Psychologist, Lynda Brown Wright, discusses the mental health consequences of racial oppression and its impact on ideas of black masculinity and manhood.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
MLK Cultural Center scholar-in-residence, professor Arnold Farr and co-host professor Vershawn Young, African American Studies and English, will discuss the promise of black manhood in America by examining MLK's actions, philosophies, and speeches.
Ben Braun is an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department. In the summer of 2011, he led a research program for undergraduate mathematics students.
In this podcast, Ben talks about his own research interests, discusses what the program was like for students, answers the two questions every mathematician gets asked and says that math is a liberal art.
Produced by: Stephen Gordinier
Young people from the Appalachian Media Institute (AMI) will be showcasing three films on campus this week that give a realistic look at Appalachia.
Mike Cavagnero's experimental A&S Wired research course on the science of measurement takes undergraduate physics to a whole new level.
UK’s African American & Africana Studies Program in a partnership with the Lyric Theater & Cultural Arts Center, will kick-off Rebuilding the Block, the 2011-2012 S.T. Roach Community Conversations, on Saturday, December 10th with a Celebration of Black Men at 11 am. As the kick-off to the Community Conversation series, poet, professor and community activist Frank X Walker leads a salute to adult Men Making a Difference, young Men of Excellence & Promise.
UK Linguistics Club meeting will take place Thursday December 1st at 5pm in Student Center room 205. As with the last one, faculty will be talking about their research. Guest speakers will be Greg Stump, Jennifer Cramer and Mark Lauersdorf.
This showcase will feature three films produced by AMI students that cover a wide range of content. The films are "Searching for an Appalachian Accent" 15 mins- which explores the stigma attached to regional dialects, "A Little Piece of Me" 10 mins- which focuses on three stories about growing up gay in the mountains and "True Cost of Coal" 13 mins - which through personal stories explores the mark the coal industry has left on Eastern Kentucky communities.
Appalachian Media Institute strives to:
Build the confidence levels and creative capacity of central Appalachian youth
Position youth from central Appalachia as initiators of dialogue and social action around crucial community issues
Highlight rural voices and to inform national audiences and diverse communities of the unique challenges that face rural Appalachian communities
Enable our participants to become informed, tolerant, and engaged citizens and to recognize the interconnections between central Appalachia and the rest of the world"
As part of his "GEO 164 iWorlds" class this past semester, geography professor Matthew Zook assigned students the task of geocoding photographs of streetscapes of Lexington from the first half of the 20th century.
Mohammed Saeed, a Fulbright Scholar in UK's Department of Statistics pursuing a master's in public health in UK's College of Public Health will give an insider's perspective on the past, present and future of Iraq at UK next week.
