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Award-Winning Mineral Collection Caps UK Alum’s Lifelong Interest in Geology

By Richard LeComte

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Wendell Overcash has one great collection – a collection of minerals that wow fellow enthusiasts and competition judges alike. Most recently, he won the Geofair Gem, Mineral, Fossil and Jewelry Show of Greater Cincinnati; it’s part of his collecting strategy to impress and impress big. He also recently received the Best of Species cabinet at a mineral show in Denver.

A&S Students Selected as 2022-23 College Ambassadors

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 14, 2022) — The University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences has selected 21 student representatives and two co-coordinators as College Ambassadors for the 2022-23 year. The A&S Ambassador Program encourages the development of leadership and communication skills while the students represent the college to visitors, alumni and current students.

Student Ambassadors for 2022-23 are:

A&S Students Named Chellgren Fellows

By C. Lynn Hiler

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 19, 2022) — The University of Kentucky Chellgren Center for Undergraduate Excellence announces  the 2022 class of Chellgren Student Fellows.

Created in 2005 with a gift from Paul Chellgren, a UK graduate, and his family, the Chellgren Center creates educational opportunities for outstanding undergraduate students and professors at the university. 

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On-shell Correlators and Color-Kinematics Duality in Curved Spacetimes

In this talk, we present progress towards generalizing on-shell kinematics and color-kinematics duality to curved spacetimes. First, we define a perturbatively calculable quantity—the on-shell correlator—which furnishes a unified description of particle dynamics in curved spacetime. Specializing to the cases of flat and anti-de Sitter space, on-shell correlators coincide precisely with on-shell scattering amplitudes and boundary correlators respectively. We then introduce a notion of on-shell kinematics for symmetric spaces in which the corresponding on-shell momenta are built from isometry generators. Using this isometric language in AdS, we compute scalar correlators and give a field-theoretic derivation of color-kinematics duality for the nonlinear sigma model. Finally, we comment on possible extensions to spacetimes without symmetry.

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Through Fulbright Scholar Program, UK geology professor unravels the erosion of the Appalachians — from Ireland

By Kent Ratajeski

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 15, 2022) — Dave Moecher, a professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, recently returned from Ireland, where he spent five months studying the erosion of the Appalachian Mountains and exploring the culture and history of the Emerald Isle.

A&S Welcomes New Faculty (2022-2023)

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Dr. William Turner - The Blues on Black Mountain: Stories from The Harlan Renaissance

Join us for Dr. Turner's presentation titled The Blues on Black Mountain: Stories from The Harlan Renaissance on Monday, October 17th at 5:00 pm in the UKAA Auditorium in the William T. Young Library. 

Dr. Turner's The Harlan Renaissance is the 2021 Winner of the Weatherford Award for Non-Fiction. He is a distinguished alumnus of the UK College of Arts & Sciences and a 2021 inductee into the College of Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. 

Reception to follow at the Appalachian Center at 624 Maxwelton Ct. at approximately 6:30 pm. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Appalachian Center & Appalachian Studies Program, Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, the Gaines Center for the Humanities, the African American and Africana Studies Program, and the Department of Sociology. 

 

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