Voss, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science in the University of Kentucky Colleges of Arts and Sciences, discusses how Mitch McConnell defeated challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes in the Kentucky Senate race.
Voss, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science in the University of Kentucky Colleges of Arts and Sciences, discusses Kentucky Senatorial candidates Mitch McConnell and Alison Lundergan Grimes and the national prominence of this election.
Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah, the former US Ambassador to China, will deliver a lecture at UK on Thursday, February 20th, 2014, at 7:30 pm in Memorial Hall. This lecture will address the possibilities and challenges represented by the current US relationship with China. A Q&A period will follow the lecture. Please encourage your students to attend if the topic is relevant to your courses or the workplace for which we are preparing our students.
The lecture will be free of charge, and is sponsored by the Office of the President, UK International Center, and the UK Confucius Institute. The lecture title and complete information will be forthcoming in January.
Organized by UK's Scripps Howard First Amendment Center and the Honors Program, the candidate form will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday in the Cats Den.
The Honorable Albert B. Chandler III (Ben Chandler) received his B.A. in history in 1983 and his J.D. in 1986. He was elected Kentucky Attorney General in 1995 and served as the United States Representative for Kentucky's 6th congressional district from 2004 to 2013. A long-time supporter of arts and humanities at the state and national level, he is now executive director the Kentucky Humanities Council.
The course, designed for first-year students, aims to facilitate high-level discussion in a nonpartisan manner and to explore how elections really work. The focus will span across historical data from past elections, such as voter demographics, important cultural issues such as religion, women's rights and civil rights, to the key challenges that the nation faces for the 2012 election.
Introduction to online course PS 391
Course will focus on selected topics drawn from various areas of political science taught by faculty members with special interests and competence. May be repeated in courses of differing topics to a maximum of 12 credits.
Gaines Center for the Humanities will present a symposium exploring the connections between religion and such topics as history, science and politics.
