Celebrity Mapping Project with Matt Wilson

Students in Matt Wilson's class get to hang out with celebrities like Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling and even the Turtle-Man. The 'Celebrity Mapping Project' required them to photograph a cut-out of any celebrity, develop a creative caption explaining why that celebrity would be on campus, upload their photographs into a collaborative photo-sharing site, and, finally, place their photographs directly into the appropriate sites on a collaborative map. Learn more about the project!

Another Bric in the Wall?: South Africa's Developmental Impact on Sub-Sarahan Africa

Padraig Carmody Trinity College, Dublin presents "Another Bric in the Wall?: South Africa's Developmental Impact on Sub-Saharan Africa". The event is sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Geography. The event is scheduled for Friday March 2nd at 4:00p.m. in Whitehall Classroom Building Room 114.

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CB 114

Physics Colloquium: Alexandra Gade

Nuclear spectroscopy with fast exotic beams

Dr. Alexandra Gade

Department of Physics

Michigan State University

 

The often surprising properties of neutron-rich nuclei have prompted extensive experimental and theoretical studies aimed at identifying the driving forces behind the dramatic changes encountered in the exotic regime. In-beam nuclear spectroscopy with fast beams and thick reaction targets – where gamma-ray spectroscopy is used to tag the final state – provides information on the single-particle structure as well as on collective degrees of freedom in nuclei that are available for experiments at beam rates of only a few ions/s. Recent results from nuclear spectroscopy experiments that utilize the interplay of nuclear-structure effects and nuclear reactions will be presented.



 

Refreshments will be served in CP 179 at 3:15 PM  

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155 Chem-Phys Bldg

Guess What? GIS is a Beneficial Tool for All

 

GIS (Geographic Information Services) is empowering new ways faculty can teach in their classrooms and the way students interact and learn. Nowhere is that more evident than in the Department of Geography. Jeremy Crampton and his class surveyed part of UK’s campus with a camera, 2-liter soda bottle, a balloon, rubber bands and string. Find out more about how a do-it-yourself project like this makes it easy to be an active participant in data collection.



Matt Wilson’s students are also putting GIS to use by working with community members and organizations. Ranging from health and cultural advocacy, food systems, open data, environmental issues, historical preservation – the students collaborate with people and places in the community to provide a needs assessment that GIS technologies can offer, whether it is web-based mapping tools, information that can help with grants, or just general GIS analysis. Listen to this podcast to find out more.



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UK's Outstanding Advisors Honored at Award Luncheon

 

By Keith Hautala

Award WinnersThe University of Kentucky's Jamie Wheeler and Sebastian Bryson were honored as the recipients of the 18th Ken Freedman Outstanding Advisor Awards at a luncheon held on Friday, Feb. 24.

The award recognizes outstanding service in the field of academic advising. Two awards are presented each year, one to a full-time professional advisor and another to a faculty advisor.

Second Annual Research Conference on Children at Risk

On March 26, the Second Annual Research Conference on Children at Risk will be held in the Alumni Hall Ballroom.  From 10:00A.M.-12:00P.M., we are having graduate student poster presentations. From 12:30-2, Mr. Bill Farmer, President of United Way of the Bluegrass, will speak. At 3:30-5, Dr. Jaana Juvonen, expert on bullying from UCLA, will give the keynote address in Kastle Hall 213. The interdisciplinary conference is open to everyone and is free of charge.

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Alumni Hall Ballroom
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