Dr Carolyn P Brock will be presenting a seminar entitled "Quasicrystals: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry" for the Physical Chemistry section of CHE776.
Winter break and the holidays are fast approaching. Students – have you made plans for winter intersession yet? If not, A&S is offering classes during the break for those students interested in gaining extra credit hours and speeding up time to graduation. It’s a great time to pick up an extra class in your major or explore a topic you find intriguing. For example, we are offering a new online course for those students interested in an overview of technologies we use every day. The class, A&S 100 – 230: IT IQ will allow you to sharpen your IT IQ and learn about video conferencing, software installation, internet research tools, and Blackboard basics – just to name a few – and earn extra credit hours in the process. This class will familiarize you with technologies, research tools, and search engines that are important to your success at UK and beyond. Become a better digital citizen and learn about social networking and e-etiquette as you communicate through Facebook, Twitter, email, and blogs. To learn more about the class, click here.
The 26 A&S Wired students registered for Mike Cavagnero's eight-week class: "The Science of Measurement" tackle projects from around campus and complete the endeavors using iPad measuring tools.
The iPad can serve as a compass to measure magnetic fields, has a built-in camera, so it can serve as a spectrometer to measure light sources and an accelerometer, which can measure how fast it is moving.
Watch Mike Cavagnero show off a couple of the capabilities of the iPad.
This is part of the Linguistics program speaker series. Dr. Hazen is lecturing to a class about Appalachian dialect features.
Linguistics Program Faculty Speaker Series
Featuring
Haralambos Symeonidis
Department of Hispanic Studies, Linguistics Program
“Atlas Lingüístico Guaraní-Románico”
Wednesday, December 7
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
1pm
Hosted by the Linguistics Program; contact andrew.hippisley@uky.edu
The Latin American Studies Program and the International Studies Program Present
JOHN ANTÓN SÁNCHEZ
"Estado Plurinacional Derechos Afrodescendientes y Desigualdad Racial en Ecuador"
Friday, December 2, 2011
3 pm
Student Center, Room 111
(Please note this lecture will be conducted in Spanish)
John Antón Sánchez is a Professor at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales del Ecuador. He teaches courses on African Diaspora in the Americas and Citizenship and Racism. Currently, he has research projects on Social Conditions and Politics of the Afro-Ecuadorians and on Afro-Ecuadorian Religious Festivals in Esmeraldas and Valley of the Chota.
In the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the High Energy Theory Group is a collection of faculty, students, and post-doctoral researchers, investigating the origin and nature of matter and forces. The six faculty members of the group are Sumit Das, Terrence Draper, Michael Eides, Bing-An Li, Keh-Fei Liu, and Alfred Shapere. In this interview, Sumit Das describes the diverse research goals of the group, talks about applying string theory to the origins of the universe, and tells young physicists to follow their hearts.
Huajing Maske, director of The Confucius Institute, reflects on its first year at UK.
UK celebrates International Education Week Nov. 12-18.
What is Ann Morris' secret weapon in studying the genetic disorders that disrupt the human eye? A small, freshwater vertebrate called the zebrafish. Its innate ability to regenerate tissues within its retina following injury makes it a valuable tool for understanding the ocular disease that compromise the vision of thousands of people each year.
