Magic in the Math Department
by Guy Spriggs
In organizing its spring 2016 information meeting for majors, the UK Department of Mathematics solicited faculty to give the closing address. Professor Richard Ehrenborg volunteered, but suggested a less traditional approach.
“I said I wasn’t going to give a talk,” he recalled. “I was going to do a show.”
Dawson Lecture
First Episode of New Podcast, "Behind the Blue," Focuses on Election-Year Politics
Jennifer Hyndman - Refugees on the Edge: 'Distant Suffering' or Domesticated Distance?
Part of the 44th Annual Ellen Churchill Semple Day
Aprill 22, 2016 Department of Geography College of Arts & Sciences University of Kentucky
2nd Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium to be held June 3rd
The Society of Postdoctoral Scholars at the University of Kentucky is hosting a symposium to feature the work of postdoctoral scholars in Kentucky and surrounding areas. The event will feature a keynote presentation by UK's Dr. Hollie Swanson, a professor in the College of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, oral presentations by Kentucky postdocs, a poster session and a panel discussion on interviewing techniques.
Second Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium
The Society of Postdoctoral Scholars at the University of Kentucky is hosting a symposium to feature the work of postdoctoral scholars in Kentucky and surrounding areas. The event will feature a keynote presentation by UK’s Dr. Hollie Swanson, oral presentations by Kentucky postdocs, a poster session, and a panel discussion on interviewing techniques.
Talks will be held in the William T. Young Library/UKAA auditorium (Room 1-62, South Wing).
The poster presentation will be held in the Multipurpose Room 108C.
For more information, and if you wish to participate, please see the SOPS website or contact our organizers at uk.sops@gmail.com.
To submit an abstract for a talk or a poster, or to register to attend, please visit: tiny.cc/SOPS2016.
UK Staff Trustee Candidates Will Debate Thursday
By Ann Eads
(May 10, 2016) – The University of Kentucky Staff Senate will moderate a debate between staff representative to the Board of Trustees candidates at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 12, in the auditorium of the William T. Young Library.
Five Students from University of Kentucky Receive U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship
The following University of Kentucky students have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) to study critical languages during the summer of 2016: