Nick and Beth Kirby
Mathematics Ph.D. Students
Michael Dorff
Growing up in Los Angeles and studying as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University, Michael Dorff hadn’t heard a lot about Kentucky, let alone the University of Kentucky.
But while he was getting his masters in mathematics at the University of New Hampshire and trying to look for a doctoral program, one of his professors mentioned UK.
Amy Anderson
Writing Graduate Student
Envision 2020: The Future of A&S
<p>The summer months will provide many of us with time to further our individual efforts (and hopefully offer a little bit of rest). I plan to spend part of the summer furthering a planning initiative that commenced this Spring. In an effort to develop a common College vision, groups of faculty have been meeting to brainstorm what it means to be a college of excellence in 2020. This exercise, dubbed Envision 2020, relates in part to the University’s goal of becoming a top 20 public university in 2020, but it also provides us with the opportunity to
Anjan Gupta
Physics & Astronomy alum Dr. Anjan K. Gupta came to the University of Kentucky after earning bachelors and masters degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1995 in Kanpur, India.
Anjan is from a small city called Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, the most populated state in India.
“I wanted to go to the United States because I knew there would be many opportunities for research as a graduate student,” Anjan said. “I applied many places but I was interested in UK because they had a good condensed matter experimental department. I knew that’s what I wanted to pursue.”
Ashley Barton and Donny Loughry
Earth and Environmental Sciences Graduate Students
Holly Miller's Research Attracts Media Spotlight
<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.as.uky.edu/academics/departments_programs/Psychology/Psychol…; department has been receiving a lot of recognition for its latest research from graduate student Holly Miller. She has been providing insight to the brain’s use of glucose to perform acts of self-control, by studying dogs in a UK psychology lab.
Ganesh Tripathi
Earth and Environmental Science Graduate Student
Natalie Glover
Natalie Glover bears no material resemblance to Wassily Kandinski.
But the 23-year-old psychology graduate student has dealt with the abstract in ways that parallel this Russian abstract painter and art theorist.
The most obvious parallel is that Glover is a painter too. And like Kandinski, she realizes the intrinsic value of art in dealing with matters of human nature; of reflecting not only what is aesthetically pleasing, but also what is internally revealing.
Studying Abroad with Ruth Beattie
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.as.uky.edu/academics/departments_programs/Biology/Biology/fa… Beattie</a>, a professor of Biology, travels with students to Australia to study the diverse ecosystems in different locations around the continent. Students get to swim near the Great Barrier Reef, visiting World Heritage Sites, and also get to experience cosmopolitan culture in Sydney.