympian and University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media in the College of Communication and Information alumna has recently been selected for the inaugural Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa Program. She beat out 10,000 applications for one of the 200 spots available.
University of Kentucky health communication researcher Don Helme is partnering with the Kentucky Attorney General’s office to gauge public opinion on a new drug deactivation pouch, part of a larger effort to develop solutions to the state’s opioid epidemic.
Kentucky's literary heritage is being featured around Lexington as part of the new Book Benches public art exhibit to encourage reading.
The 36 fiberglass benches, which depict colorful artistic renderings of books by Kentucky authors, were unveiled in Gratz Park before being stationed in spaces around the city last month. The project, a collaboration between Arts Connect, LexArts and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, features 24 page-turning sculptures with connections to the University of Kentucky including three benches showcasing books by three professors in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences — Gurney Norman, Frank X Walker and Crystal Wilkinson.
Student-athletes at the University of Kentucky combined to earn a total of 78 spots on the Southeastern Conference First-Year Academic Honor Roll, the league announced recently.
The Association for Communication Excellence (ACE) in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences has selected Laura Fischer, assistant professor for the Department of Integrated Strategic Communication (ISC), in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky, as the recipient of the 2018 ACE Outstanding Dissertation Award. ACE, established in 1913, is an international association of communicators, educators and information technologists that offers professional development and networking opportunities to its members.
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