<p>Summer is generally considered a time of higher flexibility for students, and being able to offer online education was an opportunity that A&S wanted to offer to its student body. I am excited to report that the flexibility and quality of these courses has resonated with the participants, and that online courses will be an integral part of what A&S has to offer in the future – for our current students and alumni.</p>
<p>May’s bike commuter challenge was the most successful one in the history of the event, and the University of Kentucky earned first place in three categories (determined by size). UK Libraries IT, the Department of Chemistry, and the College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office all earned first place in their categories. By biking to work, the participants were helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and represented a sustainable alternative to using fossil fuels.
Growing up in Los Angeles and studying as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University, Michael Dorff hadn’t heard a lot about Kentucky, let alone the University of Kentucky.
But while he was getting his masters in mathematics at the University of New Hampshire and trying to look for a doctoral program, one of his professors mentioned UK.
<p>The summer months will provide many of us with time to further our individual efforts (and hopefully offer a little bit of rest). I plan to spend part of the summer furthering a planning initiative that commenced this Spring. In an effort to develop a common College vision, groups of faculty have been meeting to brainstorm what it means to be a college of excellence in 2020. This exercise, dubbed Envision 2020, relates in part to the University’s goal of becoming a top 20 public university in 2020, but it also provides us with the opportunity to
Physics & Astronomy alum Dr. Anjan K. Gupta came to the University of Kentucky after earning bachelors and masters degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1995 in Kanpur, India.
Anjan is from a small city called Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, the most populated state in India.
“I wanted to go to the United States because I knew there would be many opportunities for research as a graduate student,” Anjan said. “I applied many places but I was interested in UK because they had a good condensed matter experimental department. I knew that’s what I wanted to pursue.”
<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.as.uky.edu/academics/departments_programs/Psychology/Psychol…; department has been receiving a lot of recognition for its latest research from graduate student Holly Miller. She has been providing insight to the brain’s use of glucose to perform acts of self-control, by studying dogs in a UK psychology lab.
