Holler Back! Season 4 Episode 4: The Mountain Fiesta Cumberland Gap, TN
The HollerBack Podcast is back from the grave. this time with new hosts, new topics, and lots of laughs. In this episode, hosts Trinity Adams and Alan Luc introduce Zachary Greene to discuss a student led cultural project called the Mountain Fiesta celebrating cultural bridges of Appalachian and LatinX traditions, music, and food. Listen to the ground work and inspiration that led to this annual festival in Cumberland Gap, TN that welcomes community members to engage in an exciting way celebrating each other.
Holler Back! Season 4 Episode 3: Appalachian Studies Association and APP 399
The HollerBack Podcast is back from the grave. this time with new hosts, new topics, and lots of laughs. In this episode, hosts Trinity Adams and Alan Luc introduce Jacob Johnson and Kopana Terry to talk about personal experiences and presentations during the Appalachian Studies Association in Athens, Ohio at the Ohio University. We share thoughts and experience being students of APP399 taught by the director of Appalachian Studies Dr. Kathryn Engle.
Incubator Reading Series
Incubator Reading Series
Enjoy an evening of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from UK writers.
Featuring:
Kate Arden
Savannah Bowen
Jazmin Witherspoon
Faculty Guest Reader:
Hannah Pittard
Open mic for undergraduate students beforehand. Come early to sign up!
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Cat's Den, Gatton Student Center
Festival del Espacio 2023
The Arts & Sciences' Department of Physics and Astronomy invites local Hispanic and Latinx elementary school students from Cardinal Valley, Liberty and Maxwell elementary schools, to come explore outer space and learn about the amazing work that astronomers do! The celebration will include a fun-filled evening featuring activities, crafts, awesome speakers, and a chance to gaze into the beautiful night sky through our state-of-the-art space telescope housed inside UK's MacAdam Observatory. And to top it off, there will be free tacos, snacks and drinks!
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Jacob's Science Building
The Organic Chemistry Fab Lab
Check out some of the exciting organic electronics fabrication research that chemistry professor Kenneth Graham is conducting with A&S students in the Fab Lab! Using our state-of-the-art research facilities housed within Jacobs Science Building, professor Graham and his students incorporate principles of Chemistry and Physics to create relevant, real-world electronic devices.
Appalachian Center honors 11 students with research awards
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 12, 2023) — The University of Kentucky Appalachian Center is honoring 11 students with its annual research awards.
Eight graduate students received the James S. Brown Graduate Student Award for Research on Appalachia, and one graduate student and two undergraduate students received the center's Eller and Billings Student Research Award.
The Provost’s 2023 Outstanding Teaching Awards: Katie Kohls
By Meg Mills
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 11, 2023) — Katie Kohls, a graduate instructor in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, is one of 10 winners to receive the University of Kentucky’s 2022-23 Outstanding Teaching Award.