A&S Biology Junior Hopes to Change the Way We Age
Even though he's just a junior at UK, this year's Astronaut Scholar, Joshua Preston, has already had a published paper appear in a major journal, thanks to research conducted in the Kevin Pearson Laboratory. Watch why he hopes his future career as a scientist will change the way we age!
Video produced by UK Public Relations.
UK Students Promote STEM Education to Women and Girls Through #IAmAWomanInSTEM Projects
By Jenny Wells
For the second semester, University of Kentucky’s #IAmAWomanInSTEM project has awarded scholarships to 11 UK students for project proposals that promote STEM education and careers for women.
High School Students Visit UK to Test Their Logic, Linguistic Skills
By Gail Hairston
Dozens of high school students from all over Kentucky will converge on the University of Kentucky campus today (Thursday), Jan. 25, to test their logic and linguistic skills in the 2018 North American Computational Olympiad (NACLO), hosted by the UK Department of Linguistics.
A&S Physics Researchers Highlighted by American Physical Society
By Jenny Wells
Three University of Kentucky professors and a postdoctoral researcher in the UK College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics and Astronomy were featured in the American Physical Society's (APS) "Physics Highlights of the Year" for 2017.
Human Rights and the Cultural Politics of Empathy in the Colombian (post) Conflict
"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 communities 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.
Session 1- 3:30-4:30: This panel examines the question of performance and construction of identity, outside of the performing arts, in the US and in Haiti. The first paper will examine the relationship between Irish and African-American people living in New-York during the antebellum period. The second paper will concentrate on the relationship between the Haitian government and Jewish refugees during WWII.
Session 2- (Diasporic Dance) 4:45-6:45 :The second panel focuses on gwo ka and bèlè (dance and music) central to the traditional repertoire of the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique (mini dance workshop offered with drummer ). One paper and one dance workshop/discussion.
Learn more here:
https://mysymposia.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/aint-i-a-person-tout-moun-se-moun-identity-self-and-personhood-in-theamericas/ and https://mysymposia.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/abstracts-and-bios/
Undergraduate Students: Take Advantage of Summer Research Opportunities
By Gail Hairston
Rachel Pagano studied snake fungal disease in Kentucky's ecosystem.
Without the added pressure of daily classes, summer research can be especially rewarding for University of Kentucky underclassmen.