Organic Chemistry and Student Success with Susan Odom
Listen to Odom’s podcast for more on training students, next-generation battery research, and the connection between chemistry and cooking.
Pink Hair and a Chemistry Career
Four years ago, I was interviewing John Anthony in chemistry about his work on solar cells and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). He mentioned this crazy undergraduate student, who used to work in his lab, who constantly dyed her hair. She made bright orange and fluorescent pink LEDs that matched her “hair color of the week.” The science behind these organic compounds was intriguing, he told me, although he admitted there wasn’t much demand for those shades of LEDs in consumer electronics.
History Major Selected for Fulbright Summer Institute in England
The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that history junior Abigail King, of Lexington, has been selected for a place at a Fulbright Summer Institute to study at England's Durham University in one of the most prestigious and selective summer scholarship programs operating worldwide.
Magic in the Math Department
by Guy Spriggs
In organizing its spring 2016 information meeting for majors, the UK Department of Mathematics solicited faculty to give the closing address. Professor Richard Ehrenborg volunteered, but suggested a less traditional approach.
“I said I wasn’t going to give a talk,” he recalled. “I was going to do a show.”
Dawson Lecture
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First Episode of New Podcast, "Behind the Blue," Focuses on Election-Year Politics
Some stories require a little more — a little more discussion, more context, more depth and breadth.
That’s the idea behind “Behind the Blue” — a new weekly podcast created by UK Public Relations and Marketing. It is designed to explore — through probing, in-depth interviews — the stories that make UK the university for Kentucky and that have impact across the institution, the Commonwealth and, in some cases, the world.
Jennifer Hyndman - Refugees on the Edge: 'Distant Suffering' or Domesticated Distance?
Part of the 44th Annual Ellen Churchill Semple Day
Aprill 22, 2016 Department of Geography College of Arts & Sciences University of Kentucky
2nd Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium to be held June 3rd
The Society of Postdoctoral Scholars at the University of Kentucky is hosting a symposium to feature the work of postdoctoral scholars in Kentucky and surrounding areas. The event will feature a keynote presentation by UK's Dr. Hollie Swanson, a professor in the College of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, oral presentations by Kentucky postdocs, a poster session and a panel discussion on interviewing techniques.
Second Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium
The Society of Postdoctoral Scholars at the University of Kentucky is hosting a symposium to feature the work of postdoctoral scholars in Kentucky and surrounding areas. The event will feature a keynote presentation by UK’s Dr. Hollie Swanson, oral presentations by Kentucky postdocs, a poster session, and a panel discussion on interviewing techniques.
Talks will be held in the William T. Young Library/UKAA auditorium (Room 1-62, South Wing).
The poster presentation will be held in the Multipurpose Room 108C.
For more information, and if you wish to participate, please see the SOPS website or contact our organizers at uk.sops@gmail.com.
To submit an abstract for a talk or a poster, or to register to attend, please visit: tiny.cc/SOPS2016.
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