Helen Blau, director of Stanford University's Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, will deliver the sixth annual Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecture, presented by the University of Kentucky Department of Biology.
1. What do you do in your spare time?
While keeping up with two kids, I do my very best to make an attempt to go to the drag strip, truck pulls, or dyno events.
2. What is your favorite movie or book?
Major Payne, hands down.
3. Are you a cat person or a dog person (or do you like another species entirely)?
Love them both! I have two cats now, Chevy and Smokey, but hopefully we will be able to get a dog next summer.
4. What is the most interesting/your favorite place you've been?
Cairns, Australia. Even though we couldn’t swim in the ocean because of the jellyfish, it was by far one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited.
5. What is your favorite food?
I love summer time foods, good ole burgers and hotdogs (slightly burnt of course) off the grill.
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference is now accepting scripts by women for its 2015 Prize for Women Playwrights, which awards a $500 cash prize and a full theatrical production to the winner.
UK faculty extend the classroom beyond the Commonwealth
Kevin Yeager's lab can measure the rate of coastline loss in Louisiana or document the effects of exposure to radioactive fallout.
For more information regarding this opportunity and more head to: as.uky.edu/education-abroad
The preferred method of donating during the UK United Way of the Bluegrass Campaign for 2014 is payroll deduction. It is so simple and allows you to designate your funds to a specific agency. All donations that do not have a designation request will go into the general funds category and will be used for the most pressing needs in our community.
If you need a tutorial on how to complete the payroll deduction, please visit the link here.
As the official start of the UK United Way Campaign is set to begin on October 1 and run through October 31, I wanted to share with you a brief update on how we are doing so far.
Since the beginning of September, several areas are collecting "Change for Change." I am purposely not counting these funds until the campaign ends with hopes that more contributions will come in via this method of giving to the United Way.
In addition to the "Change for Change" program, we also held our first-ever Chili/Soup Cookoff as a kickoff to our United Way campaign.
Thank you to the following people for their contribution to the Cookoff:
Meaty Chili with Spaghetti -- George White
Bean Soup -- Beverly Clayborne
More than an “s” has been added since the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Science was created in 1908 with only seven faculty members.
You are cordially invited to the
University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences
HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY
Reception to follow
Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, at 3:30 p.m.
Singletary Center for the Arts
Alumni Inductees: Ethelee Davidson Baxter, ’61, Robert S. Lipman, ’74, Jill M. Rappis, ’80, & George Scherr, Ph.D., ’49, ’51
Faculty Inductees: George C. Herring & Keith B. MacAdam
This will count as a Wired event!
A special 1-credit opportunity to discover text mining and textual data analysis.
Across many disciplines, interest is increasing in the use of computational text analysis in the service of answering questions in the humanities and the social sciences. Media scientists analyze social media in order to predict corporate crises, political scientists and economists look for indicators of mood and sentiment in platform speeches and economic forecasts, literary scholars analyze the distribution of motifs in large numbers of texts in different literary epochs, and social historians and sociolinguists look for networks and connections among the people, places, and times related to the documents they study.
Following the distinction between "digitized" vs. "digital" scholarship, computers not only assist the work of researchers (digitized scholarship) but also transform the basis of the scholarship: they foster research that would have not been possible without digitization and increasing computing power (digital scholarship). Mapping emotions by mining huge numbers of books, or searching all Latin texts from Antiquity for paraphrases of Plato, are only two examples of investigations documenting the innovative potential of digital research. This transformation makes it necessary to reflect on the new relationship of scholars to their objects of investigation and to discuss the new ways researchers handle textual "data".
In this course we will familiarize ourselves with the concepts, debates, and selected tools within text-based digital scholarship and discuss the repercussions on the way we perceive and construct our objects of research.
