Geography Alum Launches Open Source Pilot Project with Hardin County Water District No. 1

By Hannah Edelen

Charles Altendorf, a 2011 University of Kentucky alumnus, is using the skills he developed and honed as a geography student in the College of Arts & Sciences to help improve the mapping system at his current job with the Hardin County Water District No. 1. Working on a pilot project, Altendorf is attempting to convert the water district’s data analysis from traditional digital mapping to an open source method.

Black in Blue Premiere

Student Activities Board, Gatton Student Center, and the College of Arts & Sciences invites students, faculty, staff and community members to the Black in Blue film premiere. The free, public event will be held at 6:30 pm on Thursday, Feb. 21 in the Worsham Theater to look back at how the University of Kentucky’s football team broke the color line in the Southeastern Conference. Frank X Walker, will moderate a panel discussion following the film with the co-producers Paul Wagner and Paul Karem, Houston Hogg, Wilbur Hackett, Nate Northington, Mel Page and Jeremy Jarmon.

Special thanks to the Office for Institutional Diversity, Martin Luther King Center, and Black Student Union

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UK Society of Physics Students Recognized Nationally for Excellence

By Ellie Wnek

(L to r) SPS students Kris Andrew, Joseph Feliciano, Alston Croley, Lillie Cole, Dany Waller, Tom Shelton and Alex Blose.

The University of Kentucky Society of Physics Students (SPS) chapter has won an Outstanding Chapter Award and a Chapter Research Award from the SPS National Office. The Chapter Research Award is a competitive financial grant for a yearlong research project.

International Fashion Show

The College of Arts & Sciences “Passport To The World - Year of Migration” presented an international fashion show by local designer and activist Soreyda Benedit Begley at the Gatton Student Center. Benedit-Begley presented her “Our Ancestry” collection, which is dedicated to the Garifuna people of Honduras. 

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