EES Professor Is First Kentucky Jefferson Science Fellow
Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor Frank Ettensohn is the first person from the Commonwealth of Kentucky to be named a Jefferson Science Fellow.
Sesquicentennial Stories: A Monumental Track
In celebration of the University of Kentucky's upcoming sesquicentennial in 2015, the 56th of 150 weekly installments remembers the dedication of a campus memorial to railroad development.
What's New in Science - Questions and Discussions Continue
What's New in Science Christia Brown
Part 4 of 4: In the realm of learning, societal and cultural differences are vastly more important to address than the few true gender differences.
Great Lakes Strings Conference
The 7th annual Great Lakes Strings Conference brings together researchers in fields related to string theory from the Midwest region and beyond. The program of 44 talks over 3 days will feature applications of string theory to condensed matter systems.
Sponsored by the Department of Physics & Astronomy and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Visit the conference website for more information - https://sites.google.com/site/greatlakesstrings2013/ .
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Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era: Arnold Farr
This November, scholars and activists from around the world will gather at UK to attend the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society. Arnold Farr, a philosopher and social theorist here at the University of Kentucky, is organizing the conference, which seeks to examine “Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era.”
The Science Behind What We Drink
Visiting Lecturer Dr. Rita Basuray teaches a course on the history of alcohol, and how the processes of fermentation and distillation tell the story of humanity. Watch as we take a video tour of the Alltech Lexington Brewing Company in Lexington, Kentucky to talk with the Master Brewer Ken Lee and Master Distiller Mark Coffman as they show off exactly how beer and bourbon are made.
Geography Guest Speaker: Sarah Whatmore
Sarah Whatmore is a Professor and Head of School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom. Her research is in the field of political ecology, examining policy and the actions of humans impact the environment. She is author of Hybrid Geographies: Nature Cultures Spaces (Sage London, 2002). She is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) and collaborates with researchers around the world.
Gatton's Kalam Scholars Gathering Is a Success
The 2013 Kalam Scholars Conference for Indian Business and Economic Research recently hosted by the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Economics is drawing rave reviews from participants and observers.