I am thrilled to welcome a high caliber class of new faculty to the College this fall.  Arts & Sciences is fortunate to have 42 new faculty (professors and lecturers) joining us as the semester starts. Over the next few blogs, I hope to acquaint readers with these new additions to the A&S team.

Allow me to introduce these new faculty members in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics.

Kathleen Ponto (Mathematics)

Every airport map has a "you are here" point. There is a theorem in topology that says this always must be the case. Kathleen Ponto studies what happens to these kinds of points when you consider more complicated spaces - more dimensions, more twists and turns. She is particularly interested in ways to describe how many "you are here" points there are for a given map. These types of questions originally came up in geometric topology. Kathleen uses techniques from algebraic topology (especially stable homotopy theory) and higher category theory in her approach.
 

Matthew Schofield (Statistics)
 

I am thrilled to welcome a high caliber class of new faculty to the College this fall.  Arts & Sciences is fortunate to have 25 new instructors joining us as the semester starts. Over the next few blogs, I hope to acquaint readers with these new additions to the A&S team.

Allow me to introduce these two new faculty members in the Department of Hispanic Studies.

Mariana Amato specializes in Latin American literary and intellectual history from the 19th century onward. Mariana has written articles on the works of Mansilla, Lugones, Bellatin, Pauls and Quiroga. She is working on a manuscript that explores figures of the animal and the flesh in Latin American fiction of the 20th century.

Moises Castillo is a teacher and researcher in the area of Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture, specifically in Early Modern and Colonial Studies (16th and 17th centuries). His primary focus is on the study of the theater and the works of Cervantes.

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This summer the College of Arts and Sciences has expanded its curriculum to include online course offerings. I recently talked with UK President Lee Todd on WUKY's podcast "UK Perspectives" about the process of integrating technology into A&S, and I am honored to have been able to discuss the exciting progress that A&S has made as a whole.

To listen to our conversation, click here.