Physics Doctoral Student Receives Key Award for Presentation
By Richard LeComte
Danielle Schaper, an experimental nuclear physics doctoral student and graduate assistant at the University of Kentucky and Los Alamos National Laboratory, has won the Harry Lustig Award from the American Physical Society.
Immigrants Out: A History of American Xenophobia
A discussion led by Dr. Erika Lee on the history of xenophobia in the U.S., based on her book, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Registration required to attend:
https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NLPNRefEQiOPxnaaPwp1tg
Erika Lee is vice president of the Organization of American Historians and a Regents Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, and director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. She is an active public intellectual who is a sought-after speaker in the media, nationally and internationally. She’s the author or co-author of award-winning books in U.S. immigration and Asian American history, including “America for Americans”; “The Making of Asian America: A History”; “Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America” with Judy Yung; and “At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943.”
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An Evening with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
This is the opening program for the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies at the University of Kentucky. This major inaugural event will feature an address from Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., the American literary critic, professor, filmmaker, public intellectual, and host of "Finding Your Roots," a groundbreaking genealogy series on PBS. He also serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
The Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies is a multidisciplinary research institute housed in the College of Arts & Sciences' Department of African American and Africana Studies (AAAS). It is a cutting-edge research think tank for Black Studies research, including issues of race and racism.
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A&S Professor's Painting Appears in Local Art Exhibit
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, KY. -- One member of the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts & Sciences is contributing to the cultural life in Lexington during the COVID-19 pandemic with a colorful painting at a local gallery.
Lyman T. Johnson Award Winners Announced
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 29, 2021) — The University of Kentucky Alumni Association Lyman T. Johnson African American Alumni Group, in partnership with the UK Office for Institutional Diversity, will host the 30th annual Lyman T. Johnson Torch Bearer and Torch of Excellence awards via Facebook Live at noon Monday, Feb. 1. The program honors and celebrates African American students and alumni from each college who epitomize the ideals of Lyman T. Johnson.
An Evening with Poet Li-Young Lee
An Evening with Poet Li-Young Lee: April 8, 2021 @ 7pm
Li-Young Lee is the author of five books of poetry, including his newest collection, The Undressing which is forthcoming in 2018. His earlier collections are Behind My Eyes; Book of My Nights; Rose, winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award; The City in Which I Love You, the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and will be reissued by BOA Editions in 2012. Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Event co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the Gaines Center
Check out his Poetry Foundation feature for poems and more information:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/li-young-lee
(registration link below)
https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H4mH8o1PTrChwbSjjpKr9A
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An Evening with Madeline Ffitch:
An Evening with Madeline Ffitch: March 25, 2021 @ 7pm
Madeline Ffitch writes and organizes in Appalachian Ohio. She was a founding member of the punk theater company, The Missoula Oblongata, and is the author of the story collection, Valparaiso, Round the Horn. Madeline has been awarded residencies at Yaddo and at the MacDowell Colony. She is the author of Stay and Fight from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Check out more of her writings on her website:
https://www.madelineffitch.com/stories
(registration link below)
https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0LIsHzHFQeCdyU65kh8jVQ
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Adv Geographic Info Sys & Landscape Anal
Advanced concepts in data base analysis, model development, and ancillary functions in geographic information systems. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, four hours per week.