This episode of Behind the Blue spotlights one of the six Great Teacher Award winners for 2025: Patrick Lee Lucas, a professor of Interior Design in the UK College of Design.
Robin Cooper, professor in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is one of this year’s distinguished Great Teacher Award recipients.
UK was recently recognized by the U.S. Navy Reserve as one of a select group of civilian employers honored during the Navy Employer Recognition Event 2026.
Rachel Hogg-Graham, Dr.P.H., associate professor and health management and policy chair in the College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky, has been honored as a 2026-27 University Research Professor.
Ashley W. Seifert, a professor in the Department of Biology at the UK College of Arts and Sciences, has been honored as a 2026-27 University Research Professor.
Six UK researchers have been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s historic Genesis Mission, leading and supporting projects that use artificial intelligence to advance power-grid resilience, semiconductor design and scientific discovery.
James Donovan, the Dorothy Salmon Professor at the J. David Rosenberg College of Law at UK, has been honored as a 2026-27 University Research Professor.
Thirteen UK faculty members in the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment are the 2026 recipients of The Bill Gatton Foundation Professorships.
