By Lindsey Piercy

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 26, 2022) — Keaton Upshaw, a senior tight end for the Kentucky Wildcats, understands the demand of one of football’s true hybrid positions.

Running routes and catching passes on one play, then blocking a linebacker the next, means taking extra steps in practice to be prepared. It means sometimes going the extra yard.

On the gridiron, Upshaw has coaches to guide him. But off the field, he also has someone who is encouraging him to do more, learn more and be more.

By Nizhoni McDarment

LEXINGTON, Ky.  -- The University of Kentucky’s Delta Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honors Society, recently received a Best Chapter Award for the 2021-22 school year.

The UK chapter was one of six institutions, similar in size, to receive this award out of more than 800 Pi Sigma Alpha Chapters in the United States.

By Richard LeComte 

LEXINGTON, Ky – As Black women gained economic status in the United States, one of the big issues that arose involved what their daughters’ toys would look like. It’s an issue Aria S. Halliday finds fascinating.  

By Richard LeComte

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Nolia Williams spent her summer mixing her psychology and journalism majors in western Kentucky, where she got to talk to people affected by the ravages of environmental disasters. 

By Erin Wickey

By Meg Mills 

Nizhoni McDarment

Dear Alumni and Friends, 

It has been an engaging and productive fall semester in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and at the University of Kentucky (UK). We started the semester strong by welcoming almost 1,700 new first-year undergraduate students into our A&S family as part of UK’s largest incoming class of 6,100 students. The semester ended with our December Commencement, where we celebrated over 400 undergraduate and graduate students completing their degrees 

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