On Friday September 16, 2011 at 3:30 P.M. there will be a concert featuring Colombian singer Claudia Grenier in the Niles Gallery of the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library. The concert will be followed by light refreshments at 4:30 P.M. This is event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies program as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.

On Wednesday September 21, 2011 at 7:00 P.M. there will be a Latin American music concert in Worsham theater featuring Latin American Studies professors and graduate students from the School of Music. The concert is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program and the School of Music.

UK professors and staff are invited to the university's second Teaching and Technology Fiar from 2-5 P.M. Thursday September 1st in teh Lexmark Public Room 209 of the Main Building.

The fair, sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, Division of Undergraduate Education and the Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT), is meant to be a one stop showplace for a variety of contemporary technologies that can be successfully employed in the traditional classroom.

Exhibits include the following:

·       "Creating Online Exhibits with open source web-publishing platform Omeka"

With access archivist Katie Henningsen and Associate Dean for Special Collections Deirdre Scaggs of UK Libraries

·       "Blackboard Tips and Tricks"

              With Blackboard coordinator Claire Carpenter

·       "Radio Call-In Shows"

With Agricultural Economics lecturer Roger Brown

·       "Google Docs and Utilities"

             With Director of Online Education Derek Eggers and the A&S Online Education team

·       "UK Libraries Electronic Resources"

With Carla Cantagallo, Miranda Hines, Jen Bartlet, Library Administration

·       "Better Power Point Presentations"

With CELT instructional consultant Kathryn Cunningham

·       "Beyond Power Point Visual Presentations"

With Chris Rice of UK's IT Enterprise Architecture Group

·       "Film, Images, Open Content Libraries and Repositories

With Director of Online Education Derek Eggers and the A&S Online Education team

·       "Inverted Classroom"

With statistics Professor Bill Rayens

·       "New Media projects"

With history Professor and CELT Director Kathi Kern

·       "Using Laptops in Classes via Adobe Connect"

With Jason Helms, Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media

·      "Connect Prof"

With Erskine Clinton of UK's Academic Technology Group

·       "Organizing Research Sources with research tool Zotero"

With CELT instructional consultant David Sacks

·       "ADA Compliance"

With Jacob Karnes and Susan Fogg of the Disability Resource Center

·       "Active-Learning Science with the iPad 2"

With physics Professor and Chair Mike Cavagnero

On Saturday, September 10th, Athletics will honor the Army and Air Force ROTC and families along with their Alumni, firefighters, police and paramedics at Heroes' Day 2011 during the UK football game against Central Michigan.

On Friday, September 9 at 8:46 A.M. the UK Army and Air Force ROTC Pershing Rifles Cadets will conduct a memorial vigil for the fallen at the Flag Pole on Administration Lawn with a swearing-in of newly contracted Cadets. At 9:00 A.M. they will begin reading the name of each victim of the 9/11 attacks. There will be an American flag posted for each victim, as well. The vigil will end with the ceremonial lowering of the state and national flags at 5:00 P.M.