Charles Herschel Holmes Griffith: Laboratory Supervisor & Legend
By J. Susan Griffith, M.D.
A&S Faculty Members Receive Alternative Textbook Grants
By Adrian Ho and Richard LeComte
The Pandemic and the Professor: COVID-19’s Challenges for Teaching and Learning, and the Lasting Implications for Higher Education
As a prelude to the Fall Semester, Associate Provost Kathi Kern and Dean Mark Kornbluh discuss the challenges posed by teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Faculty and students alike worry about the logistics. How will we maintain a safe and healthy learning environment? How much of instruction will need to be moved online or “flipped”? How does technology enable or restrict us? How do we continue to foster strong student-teacher bonds at a distance? How do we build community in our current environment?
University of Kentucky Biology 2020 Graduates
A message from our faculty to the Biology Class of 2020.
Peace Studies, Mechanical Engineering Pave Career Path for Alumna Sydney Litterer
By Julie Wrinn
By choosing to attend the University of Kentucky, 600 miles away from her childhood home in Manchester, Iowa, Sydney Litterer was testing herself. She had an interest in working abroad, and she figured that if she could handle going to college so far from home, she might be comfortable living overseas.
“It was a bit of a test run,” she said. “I started looking out of state almost exclusively, and the international focus was a really big factor for me.”
UK Gaines Center for the Humanities Videos Explore How Kentucky Creatives are Weathering COVID-19
By Whitney Hale
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 19, 2020) — While many find working from home during a global pandemic difficult, others find the change of environment and schedule spurs their creativity. The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities is exploring the impact of this time on creatives as part of a new video series, “Over Yonder: Conversations with Artists and Scholars on Social Distancing.”
A&S Scholar Named Zantker Charitable Foundation Professor in History
By Addison Cave
LEXINGTON, KY. (June 22) -- Sheila Jelen, interim director of the program in Jewish Studies and associate professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the College of Arts & Sciences at University of Kentucky, was recently awarded the Zantker Charitable Foundation Professorship in History.