Harvard Physicist to Present Van Winter Lecture in A&S
By A Fish
LEXINGTON; Ky. — Moiré electronics are hot topics for theoretical physics. Ganpathy Murthy, professor of physics and astronomy in the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts & Sciences, spoke about the upcoming van Winter Lecture and about guest lecturer Ashvin Vishwanath, a theoretical physicist specializing in the study of condensed matter at Harvard University.
Claire Dzan: First generation UK grad commits to helping and growing her community
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Claire Dzan took full advantage of her stint at the University of Kentucky: She double-majored in neuroscience and Spanish; she was elected homecoming queen and sorority president; and she revitalized a key source for students who need clothing for job interviews.
Catholic Space, Catholic Time, and the Performative Power of the Word
An Inaugural Lecture for the Cottrill-Rolfes Chair in Catholic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences. Reception to follow.

UK Substance Use Research Event to highlight cannabis research
By Elizabeth Chapin
The University of Kentucky is hosting its fifth annual Substance Use Research Event (SURE) April 24 in the UK Gatton Student Center. This free event showcases translational research conducted at UK focusing on substance use and substance use disorder.
Cannabis research is a focus of this year’s event, which will include an update on the new UK Cannabis Center, a breakout session on emerging cannabis research, and a keynote from a national cannabis expert.
Research Funding Opportunities
Research Funding Opportunities for Faculty
Research Support Provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research
Among the support programs offered by the Vice President for Research are the following:
Students of Color in Mathematics and Science (SCiMS) March Meet-Up
All A&S undergraduate and graduate Students of Color in Mathematics and Science (SCiMS) are invited for an evening of fellowship, food, and fun!
Questions? Please contact Billie Haley.

The World Making and World Breaking Capacities of Religion in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Prof. Catherine Wanner (Penn State University) has conducted 30 years of ethnographic research in Ukraine. She is the author or editor of seven books, including her most recent monograph, Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine (Cornell University Press, 2022), and the forthcoming edited volume, Dispossession: Imperial Legacies and the Russo-Ukrainian War (Routledge, 2023). Her research has focused primarily on the politics of religion in Ukraine and increasingly on human rights and conflict mediation within the context of war. She is the convenor of the Working Group on Lived Religion in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In 2020 she was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Prize from the Association for the Study of Eastern Christianity.
Sponsored by World Religions, History, Anthropology, Sociology, MCL, and the Lewis Honors College, and with special thanks for the support of the Gaines Center for the Humanities.

