Updating Apple Mail Configuration after Office 365 migration
If you had the Apple Mail client configured for Exchange, you will need to remove the Exchange account and add your Office 365 account after the migration is completed.
Ridolfo Wins Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award
by Gail Hairston
Jim Ridolfo of the University of Kentucky and co-editor William Hart-Davidson of Michigan State University (MSU) were recently awarded the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award for their book “Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities.”
Sociology Professor’s High Ranking Article Explores School Dress Codes, Discipline
by Guy Spriggs
For almost 3 years, the Open Syllabus Project (OSP) has collected and analyzed syllabi to shed light on what texts are assigned in college courses. The Project boasts a catalog of 1.1 million syllabi, and its insights were chronicled in a January 2016 feature in the New York Times titled, “What a Million Syllabuses Can Teach Us.”
A&S Alumna Named Finalist for Pulitzer Prize
Relying on her native American roots for her first novel, “Maud’s Line,” University of Kentucky alumna and Lexington businesswoman Margaret Verble has been named a Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
The Pulitzer Committee described “Maud’s Line” as “A novel whose humble prose seems well-suited to the remote American milieu it so engagingly evokes: the Indian allotments of 1920s Oklahoma.”
Organic Chemistry and Student Success with Susan Odom
Listen to Odom’s podcast for more on training students, next-generation battery research, and the connection between chemistry and cooking.
Pink Hair and a Chemistry Career
Four years ago, I was interviewing John Anthony in chemistry about his work on solar cells and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). He mentioned this crazy undergraduate student, who used to work in his lab, who constantly dyed her hair. She made bright orange and fluorescent pink LEDs that matched her “hair color of the week.” The science behind these organic compounds was intriguing, he told me, although he admitted there wasn’t much demand for those shades of LEDs in consumer electronics.
History Major Selected for Fulbright Summer Institute in England
The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that history junior Abigail King, of Lexington, has been selected for a place at a Fulbright Summer Institute to study at England's Durham University in one of the most prestigious and selective summer scholarship programs operating worldwide.
Magic in the Math Department
by Guy Spriggs
In organizing its spring 2016 information meeting for majors, the UK Department of Mathematics solicited faculty to give the closing address. Professor Richard Ehrenborg volunteered, but suggested a less traditional approach.
“I said I wasn’t going to give a talk,” he recalled. “I was going to do a show.”
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First Episode of New Podcast, "Behind the Blue," Focuses on Election-Year Politics
Some stories require a little more — a little more discussion, more context, more depth and breadth.
That’s the idea behind “Behind the Blue” — a new weekly podcast created by UK Public Relations and Marketing. It is designed to explore — through probing, in-depth interviews — the stories that make UK the university for Kentucky and that have impact across the institution, the Commonwealth and, in some cases, the world.