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Students Rally Behind Operation Secret Santa with Holiday Food Drive

By Adrienne Clarke

Nov 14, 2025

During the Ideas that Matter series, our third guest speakers were Operation Secret Santa (OSS) nonprofit founder Katie Keys (also known as “Head Elf”) and Honors alumna Lucy Jett Waterbury, who shared OSS’s inspiring origin story and its growing impact. Through its mission “Creating Christmas without barriers,” OSS served over 2,000 families, including over 6,000 children, last year.

‘It’s a special outdoor classroom’: UK Robinson Forest Field Day demonstrates flash flooding modules for local youth

By Christopher Carney

Nov 20, 2025

CLAYHOLE, Ky. (Nov. 20, 2025) — More than 60 middle school and high school students from Breathitt and Letcher counties were invited to learn about the factors influencing flash flooding at Robinson Forest, a 14,800-acre forest in the Cumberland Plateau and home to some of the least disturbed watersheds in Eastern Kentucky.

2025 Oswald Research and Creativity Competition winners announced, 12 from Lewis Honors College!

By Haven L. Patrick

Nov 19, 2025

The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) recently announced the 21 undergraduate winners of the 61st annual Oswald Research and Creativity Awards. Chad Risko, Ph.D., faculty director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, and Research Ambassadors, presented the awards.

Campus donors will receive additional perks for helping secure a Big Blue victory against Tennessee Tech.

Big Blue Crush blood drive begins Monday at UK

By Eric Lindsey

Nov 14, 2025

Giving blood to Kentucky Blood Center (KBC) saves local lives throughout the year, but Kentucky fans who donate during Big Blue Crush have extra incentive: a chance to beat rival Tennessee.

UK students and faculty gather in Norway to prepare their payload for NASA’s GHOST mission. From left: Alexander Barrera, Eric Adams, Carson Brown, Cannon Shields, Savio Poovathingal and Alexandre Martin.

Kentucky dream takes flight: UK joins NASA on Arctic space mission, including a Lewis Honors College alumnus

By Jenny Wells-Hosley

Nov 13, 2025

A team of students and faculty from the University of Kentucky Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering will make history in Norway, launching a UK-developed payload as part of NASA’s GHOST spaceflight mission.

A resident at Thomson-Hood Veterans Center reads a card sent by Singletary Scholars. The scholars made cards and goody bags for the veterans at the center.

Singletary Scholars honor veterans through acts of servant leadership

By Adrienne Clarke

Nov 11, 2025

To encourage servant leadership, Tony Colella, instructor and director of admissions and recruitment for the University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College, dedicated class time for first- and second-year Singletary Scholars students to write thank-you notes and assemble 75 goody bags for residents of Thomson-Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky.

Gaines Center now accepting fellowship applications

By Ryan Girves

Nov 6, 2025

The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities is now accepting applications for the 2026-28 cohort of Gaines Fellows, one of the university’s most prestigious undergraduate opportunities for academic enrichment, leadership and community engagement.

Patagonia’s chief storyteller comes to campus Nov. 6

By Ainsley Saurers

Nov 4, 2025

This week, the University of Kentucky will host Vincent Stanley, Patagonia’s director of philosophy and resident fellow at the Yale Center for Business and Environment, 12:30-1:45 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in the Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall.

Members of UK's Center for Computational Sciences

University of Kentucky Hosts Regional Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Research and Education

Oct 30, 2025

The University of Kentucky’s Center for Computational Sciences (CCS), with support from the NSF ACCESS Support project (NSF grant OAC- #2138286), hosted a two-day Regional AI Workshop on October 7–8 at the Gatton Student Center that included a panel of HON 151 Living with Generative AI students who described their experiences with AI in the classroom.

Front row, from left, Katie Neglia, Katelyn Straw and Nikhil Kumar. Back row, from left, Seth Thompson, Rosbelly Rios and Odianosen Ewah.

OUR, UK Sustainability announce winners (two from Lewis Honors College) of research poster competition

By Jesi Jones-Bowman

Oct 30, 2025

The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research and UK Sustainability are honored to announce the six winners of the fifth annual sustainability research poster competition.

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