UK Constitution Day 2015: 'Learning, Leadership, and Civic Engagement'
Constitution Day, also known as Citizenship Day, commemorates the ratification of the United States Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787.
Language Talk - Episode 6
Our sixth Language Talk: KWLA podcast, Student Growth Goal Rubric, features host Laura Roché Youngworth discussing with Jillian Lykens, Ben McMaine, and Alicia Vinson the structure and application of the Fayette County World Language Student Growth Goal Rubrics.
Symposium: “The Intersections of Violence in Latin America”
We will begin at 9:30 am with a presentation by multimedia artist Diana Kahlo,Las Desaparecidas de Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (The Missing Women of Juarez) followed by Francisco Goldman's lecture Ayotzinapa: Mexico Hits Bottom at 11:00 am and we will end with a panel on the Intersections of Violence and Human Rights across Time and Space from 2:00 to 4:30 pm with the participation of Rosa Linda Fregoso, Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, Cecilia Menjivar, Foundation Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas and Tiffiny Tung, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
UK's Butterfield Receives NIH Grant to Study Parkinson's Disease
D. Allan Butterfield, professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA), has been awarded a $413,000, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a new model of Parkinson's disease (PD).
Education Abroad Fall Fair
If Education Abroad seems overwhelming or confusing, then the fair is the place for you. The event will feature representatives from various colleges highlighting the programs tailored to their students, as well as partner providers that offer even more abroad opportunities.
So stop by, eat some snacks, grab some giveaways and you'll be one step closer to Seeing Blue Abroad!
UK Students Among First Recipients of SEC Dr. Pepper Education Abroad Awards
Twenty-eight students representing each Southeastern Conference university will study abroad during the 2015-16 academic year, the result of a contribution to the league by Dr Pepper.
UK Historians Publish Five Books in One Month
The University of Kentucky Department of History needs to build an extra book shelf.