Naff Symposium 2017
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Guiton and Odom Selected as Scialog Fellow by Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement
By Jenny Wells
Beth Guiton, professor of chemistry, and Susan Odom, assistant professor of chemistry, in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, have been selected as Scialog Fellows by the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement.
Civic Life Panel Series Continues: Science Speaks
By Gail Hairston
The last event of the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences’ Civil Life Panel Series’ spring season is slated noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, with two follow-up panel discussions later the same day. The topic is “Science Speaks.”
Eugene and Guzman reveal how sunlight can spark chemical reactions in clouds, fog, and mist
Atmospheric aerosols such as smoke, fog, and mist are made of fine solid or liquid particles suspended in air. In the lower atmosphere aerosols play a major role in controlling air quality, as well as in scattering and absorbing sunlight. This interaction of aerosols with light varies widely and depends on their complex chemical composition that rapidly changes under the governing highly reactive conditions found in the atmosphere. Importantly, the mysterious formation of carbon-containing atmospheric particles has intrigued atmospheric scientists during the last decade.
Blasing Awarded NEH Summer Stipend
By Gail Hairston
Molly T. Blasing, assistant professor of Russian studies in the University of Kentucky Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, has been awarded a 2017 NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Stipend, one of only two conferred this year in Kentucky.
A&S Geophysicist Helps Develop High-Res Map of Earth's Magnetic Field
By Jenny Wells
Lithospheric magnetic field. Video courtesy of European Space Agency (ESA)
A University of Kentucky geophysicist is helping an international team of scientists reveal dramatic new information about the Earth’s magnetic field.
Women Shall Lead Them: Islamic Reform 21st Century
This lecture, delivered by one of the most Internationally recognized Islamic Feminists in the past few decades, will trace the Muslim Women's Movement from an inside personal-spiritual course to its global conditions and challenges and on towards a new paradigm changing the future. Muslim women are creating more viable, necessary and creative reforms than any other sector of Islamic post-modernism. The path has been rough, the challenges have been deep and yet, the rewards are unprecedented.
This lecture will cover the rise of Islamic feminism and its direct relationship with both secular Muslim feminism and Political Islam. It will feature analysis and experiences spanning 4 decades of scholarship and activism in more than 60 countries. Islamic feminism is born out of this time and travel but it is still growing and its impact will continue the course towards an inevitable future of equality and justice for all.
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WT Young Auditorium
UK, Women Writers Conference Celebrate Debut Novel by Up-and-Coming Kentucky Author
By Whitney Hale and Gail Hairston
Watch as contestants at the Brooklyn Book Festival try to figure out what "The Animators," by UK alumna Kayla Rae Whitaker, is all about based only on its cover.
Byrd Named Teacher of Year in Southern Region
By Gail Hairston
The Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) recently named Brenna Reinhart Byrd Teacher of the Year. Byrd is a University of Kentucky assistant professor of German studies. As the southern regional representative chosen by SCOLT, she will compete for Teacher of the Year at the national level at the annual conference of the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages.