Two recent University of Kentucky graduates, Michael Delfino and Samantha Dougherty, are among only 34 high school mathematics and science teachers in the U.S. named to the 2015 cohort of Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSF) teaching fellows.
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Lisa Blackadar
Director of Annual Giving & Alumni Engagement
Development Office
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This summer marks my 28th year in Lexington and I’m proud to call it home. I grew up on the east coast and spent most of my childhood on Long Island and then in New Jersey. It’s fun to get people to identify my accent. I’m proud of the fact that I naturally substitute “you all” for “you guys,” now!
I am an art historian by training and have worked in art museums for most of my professional life. I graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio and then got my graduate degree in art history from UK. After six years with the UK Art Museum, I am very pleased to be a part of the College of Arts & Sciences. The transition across campus from Singletary Center to POT has been easy due in large part to the warm welcome I’ve received from everyone. I really enjoy meeting new people.
The University of Kentucky Confucius Institute and UK Education Abroad recently collaborated to offer a programming site visit to China.
In support of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Passport to the World Initiative and the 2015 Year of the Middle East campaign, University of Kentucky Education Abroad partnered with the college
Since 1996, Dr. Hutson has been doing archaeology in the Maya area, working briefly in Belize and Guatemala before settling down in Yucatan, Mexico, in 1998. Dr. Hutson will speak about his current research.
Mexican social scientist, Josefina Aranda Beauzry (from ISS-UABJO), will teach a one credit course on gender, development, and food in Latin America at UK in F15. She joins us from Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas-Universidad Autonoma "Benito Juarez" de Oaxaca, Mexico, and will give a public lecture in conjunction with her visit.
Women farmers are less likely to own land and have limited access to credit, extension services, producer organizations and market information. In this talk, Sarah Lyon explores current innovations in the speciality, high-quality, coffee market aimed at supporting women farmers, including new financial products and training programs, micro-batching of women's coffee, identifying and supporting "hidden influences" and developing gender "scorecards." She will discuss the impact of some of these innovations in Oaxaca, Mexico, where 42 % of registered organic coffee farmers are now women.
This tutorial will guide you through creating a photo gallery for your department.
Student-athletes from all eight of Kentucky's spring sports teams combined to earn a total of 84 spots on the Southeastern Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll, Commissioner Greg Sankey announced on Tuesday.
