First Day of Classes
Fall semester classes begin on Aug. 23, 2021. View the full academic calendar for the fall semester here.
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A Persistent Student: Sarah McCurrach Restarts Interrupted Study in Heidelberg to Finish Her UK Studies
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- In March 2020, Sarah McCurrach was asleep in Heidelberg, Germany, as messages crammed into her cell phone. When she awoke, she found out that a virus rampaging across the world was about to interrupt her education-abroad studies through the University of Kentucky.
UK Honors Outstanding Senior Students and Staff With Lead Blue, Singletary Awards
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 17, 2021) — The University of Kentucky honored two winners for the Otis A. Singletary Outstanding Senior Award, Auburn Mattingly and Ngoc Phan, and two finalists, Lily Hurt and Courtney Wheeler, along with many other students and staff members during the hybrid Lead Blue: Student Organizations Celebration and Award Ceremony on April 28.
2 A&S Faculty Members Named 2021-2022 University Research Professors
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 4, 2021) — The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees at a May 4 meeting announced that two College of Arts & Sciences faculty members have received University Research Professorship Awards. These awards recognize excellence in research and creative work that addresses scientific, social, cultural, economic and health challenges in our region and around the world.
Dr. Patricia A. Cooper (Gender & Women’s Studies)
Patty Cooper, born in 1949, grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her feminist consciousness and anti-war activism arose while she was an undergraduate student at Mary Washington College and Wittenberg University from 1967 to 1971. Eager to help rewrite the conventional narrative of U.S. history, Cooper started graduate studies in 1972 at the University of Maryland. She focused on women’s, Black and working-class history and held assistantships with the Booker T.
College of Arts and Sciences to Induct 6 New Members Into 2020 Hall of Fame at Virtual Ceremony
By Jenny Wells-Hosley
The University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences will induct six new members into the A&S Hall of Fame next week as part of its 2020 class of inductees.
UK Celebrates Women’s History Month
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 5, 2021) — Throughout the month of March, the University of Kentucky will recognize Women’s History Month with a series of events and special programs.
GWS Colloquia: Dr. Aria Halliday
GWS Colloquia: Dr. Aria Halliday
Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Program in African American and Africana Studies, UK
Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Program in African American and Africana Studies, UK
Talk Title: “Black Women Consume Your Imagination”
Meeting ID: 810 2367 9503
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GWS Colloquia: Dr. Lindsey Chambers
GWS Colloquia: Dr. Lindsey Chambers
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UK
Talk title: “It’s Complicated: What our attitudes toward pregnancy, abortion, and miscarriage tell
us about the moral status of early fetuses”
Meeting ID: 810 2367 9503
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GWS Colloquia: Dr. Cheryl Matias
GWS Colloquia: Dr. Cheryl Matias
Professor & Director of Secondary Education & MIC, UK
Talk title: "Why White Tears are Dangerous?: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Racial Justice in Education"
Meeting ID: 810 2367 9503
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