All A&S undergraduate and graduate Students of Color in Mathematics and Science (SCiMS) are invited for an evening of fellowship, food, and fun!
Questions? Please contact Billie Haley.
Prof. Catherine Wanner (Penn State University) has conducted 30 years of ethnographic research in Ukraine. She is the author or editor of seven books, including her most recent monograph, Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine (Cornell University Press, 2022), and the forthcoming edited volume, Dispossession: Imperial Legacies and the Russo-Ukrainian War (Routledge, 2023). Her research has focused primarily on the politics of religion in Ukraine and increasingly on human rights and conflict mediation within the context of war. She is the convenor of the Working Group on Lived Religion in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In 2020 she was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Prize from the Association for the Study of Eastern Christianity.
Sponsored by World Religions, History, Anthropology, Sociology, MCL, and the Lewis Honors College, and with special thanks for the support of the Gaines Center for the Humanities.
The Clark Lecture, sponsored by the Gaines Center for the Humanities, for 2023 will be given by Prof. Deborah Deliyannis (Indiana University, Bloomington). Prof. Deliyannis draws upon archaeology and architectural history in her studies of the way history was written in the Early Middle Ages. She is the author of several monographs, including Ravenna in Late Antiquity, which treats the history of the city and monuments of Ravenna from the fifth to the ninth centuries (2010). Her most recent book, Fifty Early Medieval Things, was co-written with Paolo Squatriti and Hendrik Dey, and was published in 2019. Her current book project considers the role of bishops as church-builders, from late antiquity through the Carolingian period. She is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
Dr. Francois Spitz | Spitz LabBio:
PhD from Université Paris 6 (France)
Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (2006-2015) (Heidelberg, Germany)
Head of Research Unit at the Institut Pasteur (2015-2019) (Paris, France)
Professor, The University of Chicago (2019-.)
Abstract:
The mechanisms that regulate the efficiency and specificity of interactions between distant genes and cis-regulatory elements such as enhancers play a central role in shaping the specific regulatory programs that control cell fate and identity. In particular, the (epi)genetic elements that organize the 3D folding of the genome in specific loops and domains have emerged as key determinants of this process. I will discuss our current views on how 3D genome architecture is organized, how it influences gene regulatory interactions and illustrate how alterations of the mechanisms and elements that organize genomes in 3D could contribute to genomic disorders and genome evolution.
This weekend celebration is a collaboration with the Office of Institutional Diversity, the College of Arts & Sciences/Commonwealth Institute on Black Studies (CIBS), the UK Alumni Association, and the UK Office of Philanthropy. We are looking forward to welcoming alumni back to campus for a fun-filled weekend.
The 28th Annual Black Women's Conference, "Excavating the Lives of Black Women," will take place virtually on March 24, 2023.
Please register for each event here:
10 a.m. | Panel with Whitney Baptiste Battle & Ayana Omilade-Flewellen | Register Here
2 p.m. | Keynote with Dr. Afua Cooper | Register Here
Saturday, March 25, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Cemetery clean-up at African Cemetery No. 2. (419 E 7th Street, Lexington)
Community volunteer event will assist with headstone cleaning and minor landscape clearing in this historic cemetery. A brief tour of the cemetery, including a focus on the graves of notable women buried in the cemetery who contributed locally to the thoroughbred industry, social safety nets, education, and politics.
Parking is in the cemetery itself. Participants should drive in through either of the two gates and park far enough to one side to leave a driving lane. We will assemble at the center garden
Henry D. Fetter is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the California and New York Bars. He holds degrees in History from Harvard College and the University of California, Berkeley and has written about the Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court and antisemitism in American law schools. He is currently working on a book about Louis D. Brandeis’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1916.
Zoom link for registration: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K8yI0T-ETJqiy-cuitMLvA
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In 2022, researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences received more than $21,500,000 in external funding, from over 60 different sponsors across the entire range of disciplines in the College. We are well on our way to exceeding that total in 2023 and setting another record for grant performance. The total grant activity, including grants where our faculty are Co-PI on grants with faculty members from other Colleges and Research Centers, exceeds $120M.
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