Our summer commissioning ceremony took place in the Recital Hall of the Singletary Arts Center on Friday, August 12, 2011. We commissioned five Cadets and had a reception immediately following the ceremony.

Spring 2013 semester saw the largest amount of outside awards presented to our Cadets with many guest presenters. We honored Cadets for their achievements in academics and ROTC during the previous semester. During the awards ceremony the Battalion bade farewell to LTC Cummins and MSG Skinner.…

AMS 250/AMS 350 - Basic course cadets gain hands on experience with the skills and procedures they have learned in class. The MS3 and MS4 classes prepare and execute the weekly leadership labs for basic course.

April 21, 2012 the Army ROTC Wildcat Battalion kicked off a fundraising drive to help fund Phase 2 renovations to the General Don Carlos Buell Armory and Barker Hall at UK. The Armory is one of the oldest buildings on campus and was in great need of modern upgrades. Originally finished in 1901,…

Flat Stanley is a project where elementary students create a paper person to send around to friends and relatives. While Stanley is travelling, his host keeps track of the adventures he encounters. During the fall 2012 semester, MSG Lehman brought Flat Stanley for a day with the Wildcat…

The Wildcat Battalion partnered with the University of Louisville and University of Dayton for Spring Field Training Exercises at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. The Cadets conducted Land and Navigation training, staged attacks and ambushes, tackled the Air Assault obstacle course, and had the…

Cadets were honored for their achievements in academics and ROTC. We recognized achievements such as Top PT Score (male and female), Most Outstanding Cadet for each class, and new Ranger and Pershing Rifle members. Also, the Pershing Rifles named Major Marchetti an honorary member in…

University of Kentucky's College of Arts and Sciences and School of Art and Visual Studies welcomed Brooklyn-based, interdisciplinary artist Katherine Behar to campus as part of a two-week residency. The public was invited to experience Behar's work as well through "E-Waste," a free public…

Sean Bemis, an assistant professor in Earth and Environmental Science, studies the deformation of the tectonic plates that make up the earth’s crust. When he’s not out in the field “playing in the dirt,” as he would say, Bemis is in his renovated lab space in Slone Research Building, which is…

On Thursday, October 30th the departments of Chemistry and Physics/Astronomy met for their first annual “Spooktacular Celebration”. The afternoon event included a chili cook-off judged by all in attendance by ballot.

There was also a costume contest which was judged by Brad Harrington,…

In celebration of National Chemistry Week, the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry presented a demonstration show on Friday October 24, 2014. This fun-filled evening has become a much-anticipated annual event. Students of the department inform, entertain and amaze the audience of all…

The 2014 Distinguished UK Geology Alumni Award presentation was held October 9 prior to the Rast-Holbrook Seminar.

Wendell Overcash (UK B.S. Geology 1977, UK Law 1980), the Chair of the Geology Alumni Advisory board served as master of ceremonies. The full citations will be available…

Greenhouse students visited the Lexington Farmers Market and met with the markets business manager to learn how the market is run. Next they headed to Seedleaf and met with the director before spending some time helping in the new 'food forest' being installed in Lexington.

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Greenhouse students were welcomed into the program at the community induction ceremony.

Newly inducted Greenhouse students met the program’s faculty directors, undergraduate instructional assistants and program administrators. They had a chance to meet up with their peer mentors and get…

The CAFE Environmental Programs K Week event offered students a chance to learn more the college's majors and programs with an environment and sustainability focus.

Students were able to enjoy local foods such as hamburgers from Marksbury Farm Market, brats from the UK Butcher Shop, buns…

A&S Dean’s Circle members were on campus October 10, 2014 to meet up with Dean Mark Kornbluh, and hear about all of the exciting initiatives that are taking place in the College and at UK.

The group took a tour of Greenhouse – the new Environment & Sustainability Residential…

The College of Arts and Sciences inducted six new members into its Hall of Fame Oct. 10, 2014, with a ceremony at the Singletary Center for the Arts, bringing the current totals to 38 alumni and 13 emeritus faculty A&S Hall of Fame members.

2014 Alumni Inductees:…

On September 26, 2014, the College of Arts & Sciences was honored to recognize our top-achieving students at a reception in the Grand Ballroom on the campus of the University of Kentucky.

There were many proud parents and friends on hand to celebrate all the hard work of these…

The College of Arts & Sciences kicked off its fifth Passport to the World celebration – Year of the Middle East – Crossroads of the World, on Tuesday, September 4, on the Student Center Lawn. Food, t-shirts, henna tattooing and live music featuring Vanessa Paloma were enjoyed by the entire…

The Department of English welcomed renowned author Jill McCorkle for a reading on Wednesday, September 10, 2014, at the Art Museum in the Singletary Center for the Arts on UK’s campus. She also was in Lexington as a featured guest of the Kentucky Women’s Writers Conference. McCorkle published…

The 36th annual Kentucky Women Writers Conference opened on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 at the Lyric Theatre, with The Sonia Sanchez Series featuring Asha Bandele, author of the best-selling memoir, The Prisoner’s Wife, a second memoir, Some Kind of Beautiful, a novel, Daughter, and several volumes…

The keynote event of this year’s Kentucky Women Writers Conference took place on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, at Memorial Hall.

Brave New Words: A poetry reading and conversation with Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry for Life on…

Now in its third year, FastTrack is a residential academic program designed to prepare first-year students for rigorous undergraduate course work before the start of the fall semester.

FastTrack students also have the opportunity to move in early, giving them a head start on building…

The new Greenhouse program engages students in learning about many aspects of the local environment, all in the context of sustainability - and what better way to do that then having our students on bikes! Each new Greenhouse student was entered into a drawing to receive a brand new bike -…