By Blair Hoover Conner
Over the past two weeks, millions of people worldwide have gathered around televisions to watch athletes across the world compete for their respective countries in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. For University of Kentucky students Beeson Shin and Wonjin Kim, watching the games is getting a glimpse of home.
Ain’t I a person? : Tout moun sé moun!“ is a mini-symposium that deploys Caribbean/Black studies as a platform to explore how “diasporic” communities in the Americas see others and envision themselves. This symposium considers theories associated with construction of self, personhood, and resistance as ways of conceiving and analyzing the construction of intercultural and diverse communities.
By Gail Hairston, Amy Jones-Timoney, and Kody Kiser
Many people can say they’ve been “around the world,” but only a few of those have actually set foot on all seven continents.
By Gail Hairston
Watch the trailer for "Wide as the Wind" by Edward Stanton above.
A third international book award has been presented to University of Kentucky Professor Emeritus Edward Stanton for his young adult, prehistorical fiction novel “Wide as the Wind” (2016, Open Books Press).
By Kathy Johnson
The Center for Equality and Social Justice at the University of Kentucky is hosting a conversation with Lexington Mayor Jim Gray as part of its Keys to Our Common Future conversation series. He speaks at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20, in the Boone Center in UK's campus.
Dateline: Lexington, KY
By D. Stephen Voss, Political Science Department Publicity Director
The American Political Science Association contacted Prof. Abby Córdova on Wednesday to announce that she and a coauthor will be receiving APSA's Centennial Center grant for their research on female representation in El Salvador.
By Jenny Wells
Jakub Famulski, an assistant professor of biology in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, has received a grant for over $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the early formation of the anterior segment of the eye. The research has the potential to lead to more treatment options for patients with blinding disorders.
By Julie Wrinn
Brittney Woodrum (B.A. ’15) never expected to major in Hispanic Studies, or train dolphins in Bermuda, or teach English to Buddhist nuns in Myanmar, or become a Fulbright Fellow. But she has done all of these things and is now in her second year as a Princeton Fellow in Asia. Connecting all of these endeavors is a love of languages, and that love caught fire in UK’s Department of Hispanic Studies.
This course introduces students to family social work and the theoretical perspectives and concepts that underlie social work with families. The course emphasizes the development and application of skills and techniques for conducting family assessments and for conceptualizing theory-based and research-informed intervention plans for families in need. The course addresses diverse family forms, cultural competence, and multi-problem familiies within the contexts of neighborhoods, schools, and communities.
