A&S Wired Residential College is pleased to welcome former Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry to Keeneland Hall. Find out what drew him to public service and his approach to local government. Chat with him about his time at UK as an undergrad and law student, too! Snacks and coffee provided.
Abigail Keam, A&S alumna and award-winning author will be part of other authors and beekeeping experts giving short presentation. She will be giving a talk on what beekeeping means to her and also her award winning mystery series. Free and open to the public.
Location:
Mary Wood Memorial Library
1530 S Green St
Glasgow, KY 42141
(270) 651 2924
9:0a.m. - 2:00p.m.
Friday, January 27th, 2012
More about Abigail Keam:
Born and bred in Kentucky, Abigail graduated with Distinction from the University of Kentucky with a degree in Middle Eastern Civilization. She then went into private business and kept bees as a hobby.
Retiring in 1999 after a life-threatening asthma attack, Abigail became a full-time beekeeper, launching Abigail's, making honey/beeswax-based natural products. She sells at the Lexington Farmers' Market, which was voted 15th in the nation.
Ms. Keam has won sixteen honey awards at the Kentucky State Fair and was the first recipient of the Barbara Horn Award, given to those scoring a perfect 100 for a beekeeping-related entry at the Kentucky State Fair. In 2004, Ms. Keam traveled to South Africa to study beekeeping in Africa.
Miss Abigail is a member of the Bluegrass Beekeepers Association, the Kentucky State Beekeepers Association, the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, and the National Society of Arts and Letters. She is a past board member of the Lexington Farmers' Market and Women in Agriculture boards. Also past president of the Friends of the Lexington Farmers' Market, Lexington Rape Crisis Center, and the Lexington Art League.
WORKSHOP ON CONNECTING CLASSES INTERNATIONALLY:
Tuesday January 24, 3:30-5:00 pm, 245 POT
The College of Arts & Sciences, Center for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching, and Office of International Affairs announce a workshop on—and call for proposals for—curricular links between A&S classes and classes in other countries. Technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and Google Docs support many possibilities.
The Workshop will explore examples of such links and detail the technical and course design assistance available at UK to create them. The Workshop will also discuss financial support, for example, for travel that brings UK faculty together with faculty in other countries to plan such links.
All A&S faculty are invited to attend this Workshop. Download the flyer.
Proposals for International Course links requiring financial support will be due to Debbie Burton (at Debbie.Burton@uky.edu) on April 1, 2012.
For more information, contact Ted Schatzki at schatzki@uky.edu.
I was looking through some Wired Campus articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education, and I found this one about some resources where you can learn computer programming. I have always wanted to learn more about computers, programming, web design, etc. Last Christmas break I learned HTML and CSS, so this year I think I'm going to delve into Python. I just signed up for the free Stanford University online course on Computer Science, and also the one for Cryptography. I'm pretty excited to start learning about these topics. Anyone wanna join me?
Great teachers makes a great college, as well. Three of the honored professors are A&S faculty: Arne Bathke, Eric Christianson, and Ana Rueda.
WHO: Mary Gray http://www.indiana.edu/~cmcl/faculty/gray.shtml.
WHAT: Appalachian Speaker Series - "Place Matters"
WHERE: Student Center Theater
WHEN: Friday, January 27, 2:30p.m. - 5:30p.m.
Mike Cavagnero, the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was one of the initial faculty members to teach a class in A&S Wired in Fall of 2011 titled Measuring Science. He talks about the course and the power of using the iPad in the classroom. You can also view a video on the final projects the class did: vimeo.com/35279096 This is part one of a two-part Dean's Channel interview with Mike Cavagnero. Part two is here - vimeo.com/35011430
Salut tout le monde! My ever-exciting blog continues with one of my favorite aspects of travelling to and visiting a big city: street performances! In places like London and Paris (and even places like New York and Chicago!,) street performances can be quite excellent. I say, if you enjoy the show, don't hesitate to donate a little and help the musicians along. I'd like to add that, what I find really cool about a lot of street performances that I've seen in Paris, many of them aren't even bothered by the police. Or, sometimes when they are drawing particularly large crowds as some dancers often do, the police will watch with crowd, allowing the performers to finish before they break the crowd up and shoo the performers away. So go! Enjoy the talents that people are sharing with the world!
Salut tout le monde! Today we will look at street performances in big cities! I love them. If you happen across one, take a second to listen and don't hesitate to donate some loose coinage!
A museum I visited in London called the Tate Modern had a series of portraits in the “States of Flux” exhibit, created by Cindy Sherman. This series stood out to me among the other pieces of art, and I thought I’d share it with all of you. This work of art is a series of portrait, black and white photographs, in which Cindy Sherman is the subject in each image. However, it seems like the subject of each image are different people. Sherman changes her makeup and facial expression in each portrait so much that each portrait looks like people of different ages and gender.
According to the “cindysherman” website, her biography says, that or a work of art to be considered a portrait, the artist must have intent to portray a specific, actual person. This can be communicated through such techniques as naming a specific person in the title of the work or creating an image in which the physical likeness leads to an emotional individuality unique to a specific person. While these criteria are not the only ways of connoting a portrait, they are just two examples of how Sherman carefully communicates to the viewer that these works are not meant to depict Cindy Sherman the person. By titling each of the photographs "Untitled", as well as numbering them, Sherman depersonalizes the images.
