Chellgren Center Names Three New Endowed A&S Professors
Janet Eldred, Michael Kovash, and Carl Lee are the three newest endowed professors at the Chellgren Center
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Retired UK Professor Wins Outstanding Contribution to the Profession Award for 2011
Professor Gerald Janecek continues to achieve excellence beyond A&S
Faculty Spotlight: Sculpting Student Ideas, Skills and Style with Garry Bibbs
Garry Bibbs is an associate professor in the College of Fine Arts at UK. In this video he explains the different classes he teaches and how he helps students build portfolios that will be applicable to the art world as well as other avenues.
A&S Wired: Measuring Science with an iPad
Mike Cavagnero, the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was one of the initial faculty members to teach a class in A&S Wired in Fall of 2011. His class was titled Measuring Science. This video showcases the students' final projects, in which they used their iPads as a tool to help in their research, data and analysis.
Great Teachers Make a Great University
Great teachers makes a great college, as well. Three of the honored professors are A&S faculty: Arne Bathke, Eric Christianson, and Ana Rueda.
Teaching Caribbean Cultures: Approaching Francophone and Caribbean Cultures with Jacqueline Couti
Jacqueline Couti is a professor in the Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department. Professor Couti specializes in Francophone Caribbean, African, and New World literatures and cultures with an emphasis on how ethnic and cultural identity have been formed. In this podcast, Professor Couti explains what her typical class is like, what kind of students populate them, and what kind of reactions she receives from her students.
This podcast was produced by Sam Burchett.
Sniffing Out A Theory of Mind: Clare Batty and the Philosophy of Sensory Perception
Clare Batty is a professor in the Department of Philosophy. Professor Batty's research focuses on olfactory perception, an area under the broader category of the philosophy of mind. In this podcast, Professor Batty explains her research and why philosophy is an important discipline.
This podcast was produced by Sam Burchett.
Allan Butterfield Ph.D Talks Patents, Department of Chemistry
What's cookin' in the Chemistry Department? UK Chemistry Professor Allan Butterfield speaks about the various patents that chemistry research at UK has developed. Butterfield's research deals with the detection of Alzheimer's syndrome in chemical brain functions.
Applied Statistics Lab Will Foster Collaborative Research, Provide Statistical Support
I’d like to point your attention to the newest installment of the Dean’s Channel where I spoke with statistics professors Arne Bathke and Arny Stromberg. In 2011, UK opened its first Applied Statistics Lab (ASL), with the help of the Office of the Vice President for Research, several UK college deans, and infrastructure grants such as the university's recent Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), UK statisticians in the College of Arts & Sciences' Department of Statistics, and the College of Public Health's Department of Biostatistics.
The main objectives of this venture are to provide improved statistical services to groups preparing grant proposals, direct faculty involvement from the Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics for study design and data analysis throughout UK, foster collaborative research between scholars who develop quantitative methodology and those who use such methodology in their work, and to become a resource which may be referenced in institutional support for larger grants, in addition to direct statistical support typically included in such grants.
Pear-Shaped Nuclei, Particle Accelerators, and Zebras: Steven Yates
Steven Yates is an Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor who works in the departments of both Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy.
In this interview, Yates discusses his recent collaboration with the iThemba Laboratory, a nuclear particle accelerator facility in Cape Town, South Africa.