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A&S Students Get Glimpse of Home While Watching the Winter Olympics

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: IDENTITY, SELF, AND PERSONHOOD IN THE AMERICAS

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. 

UK Biology Research May Lead to Treatment for Blinding Disorders, Including Glaucoma

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.

Hispanic Studies Alumni Spotlight: Brittney Woodrum

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.

Theory-Informed Practice W/Families

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.

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