Matthew Wells, a professor of Chinese, was the coordinator for a four-week summer language program at Shanghai University. The exchange has forged a bond between University of Kentucky and Shanghai University, and the program is planning on sending more students over in 2012.
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Podcasts
https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Connecting%20China%20and%20Kentucky_Matthew%20Wells.mp3
Published August 24, 2011
https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Diversity%20in%20AS_%20Kim%20Clark.mp3
Kim Clark works for the UK Mathematics Department as accounting staff, but her involvement on campus doesn’t stop there! In addition to helping organize the A&S Diversity Committee, she is also an active member of the UK Women’s Forum.
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Published August 15, 2011
https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Creative%20Staff%20Support%20in%20International%20Studies_%20Kari%20Burchfield.mp3
Kari Burchfield works with A&S Interdisciplinary Programs and the International Studies Program and is also acting as staff support for the upcoming Year of China Initiative.
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Published August 15, 2011
https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Books%20and%20Zines_%20Cheyenne%20Hohman.mp3
Cheyenne Hohman is a graduate student in Library & Information Science at UK and is a podcasting coordinator for the College of A&S. We turned the tables on her to find out about her recent endeavors that included an internship at the Library of Congress and a Zine Writer's Residency in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Published August 11, 2011
https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Saartjie%20Baartman%20Internship_%20Corinne%20Price.mp3
Corrine Price, an undergraduate senior, worked as an intern at the Saartijie Baartman Centre for Women and Children, a domestic violence shelter in Cape Town, South Africa. The trip was sponsored by the University of Kentucky and was in conjunction with the Kentucky and South Africa Initiative: "Different Lands, Common Ground."
Published August 2, 2011
https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/WWI%20and%20Soviet%20Memory%20_%20Karen%20Petrone.mp3
History professor Karen Petrone's new book unearths a wealth of buried stories from the Soviet state about the memory of World War I.
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Published July 28, 2011
https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/summeronline.mp3
Mark Kornbluh, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, wants A&S students to succeed. One way they can stay on track is to take summer & online courses. The latest UK at the Half segment focused on course offerings for Summer 2012. Carl Nathe, host of UK at the Half, interviewed the Dean for the radio program, which airs during each UK basketball game.
Published July 28, 2011
https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/AS%20Wired_%20Nathan%20DeWall.mp3
Nathan DeWall is one of three co-directors of A&S Wired, a residential college which will open its doors in August 2011. In this interview, he discusses options for learning opportunities inside and out of A&S Wired.
Published July 28, 2011
https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Political%20Ecology_%20Patrick%20Bigger.mp3
Patrick Bigger is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. He is a co-founder and member of the Political Ecology Working Group, a multidisciplinary group that organized the first Political Ecology conference in February 2011.
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Published June 27, 2011
https://www.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Underwater%20Cave%20Diving%20in%20the%20Bahamas_%20Stephanie%20Schwabe.mp3
Stephanie Schwabe, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, studies underwater cave systems in the Bahamas and is the founder of the Rob Palmer Blue Holes Foundation. She was recently featured on a National Geographic Explorer episode about a dive and a near-death experience. In addition to talking about her research on cave formation, Schwabe discusses the challenges of being female in a male-dominated discipline.
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Published June 22, 2011
