When Did My Skin Color Become a Threat?: A Discussion on Police Brutality and Discrimination

This week's topic for the Soup & Substance: Real Talk, Real Issues and Real People series is a discussion of police injustice, brutality and discrimination. The topic — "When Did My Skin Color Become a Threat?: A Discussion on Police Brutality and Discrimination" — was chosen from a student's Twitter suggestion.

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Martin Luther King Center, Student Center
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"Extended Healthspan Through Regenerative Medicine"

2014 Thomas Hunt Morgan Speaker Series

Dr. Helen Blau is the 2014 Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecturer. Dr. Blau has been the recipient of many honors and awards over the course of her career, including a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health (1995-2005). She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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UKAA Auditorium @ WT Young Library

"Reprograming StemCell Fate and Function"

2014 Thomas Hunt Morgan Speaker Series

Dr. Helen Blau is the 2014 Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecturer. Dr. Blau has been the recipient of many honors and awards over the course of her career, including a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health (1995-2005). She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Room 116 THM Biology Building

Appalachian Forum with talk by Fran Ansley on Labor Organizing in Appalachia

Please join the UK Appalachian Center at an Appalachian Forum with Dr. Fran Ansley, Professor Emeritus of law at the University of Tennessee Knoxville on Wednesday, November 5, 2014.  Dr. Ansley will give a talk entitled Telescoping Movements, Telescoping Time:  Five Decades of Looking for the Labor Movement  through an Appalachian Lens in the Niles Gallery from 3:30 to 5 p.m.  This is a part of the Appalachian Forum Speaker Series on Civil Rights, Labor and Environmental Movements in Appalachia.  The event is free and open to the public.

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Niles Gallery

2014 United Way Campaign Update

As we get ready to kick off the 2014 United Way campaign at UK, I would like to share with you information about upcoming opportunities to participate either by monetary or community service gifts.

First of all, on Tuesday, September 23, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., in Conference Room 318 in POT, we will kick off our Brown Bag sessions for the Fall. The first topic will be United Way and we are raising awareness and funds by hosting a Chili/Soup Cook Off. To participate, please plan to donate $2 to get samplings of soups, chili and deserts prepared by your co-workers. If you are interested in participating, please RSVP here and let us know if you will be bringing your special recipes for chili, soup or a desert. It should be a fun and informative session.

The Specter of Global China: Contesting the Power & Peril of Chinese State Capital in Zambia

Ching Kwan Lee graduated from the University of California-Berkeley Sociology Department, and is the author of the award winning Against the Law.  Her talk analyzes the peculiarity of outbound Chinese state capital by comparing it with global private capital in copper and construction in Zambia.  Refuting the dominant narratives of "Chinese colonialism" and "south-south cooperation," comparative ethnographic data collected over a 5-year period chronicle the multi-faceted struggles that confront and differentiate these two varieties of capital entailing uneven potentials for post-colonial African development.

There will also be a small workshop on doing ethnography in China at 10AM on the same day. (Please contact Thomas Janoski at tjanos@uky.edu for details)

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West Room, 18th Floor, Patterson Office Tower
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Five Things You Didn't Know About Stephanie Morris

I was born and raised in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. When I graduated from high school, I came to Lexington to attend UK and I have made it my home. 
 
1. What do you do in your spare time?  Spare time? What's that? When I leave work, my job of Mom to 4 just begins. I have a 20 year-old, Junior at UK; a 19 year-old Sophomore at EKU; a 16 year-old high school Junior at Henry Clay High School; and last, but certainly not least, an 8 year-old 4th grader at Dixie Elementary. My daughter is into drama and attends a program at UK called ACE (Academy for Creative Excellence). My 16 year-old plays baseball and we have followed him all over the state and region watching him play ball. My husband and I also love to travel with our children and his parents. We have been all over the world together. We've made some amazing memories from the jungles of Belize to the mountains of Hawaii and have traveled the waters all over the Caribbean.
 

Take Advantage of UK Human Resources Career Development

At the great suggestion from a mentor, I made an appointment and met with Diane Kohler.  She is Manager of UK Human Resources Career Development.  It really was a fantastic meeting. 

Before the meeting, I made an appointment as directed on the website and, after instruction from the office, filled out the required online questionnaire found here: http://www.uky.edu/hr/forms/career-development.  This step was important, I found, because it made me think.  It does ask for brief background information about career and education, other employment at UK, where you are currently, and how long you’ve been in your position.  Then comes the real “meat”.  What are your career goals?  What outcomes do you hope to achieve as a result of career counseling and/or job search coaching?  Oddly enough, as someone who considers myself a definite “Planner”, I really had to put thought into these answers.  As simple as it sounds, it was a great exercise for me.

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