Film Showing: My Father is Baryshnikov (Russia)
Co-Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass. $7/ticket; free with valid college ID
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UK Student Center, Centre Theater
Tetris Tournament
32 competitors will have the change to vie for the title of champion of Tetris, the Russian video game! The top two finishers will be awarded prizes. Come on out and show off your skills!
For more info or to register: http://www.as.uky.edu/tetris-tournament
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Cats Den, UK Student Center
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A&S Course Offers Lens into 2012 Election
The course, designed for first-year students, aims to facilitate high-level discussion in a nonpartisan manner and to explore how elections really work. The focus will span across historical data from past elections, such as voter demographics, important cultural issues such as religion, women's rights and civil rights, to the key challenges that the nation faces for the 2012 election.
Jim Duff Guest Lecture on Historical Presidential Campaigns
2012 A&S Hall of Fame Inductee Jim Duff visited the Currents class on Thursday, October 18, to give a lecture "Presidential Campaigning in Historical Perspective."
Watch and Learn: Viewing the Vice Presidential Debate with International Students
The Center for English as a Second Language organized a discussion and viewing of the 2012 Vice Presidential debate, which gave students an opportunity to practice conversation and express their political opinions. In this podcast, students share some political insight, comparisons to politics in their home countries, and reactions to the debate. View the photos from this event here.
Searching for a WIMP signal in the gamma-ray sky: Current status, results and challenges.
Indirect detection of dark matter is extremely important because it probes the same physics that took place in the early universe leading to the observed relic abundance. I will focus on the current state of dark matter annihilation searches, and latest results. In addition, I will discuss on how these results fit in the broad picture of dark matter physics and what are the key outstanding issues in this endeavor.
Political Science as a Path to Law School: Rachel Hensley
Rachel Hensley didn’t always know she wanted to study political science, but she found that the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts and Sciences had much to offer her both as a student finding her way, and as a Spanish language major. The broad variety of classes offered at UK and through the A&S college allowed Hensley the breathing room to work her way toward where she wanted to be.
Global Mountain Regions Conference: Ann Kingsolver and Sasikumar Balasundaram
This coming October 25th through 27th, the University of Kentucky’s Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program is set to kick-off their ambitious Global Mountain Regions Conference. The three day event is a transnational exploration and conversation of the shared economic, social, and historical challenges that mountain regions face within both national and global contexts.