UK Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Alan Fryar was recently featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education; his essay describes his experience with 11 students from the arid Middle East and North Africa who convened in drought-stricken San Angelo, Texas, to learn about water.
There is an informational meeting on the Summer London Theatre Program (July 21-Aug 10).
The program will run for 3 weeks this summer-- students will live in the heart of London, seeing shows, meeting professional theatre practitioners, and exploring and living in one of the most exciting cities in the world.
Please join Christina Ritter next Thursday, Jan 24, from 4:00 to 4:30pm, in room 127 of the Fine Arts Building for more information.
The University of Kentucky recently announced big upgrades to its supercomputing infrastructure. This means more power for researchers across the campus working on some of the questions that have puzzled us the longest.
Fibromyalgia causes pain that can be felt in muscles, joint and even skin. Although it is the most common musculoskeletal condition after osteoarthritis, it is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed.
Mannish explores and questions notions of gender and sexuality through religious imagery and inconography, heavily influenced by Byzantine and Haitian Voodoo art of the saints."
As part of this event, EnVaGe will perform excerpts of its new show with the Lexington Ballet featuring music by Piazzolla.
Free and open to the public.
Just because Neville Fogarty is working on an advanced degree doesn't keep him from following diverse interests. In addition to being a grad student in the Department of Mathematics, he plays Ultimate Frisbee, writes crossword puzzles, and participated in the Tetris tournament last semester.
Over the break, I had taken an online winter intercession Course (STA 210), this course was designed to be a semester long course but was jam-packed into 9 days. Since I am still on USP I needed this class to fulfill my requirements and graduate but it was not one that I wanted to spend an entire semester doing.
While I was thinking I was doing the smart thing by cramming it all into just over a week long course, it was difficult to do. First because I was out of town for the first week of the class and it was difficult to stay motivated to complete all the assignments every day but second because there was so much information being thrown at you at once it was easy to rush through the assignments to get them done. This was my approach to the class and while I felt great that I had completed all my assignments and did well in the course, at the end I felt as though I had not learned much from the course.
