At the end of each fall semester, University of Kentucky School of Art and Visual Studies (SA/VS) celebrates its best and brightest young artists as part of the Carey Ellis Juried Student Show and awards ceremony presented at the school’s annual visual art celebration, Open Studio. While this fall looks different due to the pandemic, the school was still able to honor this year’s 18 winners with an online ceremony held Nov. 20.
With this April 2020 journal entry documenting the events of the COVID-19 pandemic, University of Kentucky political science sophomore Carli Salchli captured an important moment in the events that have unfolded since March 2020, a perspective that will be preserved for years to come in University of Kentucky Libraries’ “In This Together: Documenting COVID-19 in the Commonwealth” collection, now available online through the Special Collections Research Center’s (SCRC) ExploreUK digital repository.
The University of Kentucky Intercollegiate Debate Team recently wrapped up its first semester of the 2020-2021 debate season with an impressive finish at the Wake Forest Online Invitational.
The University of Kentucky's GradResearch Live! is proving that excitement for research has no bounds. This year, because of the restrictions of COVID-19, the 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition moved online. In the span of just a couple of weeks, the 24 research presentations by graduate students and postdocs garnered more than 9,500 total views on YouTube.
Throughout the extended winter break, University of Kentucky Campus Recreation and Wellness will be offering an expanded schedule of virtual fitness classes open to all University of Kentucky students, faculty and staff. Additionally, Campus Rec is giving away 250 free “Fit Kits” for students to use for these virtual fitness classes.
The 2020 recipient of the James Madison Award is the Kentucky Kernel, the independent student newspaper at the University of Kentucky. The James Madison Award is awarded by the Scripps Howard First Amendment Center in the School of Journalism and Media at the UK College of Communication and Information to annually recognize a Kentuckian who has made an outstanding contribution to the First Amendment.
Stephen Bates, a First Amendment and media law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of "An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Neibuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press," will deliver the 2020 State of the First Amendment Address Nov. 12. The title of the address is “The Press of Democracy.”
At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, the University of Kentucky School of Information Science in the College of Communication and Information will host John Hargrove and Roger Henley from the Bardstown Bourbon Company through Zoom to discuss how technology is being utilized in the bourbon industry.
The University of Kentucky Scripps Howard First Amendment Center is looking for a Kentuckian who is a champion of the First Amendment. The center, in the College of Communication and Information’s School of Journalism and Media, is accepting nominations to recognize those outside the journalism profession for their contributions to protect or expand First Amendment freedoms.
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