Strong Fall Semester for UK Debate Team
By Jordyn Comitor
The University of Kentucky Debate Team had a strong first semester of their 2016-2017 season, led by the exceptionally strong freshmen team of Dan Bannister and Anthony Trufanov.
Faculty Receive Funding to Develop Responses to Opioid Injection Epidemic
By Jenny Wells
Two faculty members from the University of Kentucky have received three of four funded awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop responses to the opioid injection epidemic that can be implemented by public health systems in rural communities.
Summer Research Grants Offer Rewarding Experiences
One of the benefits of a large research university is the opportunity it provides undergraduates to study a wide variety of disciplines while working with nationally recognized scholars. In order to promote these types of educational experiences for students, the Office of Undergraduate Research offers Research and Creativity Grants during the summer term.
Import Outlook archive into Office365 online archive
In the past, we set up Outlook archives so that email could be stored on the A&S file server and free up the limited space on the Exchange server. This was an imperfect system because the archive file type (.pst) doesn't perform very well on server storage, but if we moved the file to your local desktop's C drive, it might be lost in a hard drive crash or Windows reinstall.
UK Undergraduates Awarded at Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting
By Amanda Fuller
The Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) held its 2016 Annual Meeting Nov. 4‐5, at the University of Louisville. More than 700 scientists and students attended the meeting, and hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students from Kentucky and regional colleges and universities participated in the research competitions.
Winners of the student competitions from the University of Kentucky included:
Groundbreaking African-American Encyclopedia Wins Kentucky History Award
By Mack McCormick and Whitney Hale
Math Professor Receives Grant to Study Algebraic Geometry
By Jenny Wells
David Jensen, an assistant professor of mathematics in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, received funding this fall from the National Science Foundation for his research in algebraic geometry, a central topic in mathematics with applications to many other disciplines.
Math Movie of the Month: The Story of 1
University of Kentucky Math Movie of the Month presents: The Story of 1.
The history of this number presented by Monty Python’s Terry Jones.
“Terry Jones takes a humor filled journey to discover the amazing tale that lies behind the simplest number we have. Using computer graphics, 1 is brought to life for the program, in all its various guises. 1’s story reveals how the most celebrated civilizations in history were achieved, where our modern numbers came from and how the invention of zero changed the world forever and saved us from having to use Roman numerals today.” – 60 min
Friday December 9th, 2016 7:30pm in Classroom Building 118
For more information see: www.math.uky.edu/~movies
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CB 118