Dr K Ping Lu of Harvard Medical School will be presenting a seminar entitled, "Pin1-Catalyzed Conformational Regulation in Aging, Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease."
For more information about Dr. Lu and his research, click here.
Facutly Host: Dr. Butterfield
Mark Kornbluh continues his Dean's Channel series with a conversation with Department of Geography professor Rich Schein, who is teaching a new course this semester - Community 101. A class that will connect students to Lexington history, culture, modern issues - and most importantly, why all of that should matter to them.
Dr Nadine Kabengi of UK Plant & Soil Sciences will be presenting a seminar entitled, "What One Can Do With Flow Adsorption Calorimetry: Applications To The Study of Surficial Processes."
For more information about Dr. Kabengi, click here.
Faculty Host: Dr. Atwood.
Lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Jacqueline Couti, an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kentucky, will discuss how the development of "doudou," a Creole term in the French Caribbean, was adopted by 19th century European scholars to rewrite national identity in the then French colony of Martinique. Martinique is now a department, which is an administrative district of France.
At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Jill Rappoport is an assistant professor in English, specializing in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, gift theory in literature and economics, and gender and sexuality.
This podcast was produced by Cheyenne Hohman.
For the 75th anniversary of the death of the famous Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca, the UK School of Music and the Department of Hispanic Studies have organized a tribute concert. The concert, led by members of the Kentucky Guitar Orchestra, features UK Professors Dieter Hennings and Noemi Lugo, and is scheduled to begin on Friday September 30, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Download the poster.
At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Janet Stamatel is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and specializes in criminology and political sociology. In particular, she is interested in the reasons why countries have different levels of crime and where the U.S. falls along the spectrum in relation to other countries in the world. Her current research project looks at crime in Eastern European countries and at how major social changes, such as the fall of Communism, affect crime rates.
At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Catherine Linnen is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology and researches how biodiversity arises. She is particularly interested in how organisms adapt to changing conditions and how that adaptation can lead to the formation of entirely new species. Currently she is working on two projects addressing this interest: one looking at changes in coat color among deer mice in Nebraska and the other looking at the relationship of host shifts to the formation of new species among pestilent insects to various pine tree species.
At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Carmen Moreno-Nuño is an associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies and looks at the cultural representation of historical memory. In particular, she focuses on how the Spanish Civil War is portrayed and discussed in literature and cinema. Currently, she is collaborating with other researchers on an edited volume regarding the representation of the guerilla during Spain's period of dictatorship under Fransisco Franco.
At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Ann Kingsolver is the director of the Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program at UK and is also a professor in the Department of Anthropology. Kingsolver does comparative research in the U.S, Mexico, and Sri Lanka that addresses the effects of globalization and transnational policy on people's livelihoods and identities and how people make sense of these changes.
