Introduction to New Maps Plus
Why New Maps Plus?
The New Maps Plus graduate programs at the University of Kentucky offer students a challenging, intensive, digital mapping curriculum that emphasizes the acquisition of technical skills—coding, GIS, web development—while also preparing students to critically address the complexity of today’s information ecosystem.
Read more about how New Maps Plus is unique: newmapsplus.uky.edu/all-about
Lake Tanganyika Fisheries Declining from Global Warming
By Whitney Harder
Pittard's "Listen to Me" Still Impressing Critics
By Gail Hairston
UK Researchers: Gut Bacteria Have Own Circadian Clock
By Whitney Harder
Exercise Your Mind at Chemistry Boot Camp
By Samantha Ponder
Haneberg Selected as New State Geologist, Kentucky Geological Survey Director
William C. Haneberg will become Kentucky’s 13th state geologist Sept. 1, 2016. An engineering geologist with a wide range of research, academic and applied experience, he will also serve as the director of the Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS), leading KGS into the future of its mission to investigate Kentucky’s energy, mineral and water resources, and geologic hazards.
UK Emeritus Professor Named to Spanish Royal Academy
John Jay Allen, emeritus professor of the University of Kentucky’s Department of Hispanic Studies, has been made a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of the Language (Real Academia Española de la Lengua), one of the highest academic honors in the Spanish-speaking world.

Allen taught in the UK College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Hispanic Studies (formerly Department of Spanish and Italian) from 1983 to 1999 and as emeritus professor since 2000.