The conference aimed to promote an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue about Asia’s past and present. The UK graduate students presented papers that explored specific interrelationships between Asia and the United States.
Terry O’Hare, who finished his time at UK with a degree in BS in Geology in 1980, has gone on to start his own company. At the Field Camp Reunion in 2013, he told us about his experiences at UK and at Field Camp, his thoughts on how to succeed with a degree in Geology, and how things have changed since he graduated.
Education Abroad and Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) team up on Wednesday, September 4 in the Breckinridge Courtyard from 3.30-5.30 to greet students and introduce them to the world that awaits them through interdisciplinary, international study. GWS is UK’s department for the transnational study of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Education Abroad facilitates undergraduate instruction with overseas travel. Students and faculty are invited to come hear about the GWS curriculum, which encourages study abroad. Drop in anytime, grab an ice cream treat, meet and mingle with GWS majors, minors, and faculty. We can’t wait to hear where you’ve been this summer or what you thought of Where Am I Wearing?, the book selected for UK’s common reading experience. We look forward to seeing you at the start of a brand new year! Rain location: second floor of Breckinridge Hall.
A passion for science, led University of Kentucky senior Devin Henry to her current path of a major in agricultural biotechnology and a minor in psychology, and a summer research opportunity at Cornell University.
As the University of Kentucky prepares its students to compete in a globalized world, it's crucial to provide students with what associate provost for international programs Susan Carvalho calls "China literacy."
The student co-presidents of the Graphite Creative Writing Association were brought together by the group’s faculty advisor, English associate professor Julia Johnson. The young student organization will work to do for the other creative writers on the University of Kentucky’s campus what the club has already done for them—create a stronger sense of fellowship and community.
In 2009, the Virtual Observatory And Ecological Informatics System (VOEIS) project was launched. Funded by an NSF EPSCoR grant, VOEIS united researchers at five universities in Kentucky and two universities in Montana to research the consequences of environmental changes in freshwater ecosystems.
Worsham Theater on the UK Campus Map
Presented by the Department of Physics & Astronomy, professor Sandra Faber of the University of California will speak on "Modern Gensis: The Amazing Story of our Cosmic Origins". Less than one hundred years ago, astronomers did not know about galaxies or that the Milky Way is a galaxy in a vast, frothy sea of galaxies. Today, astronomers have made remarkable progress in understanding how galaxies form in our expanding universe and the crucial role that they play in how the elements we are made of were built, and even how our planets and our solar system came to be. This lecture will distill a century of dramatic cosmic discoveries to present a comprehensive yet digestible account of why we are here and where we are going...cosmically speaking.
Sandra Faber is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Interim Director of the UCO/Lick Observatory. She is an observational astronomer with primary research interests in cosmology and galaxy formation. Some of her major discoveries include the first structural scaling law for galaxies (called the Faber-Jackson relation), the discovery of large-scale flow perturbations in the expansion of the universe, and the ubiquity of massive black holes at the centers of galaxies. In 1984, she and three colleagues presented the first detailed treatment of galaxy formation based on “cold dark matter,” which has since become the standard paradigm for galaxy formation in the universe. Faber was one of three astronomers who diagnosed the optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope, and she played a major role in its repair. From 1994-2005 she was Principal Investigator of the DEIMOS spectrograph, a large optical multi-object spectrograph for the Keck telescope that is the most powerful instrument of its kind in the world. She and colleagues used DEIMOS to conduct the DEEP redshift survey of the distant universe, which collected spectra of 50,000 distant galaxies and exploited the immense power of Keck to see and study galaxy formation 10 billion years back in time. She now leads the CANDELS project, the largest project in the history of the Hubble Space Telescope, to extend our view of galaxy formation back nearly to the Big Bang. In 2009, she was awarded the Bower Award for Achievement in Science from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and in 2012 she received the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the Russell Prize of the American Astronomical Society, both for lifetime scientific achievement. Most recently, she received the National Medal of Science from President Obama in February 2013.
The Workshop in Ancient Philosophy is hosted by the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University on March 21-22, 2014. Meetings will be held at the Boone Center (Friday, UK campus) and on the campus of Transylvania University (Saturday).
Kindler decided to pursue an International Studies minor, with a focus in the Middle East and conflict resolution. She remembers being in Bethlehem one night, talking with a Palestinian about the ongoing conflict in Israel and what he saw as a possible solution.
