University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center recently organized, inventoried and made available the records of the Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass. The project was funded through the Southern Jewish Historical Society’s Scott and Donna Langston Archival Grant, which encourages the preservation of archival materials related to Southern Jewish history.
The Department of Integrated Strategic Communication in the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information will present its third annual Irwin Warren Lecture in Advertising and Digital Media from 3:30-5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, in the James F. Hardymon Theatre of the Davis Marksbury Building.
Organizers of the University of Kentucky’s Constitution Day activities last week have announced the winners of the essay contest associated with the national holiday.
The University of Kentucky Speech and Debate Team started the new season on a strong note by finishing in seventh place at the Fall Fiesta Tournament hosted by Western Kentucky University. This tournament is the season opener for many of the top nationally ranked teams including the University of Alabama, Illinois State University, William Carey University and the hosts and reigning national champions, Western Kentucky University.
A distinguished alumna of the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media, the woman who led the effort to create the University’s Scripps Howard First Amendment Center and the first recipient of the James Madison Award for Service to the First Amendment by a Kentuckian will deliver the 12th annual State of the First Amendment Address.
Adriane Grumbein, assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Strategic Communication within the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information, was presented the 2017 Early Career Teaching Excellence Award at the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC) annual conference. This year’s conference was held in Chicago in August.
University of Kentucky Libraries has been working hard to expand several services designed to help students study more efficiently and affordably. Students and faculty may now reserve study rooms online, retrieve reproductions of articles electronically, arrange to pick up books and media directly from the circulation hold desk, and access hundreds of free online textbooks.
A journalist whose reporting on the deaths of children abused or murdered while under the supervision of a state agency is the 2017 recipient of the James Madison Award for Service to the First Amendment.
The University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media, within the College of Communication and Information, will welcome home one of its outstanding alumni when Dana Canedy, recently named the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, returns to campus Wednesday, Sept. 27.
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