Celebrate 100 years of Political Science at the University of Kentucky! The Centennial Celebration Reception features Master of Ceremonies Sherelle Roberts (current Political Science Ph.D. candidate) from WKYT’s Let’s Talk Kentucky and Keynote Speaker Nancy Humphrey Grayson (Political Science ’97), President of Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky, and announces the Political Science Distinguished Alumnus honoree. Refreshments provided.
The College of Arts and Sciences announced today that Carol Jordan, a nationally recognized women’s advocate will retire after a 40 years career of public policy, legislative advocacy, research and writing, and the development of programs addressing intimate partner violence, rape and stalking.
Chris Vulpe, MD, PhD. is a Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville in the Center for Environmental
and Human Toxicology. Dr. Vulpe received his MD and PhD from the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Vulpe’s group uses systems level approaches in eukaryotes from yeast to people to identify the functional
components that respond to and modulate the consequences of environmental stressors. Most recently, his laboratory is utilizing genome wide and targeted CRISPR screens to understand the mechanisms of toxicity of environmental chemicals. Dr. Vulpe is an author or co-author on >175 papers in peer reviewed journals and books. His group uses functional, genomic, and genetic approaches to provide insight into mechanisms of toxicity in diverse model systems including human models such as human cell culture, organoids, and rodents, as well as ecologically relevant organisms such as Daphnia magna.
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Plant Science Building (Cameron Williams Auditorium) and Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/j/88492095664
Kurt Rademaker, an archaeologist and University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology alumnus, will present a colloquium titled “On the Trail of Early South Americans in the Andes” at noon Friday, April 14, in the Young Library Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. The talk is co-sponsored by UK’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Human Evolution and Virutal Archaeology Lab.
Rademaker is an assistant professor at Michigan State University. He is interested in human-environment dynamics, the initial settlement of South America, adaptations in extreme environment and hunter-gatherers. After graduating from UK, Rademaker worked as a professional archaeologist in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Basin regions of the United States with several private and federal entities, including the USDA Forest Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Between 2014 and 2015, he was awarded the Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the Tübingen Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Research Prize in Germany. His current work, primarily in Peru, involves transdisciplinary collaboration with earth science colleagues to produce high-resolution paleoenvironmental records and with biological anthropologists and paleogeneticists to study how humans have adapted to live in high-elevation mountain regions, some of the most challenging environments on Earth
“When and by which routes did people first enter South America and successfully adapt to diverse environmental zones?” Rademaker said. “Was the earliest dispersal along the Pacific Coast? How did people first explore and ultimately settle the high-elevation Andes? These intractable questions have challenged archaeologists for decades. In this talk I will review 20 years of my team’s research, including fieldwork at archaeological sites from the high Andes to the Pacific coast and analytical approaches from landscape to molecular scales.”
2023 Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize in Jewish Thought and Culture winner Eric Eisner (Yale University) presents his award-winning essay, "Jewish Rights on Middle Ground: Race and the Religious Test in Antebellum Maryland."
The presentation will take place via Zoom. Please click the following link to register for this special event!
Eric Eisner is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. He has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPhil in American history from the University of Cambridge. His work has appeared in Southern Jewish History and the Journal of Religious History.
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The 1826 Maryland Jew Bill allowed Jewish men to hold political office and positions of public trust. Historians have previously situated the Jew Bill in the politics of Maryland and as part of the religious and legal history of the United States, but they have not considered the importance of race. Maryland, a slave state that also possessed the nation’s largest free Black population, was the country’s “middle ground,” and the state’s racial politics form a necessary context to understand Jewish rights and the redefinition of citizenship in Maryland and the United States.
One Day for UK will be held on Thursday, April 19, 2023, and the College of Arts & Sciences is launching 3 new funds. Our funds focus on elevating our students by providing comprehensive support, programming, and opportunities for success. These funds are:
First Gen Trailblazers Fund will provide scholarships and programs for undergraduate Arts & Sciences students who will be the first in their family to graduate from college. The opportunity to receive a UK degree will transform the trajectories of our students and their families.
The College of Arts and Sciences announced today that Carol Jordan, a nationally recognized women’s advocate will retire after a 40 years career of public policy, legislative advocacy, research and writing, and the development of programs addressing intimate partner violence, rape and stalking.
