By Francis Von Mann
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 30, 2025) – Nineteen years after first enrolling at the University of Kentucky, Dave Carpenter returned to the College of Arts and Sciences to complete the degree he began in 2006.
Join us on the UK campus this fall to reunite with fellow alumni, faculty and students of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Rast-Holbrook Seminar lecture by Prof. Jack Pashin (UK M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’90) and 2025 Distinguished Geology Alumnus presentation ceremony.
Room 102 Mining and Mineral Resources Bldg.: [physical address = 310 Columbia Ave; also accessible from Rose Street, now called “Alumni Commons”]
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Join fellow alumni, faculty, and friends for an evening of celebration and connection at the UK Geology Alumni Celebration.
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Complete Virtual Orientation Checklist online, to be registered, billed, and counted to start this session.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 30, 2025) — Kentucky NSF EPSCoR’s CLIMBS project will hold a screening of two documentaries that show how communities have endured weather-related catastrophes and the ongoing work to be better prepared for future disasters.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 2, 2025) — This March, the University of Kentucky Alumni Association honored six recipients of this year’s Great Teacher Awards.
Launched in 1961, they are the longest-running UK award recognizing accomplished and passionate educators.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 26, 2025) — The University of Kentucky is well-represented on a list of the most-cited researchers in the world. In a database compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, 136 current UK scientists and scholars appear among the top 2% of the most-cited researchers across 22 disciplines.
By Tom Musgrave
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 25, 2025) — Three University of Kentucky graduates have received awards from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Kentucky NSF EPSCoR’s CLIMBS project will hold a screening of two documentaries. After the documentaries, there will be a panel discussion with a Q&A session about storm resilience, featuring professionals across disciplines. This event will provide an avenue for further collaboration and potential partnerships on this topic across institutions, organizations, and businesses. All Is Not Lost, by the non-profit, Letcher County-based media group Appalshop, underscores the unprecedented nature of the 2022 Eastern Kentucky flood and through in-depth community interviews, and showcases Letcher County's efforts to recover and rebuild. CLIMBS - Kentucky Climate Resilience - The Documentary highlights how CLIMBS, the collaborative research project from KY NSF EPSCoR, is seeking to build climate resilience through interdisciplinary research across the commonwealth.
The films will be followed by a panel discussion emceed by Shane Holinde of WKU and the KY Climate Center, a former TV meteorologist who covered the deadly tornadoes in 2021. Panelists include Rebekah Radtke (UK College of Design), Ryan Thigpen (UK EES & CLIMBS), Aaron Asbury (Film Director at Appalshop), and Trinity Adams (Graduate student at UK Appalachian Center). The free event is July 18, 9:15-noon, at UK’s Worsham Cinema in the Gatton Student Center.
