Meet Jeramiah Smith: New Faculty 2011

At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Jeremiah Smith is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology. Smith's area of focus is on genetics and genomics, particularly on how the genome is put together and why it occurs the way that it does. His current research projects concentrate on the lamprey genome.

Meet Mark Whitaker: New Faculty 2011

At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Mark Whitaker is a professor in the Department of Anthropology. For the past thirty years, Whitaker has been studying Tamil speaking people who live in the east coast of Sri Lanka. In addition to his research in Sri Lanka, Whitaker also works with diasporic communities of Tamil speaking people in Toronto, Canada.

Kent Masterson Brown - Guest Speaker

Kent Masterson Brown, a Lexington attorney who has written several articles and several well-received books on the American Civil War, including Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander, will be speaking at 5:30 p.m. in Worsham Theater October 4.  Through his comany, Witnessing History, he has created three documentary films:  "Retreat from Gettysburg", "Bourbon and Kentucky", and his latest "Henry Clay and the Struggle for the Union", which will be aired on KET.  Mr. Brown will discuss his latest book, One of Morgan's Men:  Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry.  We hope you will join!

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Location:
Worsham Theater in the Student Center

A&S Alumni Speaker Series - Former Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry

The A&S Alumni Speaker Series will host former Lexington mayor Jim Newberry on Wednesday, September 28th at 7:00 P.M. in the Recital Hall of the Singletary Center for the Arts. The event is free and open to the public.

 
For more information about A&S Alumni Jim Newberry, read this story.
 
 
Date:
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Location:
Recital Hall - Singletary Center for the Arts

Social Theory First Working Paper

 

The Committee on Social Theory will have the first faculty working paper on Thursday September 29th, by Arnold Farr (Philosophy): "In Search of Radical Subjectivity: Rereading Marcuse After Honneth". A discussion by two respondents: Jeremy Popkin (History) and Joe O'Neil (German) and a general discussion with all present will take place: 

Thursday, September 29th

6:30pm-8:00pm or 8:30pm depending on the length of the discussion

Commonwealth House of the Gaines Center

Upstairs seminar room

Wine and light snacks to accompany discussion

Date:
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Location:
Commonwealth House of the Gaines Center

Organometallic Heterocycle and Quinone Complexes of Ruthenium, Iron and Manganese - Chemistry Seminar

Uttam Pokharel of the UK Chemistry Department will be presenting a seminar entitled, "Organometallic Heterocycle and Quinone Complexes of Ruthenium, Iron and Manganese."
 
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Selegue
Date:
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Location:
CP-137

Pin1-Catalyzed Conformational Regulation in Aging, Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease - Chemistry Seminar

Dr K Ping Lu of Harvard Medical School will be presenting a seminar entitled, "Pin1-Catalyzed Conformational Regulation in Aging, Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease."

For more information about Dr. Lu and his research, click here.

Facutly Host: Dr. Butterfield

Date:
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Location:
CP-137
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