Frank X Walker Contributes New Award to Poetry Slam
Award honors Walker's mother; event is free & open to public.
A&S students lead the list of Chellgren Fellows
Program made possible by collaboration of prestigious undergraduate programs, A&S students shine.
University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences, Department of English, Frank X Walker, Oxford American,
Associate Professor of Creative Writing featured in fall issue of the Oxford American.
A&S Media Highlight Video
The University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences utilizes a multitude of digital media applications to help tell the stories of the College. Here is a brief selection of some of our brightest student workers' specialities.
The Hive, A&S's newly formed creative and technical services team specializes in audio podcasts, video productions, photography, postproduction special effects, 3D graphics & animations and much, much more!
Back to the Future: Going to Shanghai with Hallie Decker
Hallie Decker, a junior majoring in Chinese and International Studies, will be studying for a year at Shanghai University from August 2011-August 2012. During her year there, she'll be blogging about her adventures.
A&S hosts Bobbie Ann Mason Reading
New novel "The Girl in the Blue Beret," is based on the World War II experience of Mason's father-in-law.
Mix n Mash
My two current internet obsessions are Mashable and Turntable.
According to their website, "Mashable is the largest independent news source dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Mashable reports on the importance of digital innovation and how it empowers and inspires people around the world." Besides the insanely cool and relevant articles, I really like their use of "infographics." Instead of traditional black text on white background articles, These infographics sort of take graphs and charts and mash them up with traditional articles. I think it's a great way to get your information across in a simple and quick manner. These days, no one spends more than a few seconds on a webpage, so getting their attention is paramount.
Here are some of my favorites: How are people using Twitter?; The Rise of the Mobile Workforce; Social Network Wars.
UK Gets to the Core of General Education
Changes have been made in the general education curriculum so that students acquire the critical thinking skills needed to succeed in a competitive global economy.
Yuguo Chen (from U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Sampling for Conditional Inference on Network Data
Random graphs with given vertex degrees have been widely used as a model for many real-world complex networks. We describe a sequential sampling method for sampling networks with a given degree sequence. These samples can be used to approximate closely the null distributions of a number of test statistics involved in such networks, and provide an accurate estimate of the total number of networks with given vertex degrees. We apply our method to a range of examples to demonstrate its efficiency in real problems.
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