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Applications now open: Mary C. Bingham Seminar to take place Spring 2026

This spring, the Gaines Center for the Humanities will host the 2026 Mary C. Bingham Seminar — HMN 300: Sustainable Futures Design Lab — an extraordinary opportunity for students to combine academic inquiry with hands-on, real-world engagement.

Call for submissions: 2025 Oswald Research and Creativity Competition

The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research is now accepting submissions for the 61st annual Oswald Research and Creativity Competition.

Seales honored with UK Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement

On May 15, UK Libraries will celebrate and honor computer science professor Brent Seales, Ph.D., as the 2025 recipient of the UK Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement.

Step inside the creative research process with ‘Inside the Lab’ event series

The “Inside the Lab: Works in Progress” event series offers a behind-the-scenes look at the workspaces of researchers, designers, artists and scholars engaged in groundbreaking projects.

UK Gaines Center to host Lafayette Seminar on Public Issues

The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities invites the public to the 2025 Lafayette Seminar in Public Issues, featuring Lexington Vice Mayor Dan Wu as moderator.

Gaines Center selects newest cohort of Gaines Fellows

Twelve students will join the two-year program that enriches the undergraduate experience by fostering an interdisciplinary approach to the humanities.

Advancing collaborative, community-engaged research focus of UNITE showcase

The 2025 UNITE Research Showcase will celebrate innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration and impactful research among faculty, students and community stakeholders.

Anastasia Todd to deliver inaugural Gaines Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities

The Gaines Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities spotlights groundbreaking work related to the Gaines Center’s annual theme, which for 2024-2025 is Health and the Humanities. 

Call for submissions: UK’s open-access, interdisciplinary undergraduate research journal

The UK Office of Undergraduate Research is accepting submissions for the 2024-25 issue of Aperture, an open-access, interdisciplinary student journal. The submission deadline is Feb. 15.

Bridging past and future: UK’s Brent Seales to lead national AI-humanities initiative at Schmidt Sciences

Brent Seales, a computer science professor at UK, has been selected to lead a new national program that supports research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the humanities. 

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