WUKY's 'UK Perspectives' Gets Down to Earth With UK Sustainability Coordinator
WUKY's "UK Perspectives" focuses on the people and programs of the University of Kentucky and is hosted by WUKY General Manager Tom Godell.
Students, Faculty, Professionals Receive Writing Awards
University colleges typically only celebrate the writing of their students.
Ambassador Speaks at A&S Alumni Speaker Series
The University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences hosts its annual Alumni Speaker Series to coincide with one of the speaker’s induction into the UK Alumni Association’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni, April 17.
Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy and Indigenous Rights in Chile
In this talk, Dr. Richards will examine the conflicts as well as the multicultural policies that have developed in response to indigenous claims in Chile. She will argue that racism is paradoxically reinscribed by policies that on their face seem to be about diversity and acceptance of difference. Richards will bring attention to how the process of generating consent for the state’s construction of indigenous subjects in the context of neoliberalism is not only imposed from above, but also informed by competing worldviews at the local level.
Sponsored by: Sociology Department and co-sponsored by the International Studies and Latin American Studies Programs.
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1545 Patterson Office Tower
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Bardo Receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award
Each award winner will become his or her university’s nominee for the 2015 SEC Professor of the Year Award and will receive a $5,000 honorarium from the SEC. The SEC Professor of the Year, to be named later this month, receives an additional $15,000 honorarium and will be recognized at the SEC Awards Dinner in May and the SEC Symposium in September.
Tribute to Jan Oaks and GWS end of year celebration
Dear GWS students, faculty, and friends,
On Monday May 4, 2015, from 3:00-4:30, GWS will host a tribute to Dr. Jan Oaks, followed by a reception from 4:30-5:00 at the Commonwealth House (part of the Gaines Center) at 226 East Maxwell Street. We are hoping that you will join us for this celebration and acknowledgement of Jan’s life and her generous contributions to students, colleagues, and the university. We would also like to invite you to participate in this tribute by sharing your memories, stories, or thoughts about Jan. We would like to post them, with your permission, on our GWS website. We plan to finalize our program for the tribute byThursday, April 30, so please send us your remembrances to Michelle Del Toro at michelle.deltoro@uky.edu by then, and let us know if you would like to read them at the tribute or have someone read them for you. Your participation would be greatly appreciated. We will also announce the details about donating to the GWS Jan Oaks Award Fund for undergraduates that we are establishing.
Following the reception, we will hold our annual end-of- the- year awards ceremony from 5:00-6:30 and we hope you will join us for that event as well.
Please feel free to circulate this invitation widely. We hope to see you on May 4th.
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Commonwealth House
Secor Named First Sheikh Islamic Studies Professor
Anna Secor, professor of geography, social theory, and gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the university’s first Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Islamic Studies Professor.
Imagine If We Sat at a Global Dinner Table
Claudia Roden is said to have revolutionized Western attitudes about Middle Eastern and North African cuisines with "A Book of Middle Eastern Food," published in 1968.
College of Arts and Sciences Faculty and Teaching Awards
The College of Arts and Sciences will present the faculty and teaching awards for the past year on April 22 from 4:00-5:30 in the WT Young Library Auditorium. A reception will follow.
The recipients of this year's College faculty awards are:
- Beth Guiton, chemisty - Undergraduate Mentoring
- Shaunna Scott, sociology - Distinguished Service or Engagement
- Joseph Straley, physics & astronomy - Distinguished Service or Engagement
- Christia Brown, psychology - Diversity and Inclusion
- Joseph Brill, physics & astronomy - Graduate Mentoring
- Thomas Janoski, sociology - Graduate Mentoring
- Linda Worley, modern & classical languages, literatures & cultures - Graduate Mentoring
The recipeints of this year's College teaching awards are:
- Renee Fatemi, physics & sstronomy - Outstanding Teaching Award
- Moisés Castillo, hispanic studies - Outstanding Teaching Award
- Charley Carlson, psychology - Outstanding Teaching Award
- Anna Voskresensky, modern & classical languages, literatures & cultures - Outstanding Teaching Award
- Michelle Sizemore, English - Teaching in Large Classes
- Ruth Brown, hispanic studies - Innovative Teaching
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Auditorium of WT Young Library