Physics and Astronomy to Present 'History of the Universe' to Public Next Week
By Kathryn Macon
The University of Kentucky Department of Physics and Astronomy will host a public lecture on cosmology next week for a general audience. Presented by UK Physics Professor Ganpathy Murthy, "History of the Universe from the Big Bang to Now" will begin 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, in the William T. Young Library.
Breckinridge Bash & Fall course preview
Get to know the Gender & Women's Studies department! Learn more about new classes for the Fall: engaging, relevant to your lives, great for building writing and thinking skills!
Where: Start at Breckinridge Hall 112 and explore various offices
When: 3-4 pm, Monday 6 March
Snacks! Extra credit for (some) classes
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112 Breckinridge Hall
Language Talk - Episode 18
Our eighteenth Language Talk: KWLA podcast, Struggling Learners and Literacy, features hosts Laura Roché Youngworth and Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby discussing research-based strategies to engage at-risk learners in the world language classroom with author and UK professor Francis Bailey (Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language). Topics include: role of memory in learning, cultural disruption, and non-literacy oriented learners.
UK Celebrates its 2017 Great Teacher Award Winners
By Gail Hairston, Amy Jones-Timoney, and Kody Kiser
Six University of Kentucky educators were named recipients of the UK Alumni Association 2017 Great Teacher Award Tuesday night.
The recipients are:
UK CAER Receives $1.2 Million to Support Algae-Based Carbon Utilization Project
By Dave Melanson
The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research’s (CAER) Biofuels and Environmental Catalysis Group has received a $1.2 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant for their novel work in utilizing carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants to develop bioplastics.
AAAS Black Women's Conference: "We Represent! Black Women and the Visual Arts"
“We Represent! Black Women and the Visual Arts”, Lyric Theater (300 E Third St)
• 8:00am: Breakfast
• 9:30am-11:45am: Hands on workshop with Sonja Brooks and Natasha Giles
• 12:00pm: Lunch
• 1:00pm-4:00pm: 4 Black Women Artists in Conversation. Moderated by artist/curator, Marie T. Cochran
Introduction and Affrilachia Overview by Marie T. Cochran
Elizabeth Asche Douglas
Charlotte Ka
Lynn Marshall Linnemeier
Valeria Watson
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Lyric Theater
WPA mural open forum
The 1934 Mural painted by Ann Rice O’Hanlon has been a topic of campus debate for the last 40 years. Come join a community discussion after the mural’s re-unveiling. What does the mural represent to you?
Panelists: Melanie Goan, Department of History; Carol Taylor-Shim, UK Violence Intervention and Prevention Center. Moderated by Anastasia Curwood, History and African American and Africana Studies
Part of the AAAS Black Women's Conference
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Memorial Hall
Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, “Curating in the Present: Form as Stories or Stories that make Form”
12:00-1:30pm: Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Dartmouth College, “Curating in the Present: Form as Stories or Stories that make Form”, 21C Hotel Museum (167 W. Main St). Co-sponsored with the College of Fine Arts and part of AAAS' Black Women's Conference.
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21C Hotel Museum
Anthroplogy Graduate Student Wins National Prize for Research Paper
By Gail Hairston
University of Kentucky graduate student in anthropology, Mary Elizabeth Schmid, won the Eric R. Wolf Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Work for her paper "Tomatoes and Temporality: Political Economies of Time in the Fresh-Market Tomato Industry in the Southeastern U.S." The award is presented by the American Anthropological Association.