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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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Art History, Jewish Studies Researchers Take UK Libraries Awards for Undergrad Scholarship

May 17, 2019, 8:46 AM

University of Kentucky Libraries awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Scholarship to art history and visual studies senior Emily Hedges and biology and Lewis Honors College junior Hannah Thompson at the UK Libraries Spring Gala.

'Behind the Blue': UK’s Brent Seales Digitally 'Unwraps' Ancient Texts, Other Treasures

May 14, 2019, 8:21 AM

Thanks to work spearheaded by College of Engineering faculty member W. Brent Seales, UK is poised to become the world-class leader in digitally "unwrapping" and restoring one-of-a-kind cultural artifacts, such as ancient manuscripts.

After Finding Passion in Research at UK, She Hopes to Inspire Others

Apr 30, 2019, 9:24 AM

Inspired by her peers, Kenyatta Mitchell completed her undergraduate research focusing on civil rights coalitions in Mississippi. She traveled 850 miles to Mississippi where she found answers beyond her initial research question.

John Thelin’s New Book Examines Going to College in the Sixties

Feb 28, 2019, 10:51 AM

John Thelin, a University Research Professor in the educational policy studies and evaluation department in the UK College of Education, has published prolifically on the history of higher education and college sports.

UK Oral Historian Doug Boyd Receives Fulbright to do Research in Australia

Dec 7, 2018, 1:22 PM

Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to fund research in Australia as part of a project to expand the operability of the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer technology developed at UK.

UK Professor Receives NEH Grant for Urban Renewal Research

Oct 10, 2018, 9:27 AM

Appler's grant is among the first awards made under the National Endowment for the Humanities' new Infrastructure and Capacity-Building Challenge Grant program, which will support infrastructure projects at 29 U.S. cultural institutions in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

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