The University of Kentucky's own MacAdam Observatory provides students with the opportunity to use the most powerful telescopic lenses on campus and see the universe. On clear nights, students are welcome to join director Tim Knauer and his graduate assistants as they look out into the stars and observe those celestial bodies.
Here, Tim and assistants Kyle and Aaron join us to talk about running the observatory and their experiences there.
Professor Emeritus, U Kentucky. He is the winner of the 1978 Herskovits Prize for his history of Nubia, Nubia: Corridor to Africa. In 2005 Adams was awarded the Order of the Two Niles, Sudan's highest civilian honor, for his contributions to Nubian history. Adams's work in Nubia began in 1959 as part of the UNESCO archaeological salvage campaign to excavate sites threatened by the rising flood waters of Lake Nasser following the construction of the Aswan Dam.
The University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences presents:
Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist lecture: “Inequality: Working Moms, Designated Daughters, and the Risks of Caregiving”
Friday, March 28th 2014 University of Kentucky Worsham Theatre 404 S. Limestone St. UK Student Center
Thanks to work by a group of geographers at the University of Kentucky, to ask “Where are you drinking?” may be just as telling as “What are you drinking?”
Dr. Yong-Baek Kim University of Toronto
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference will feature bestselling Southern author Jill McCorkle at the 2014 conference scheduled for Sept. 12-13.
International Ladino recording star and song writer Sarah Aroeste will speak at UK today and perform in Lexington tonight.
Undergraduate Learning Lab interns, including history and anthropology major Katie Elmore, will showcase their projects today at 3 p.m.
Professor Karl Raitz of the Department of Geography has been award the 2014 UK Libraries Award for Intellectual Achievement.
The upcoming QIPSR mini-conference and workshops aim to help UK researchers employ sophisticated research methods.
