UK Research News

Gift Strengthens UK Libraries’ Mission to Document, Preserve Kentucky History

Nov 30, 2021, 7:38 AM

UK Libraries has established a faculty chair position to oversee and expand the library system’s collaboration with the John G Heyburn II Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary.

UK Awarded $14 Million NSF Grant to Launch World-Class Cultural Heritage Lab

Nov 5, 2021, 6:50 AM

Using NSF funding, Brent Seales has gathered a team of experts from UK's College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences to build EduceLab — UK’s vision for next-generation heritage science.

Acclaimed Historian and Author John M. Barry to Speak at CCTS Conference Today

Apr 7, 2021, 8:22 AM

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science kicks off its Spring Research Days with a keynote panel featuring acclaimed author John M. Barry. His 2004 book “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History” was a New York Times bestseller and named by the National Academies of Science as the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine.

Gaines Center’s Lafayette Seminar to Examine History, Passion Surrounding Anthems

Mar 31, 2021, 8:25 AM

Noted Princeton University scholar and creative nonfiction author Imani Perry will lead the online conversation. She is the author of “May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem,” winner of the 2019 American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Book Award, the Hurston Wright Award for Nonfiction, and finalist for an NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction.

Reading the Unreadable: Seales and Team Reveal Dead Sea Scroll Text

Jul 23, 2020, 8:30 AM

Brent Seales, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at UK, is considered the foremost expert in the digital restoration of damaged and unreadable manuscripts. To this day, his quest to uncover the wisdom of the ancients is ever evolving.

History Student Helps Bring Black Appalachian Experiences to Life

Feb 21, 2020, 8:28 AM

In just a few weeks, UK will welcome students, scholars and activists to campus for the 43rd annual Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) conference March 12-15. Themed "Appalachian Understories," the conference will emphasize the often obscured voices of the region, including black Appalachians.

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Opportunity to Join Research Team Transforms UK Students’ Careers

Nov 21, 2019, 8:17 AM

When students come to the UK, they discover many opportunities that ignite their passion. For Kyra Seevers, Kristina Gessel and Stephen Parsons, that opportunity was undergraduate research.

Student Researcher Changes Way Philosopher's Work is Interpreted

Aug 5, 2019, 9:22 AM

Through an internship in the Learning Lab, Samadi was tasked with researching a journal thought to be written by famous existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre that had been carefully housed in an acid-free box on a shelf in the Margaret I. King Library's Special Collections Research Center for over 50 years.

'Behind the Blue': UK Anthropologist Dick Jefferies’ Fascinating Work

May 29, 2019, 8:57 AM

UK Professor Richard "Dick" Jefferies, an archaeologist, uncovers objects that shed light on how people in Kentucky and elsewhere lived hundreds and even thousands of years ago.

NEH to Fund Digitization of Sacred Music Collection at Niles Center

May 22, 2019, 8:54 AM

University of Kentucky's John Jacob Niles Center for American Music is home to one of four archives of sacred music that will benefit from the Sounding Spirit initiative's second grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support pioneering work in digital scholarly editions.

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