The Department of Geography is excited to welcome Assistant Professor Betsy Beymer-Farris to its faculty!
This podcast is part of a series highlighting the new faculty members who joined the College of Arts and Sciences in the fall 2014 semester.
This podcast was produced by David Cole.
Honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by volunteering with organizations around Lexington such as the Hope Lodge, St. Agnes House and Habitat for Humanity.
Professor Margaret Archer will give a free lecture Friday, Dec. 12, at 4 p.m.
You could say they left the best for last, as master musician Don Pedi performs the final concert in the 2014 "Appalachia in the Bluegrass" concert series.
Title: My preferred proof of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem
Abstract: There are many different proofs of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem. The most familiar approach uses simplicial approximation and is often a first example of the power of simplicial homology. I'll talk about a very different proof that I find much more useful. This proof requires more input, but it generalizes easily.
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Dr. Chang-Guo Zhan will be presenting a seminar titled Drug Discovery and Development via Computational Design.
Faculty Host: Dr. Dong-Sheng Yang
Luke Glaser, a 2013 english and hispanic studies graduate from Louisville, Kentucky, and Grace Trimble, a political science senior, were recently named finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship.
A new book published by the University Press of Kentucky honors the legacy of prolific Kentucky writer, teacher, and scholar Jim Wayne Miller.
Paul Karan of the Geography department will be instructing a course on China's geography in the Spring semester. It isn't just about maps, as Karan explains in this podcast, but rather the different ways many major elements of human life can connect in one field of study. Karan also details how and why this course can be beneficial to anyone, even those outside of the Geography major.
