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Honoring Outstanding Teaching and Inclusive Excellence

By Blair Hoover Conner

The University of Kentucky recognized exceptional faculty and teaching assistants at the Outstanding Teaching Awards at the 2018 University of Kentucky Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 19, in the Lexmark Room at the Main Building. Recipients of Inclusive Excellence Awards, in partnership with the Office for Institutional Diversity, were also recognized.

UK Provost David Blackwell presented the William B. Sturgill Award, the Albert D. and Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial Prize, the Outstanding Teaching Faculty and Teaching Assistant Awards.

Kirwan Prize Awarded to Physics Professor Keh-Fei Liu

By Lindsey Piercy

Two University of Kentucky faculty members were honored for their outstanding contributions to teaching and scholarship at the 2018 Provost Awards ceremony held April 19.

Keh-Fei Liu, professor of physics and astronomy, was presented the 2018 Albert D. and Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial Prize, given each year to a faculty member in recognition of outstanding contributions to original research or scholarship, with an emphasis on work produced four years prior to the award.

Backup Items in Downloads Folder

Your Downloads folder is located on your computer's C drive and not automatically backed up to our A&S file servers.  This is not typically an issue since most people's Downloads folders consist of various free software installers and documents or pdfs downloaded from web pages.  We know sometimes you do make changes to these documents and save them back to you Downloads folder, so this tutorial walks you through moving select files out of Downloads and into your Documents folder.

'We Need to Protect Our Survivors.' Students Support Violence Victims at Clothesline Project Ceremony

By Lindsey Piercy

In front of a crowd of fellow classmates, faculty, staff and local leaders, victimology student Ann Pitts stepped to the podium and began to share a heartfelt story of hurt, hope and healing.

"Beyond protecting society from crime, we need to protect our survivors," Pitts said. "This has inspired a fire in me to keep pushing for change."

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