UK Geoscience Alum Follows Passion for Earth Science Into the Distillery Industry

By Olaoluwapo Onitiri

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The University of Kentucky has a high-quality environmental geoscience program and has produced excellent geologists like Rachel Nally, who is using the skills she developed through the program in her work as the environmental and sustainability manager at Heaven Hill Distilleries.

A&S Students in 5-Minute Fast Track Competition Show What’s Wildly Possible in Undergrad Research

By Olaoluwapo Onitiri 

LEXINGTON, Ky. – In October 2021, The University of Kentucky announced the top 10 finalists for the fourth annual 5-minute Fast Track competition. Run by the Office of Undergraduate Research, the 5-Minute Fast cultivates students’ presentation and research communication skills and challenges them to describe their research within five minutes.  

Sexual Violence and the State: A Racial History of Legal Castration

Friday, April 8th
 
Dr. Greta LaFLeur, Associate Professor of American Studies, Yale University
 
11 am, Gaines Center for the Humanities, Bingham-Davis House
Work-in-Progress Discussion with Dr. LaFleur: “Trans Feminine Histories, Piece By Piece” 
All are welcome! Download a copy of the essay to be discussed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10-t89dqjpHiyiZxmcsPSoDHdz2Ccpzwn/view?…;
 
2pm, The Cornerstone - UKFCU Esports Theater
Keynote Address: "Sexual Violence and the State: A Racial History of Legal Castration"
 
CO-SPONSORS: English Department, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Early American Literature
 
Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of science, the history of race, the history and historiography of sexuality, and queer & trans studies. Her first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), reveals how eighteenth-century race science contributed to emerging sciences of sex in the colonial Atlantic world. Other publications include Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Cornell UP, 2021) and an award-winning special issue of American Quarterly, “Origins of Biopolitics in the Americas.” Dr. LaFleur is currently at work on a new project, tentatively titled A Queer History of Sexual Violence (under contract with The University of Chicago Press), which examines the role of cultural and legal responses to sexual violence in the development of modern understandings of sexuality. Her works-in-progress discussion will be drawn from this project.
Date:
Location:
The Cornerstone - UKFCU Esports Theater

Trans Feminine Histories, Piece By Piece

Friday, April 8th
 
Dr. Greta LaFLeur, Associate Professor of American Studies, Yale University
 
11 am, Gaines Center for the Humanities, Bingham-Davis House
Work-in-Progress Discussion with Dr. LaFleur: “Trans Feminine Histories, Piece By Piece” 
All are welcome! Download a copy of the essay to be discussed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10-t89dqjpHiyiZxmcsPSoDHdz2Ccpzwn/view?…;
 
2pm, The Cornerstone - UKFCU Esports Theater
Keynote Address: "Sexual Violence and the State: A Racial History of Legal Castration"
 
CO-SPONSORS: English Department, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Early American Literature
 

Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of science, the history of race, the history and historiography of sexuality, and queer & trans studies. Her first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), reveals how eighteenth-century race science contributed to emerging sciences of sex in the colonial Atlantic world. Other publications include Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Cornell UP, 2021) and an award-winning special issue of American Quarterly, “Origins of Biopolitics in the Americas.” Dr. LaFleur is currently at work on a new project, tentatively titled A Queer History of Sexual Violence (under contract with The University of Chicago Press), which examines the role of cultural and legal responses to sexual violence in the development of modern understandings of sexuality. Her works-in-progress discussion will be drawn from this project.

 

Date:
Location:
Gaines Center for the Humanities, Bingham-Davis House

New Study Aims to Improve Access to Care for the Youth LGBTQ+ Community

By Dr. Kelly Hill and Mallory Profeta

LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 16, 2022) — A multidisciplinary team at the University of Kentucky has joined forces to improve medical and mental health services for the LGBTQ+ community.     

“We’ve seen an increase in patients who are transgender or gender nonconforming  admitted to the UK HealthCare inpatient adolescent behavioral health unit,” said UK HealthCare child and adolescent psychiatrist Kelly Hill.

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