LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 26, 2025) — The University of Kentucky is well-represented on a list of the most-cited researchers in the world. In a database compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, 136 current UK scientists and scholars appear among the top 2% of the most-cited researchers across 22 disciplines.
By Tom Musgrave
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 25, 2025) — Three University of Kentucky graduates have received awards from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Kentucky NSF EPSCoR’s CLIMBS project will hold a screening of two documentaries. After the documentaries, there will be a panel discussion with a Q&A session about storm resilience, featuring professionals across disciplines. This event will provide an avenue for further collaboration and potential partnerships on this topic across institutions, organizations, and businesses. All Is Not Lost, by the non-profit, Letcher County-based media group Appalshop, underscores the unprecedented nature of the 2022 Eastern Kentucky flood and through in-depth community interviews, and showcases Letcher County's efforts to recover and rebuild. CLIMBS - Kentucky Climate Resilience - The Documentary highlights how CLIMBS, the collaborative research project from KY NSF EPSCoR, is seeking to build climate resilience through interdisciplinary research across the commonwealth.
The films will be followed by a panel discussion emceed by Shane Holinde of WKU and the KY Climate Center, a former TV meteorologist who covered the deadly tornadoes in 2021. Panelists include Rebekah Radtke (UK College of Design), Ryan Thigpen (UK EES & CLIMBS), Aaron Asbury (Film Director at Appalshop), and Trinity Adams (Graduate student at UK Appalachian Center). The free event is July 18, 9:15-noon, at UK’s Worsham Cinema in the Gatton Student Center.
LEXINGTON, Ky. ) — The University of Kentucky Materials Science Research Priority Area has selected 11 researchers as recipients of multiple funding awards. The area offers a variety of funding mechanisms to support materials research across UK and expand the RPA’s breadth and depth of work.
Lexington’s Freedom Train committee, along with Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, invite the public to a community event this Juneteenth, where they will unveil a sculpture of two significant historical figures.
“Towards Freedom” is the centerpiece and first phase of a monument dedicated to Lewis and Harriet Hayden, two of Lexington’s enslaved who became famed abolitionists. The monument also remembers the stories of other enslaved persons in Lexington and commemorates their paths to freedom via Lexington’s Underground Railroad. Learn more at https://www.lexfreedomtrain.org/.
The committee includes UK faculty members Vanessa Holden, associate professor of African American and Africana studies; Frank X Walker, professor English; and Garry Bibbs, professor of art studio, metal arts and sculpture.
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By Francis Von Mann
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 10, 2025) - The College of Arts and Sciences has a number of students selected for the 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Award program. This year’s SURA recipients represent a an array of academic disciplines and will engage in immersive, faculty-mentored research across the University of Kentucky campus.
The SURA awards provide $5,000 to support Arts and Sciences undergraduate students pursuing summer research full-time.
By Jenny Wells-Hosley and Dan Knapp
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 9, 2025) — James “Jimmy” Dunne, a 1977 University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences graduate, has built a successful and wide-ranging career in entertainment — as a songwriter, composer, television and film producer and entrepreneur.
