In 24 hours, UK received $1,068,758 from 3,262 gifts, including 450 gifts from first-time donors and nearly 600 gifts from faculty and staff — according to Sarah Fitzgerald, associate director of annual giving.
Graduating biology senior Ben Farmer has been awarded Reef Environmental Education Foundation's Dr. Jamie L. King Marine Conservation Internship in Key Largo, Florida.
Engineering seniors Cary Brown and Kyra Seevers have been selected to receive Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) from the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD).
Brandon Jamal Colbert, Jay Winkler, Noor Ali and Sofia Gonzalez Schuler will speak at the four Commencement Ceremonies taking place this Friday, May 3, and Sunday, May 5.
Sena's piece "Potential Barrier to American Chestnut Restoration" discusses his research on Phytophthora cinnamomi, an introduced soilborne pathogen that causes diseases in many species around the world, and its effect on the American chestnut.
Seven interns from the UK Special Collections Research Center Learning Lab will represent the university at the second World Conference of Undergraduate Research May 23-25, in Oldenburg, Germany.
Lee X. Blonder, UK professor in the Department of Behavioral Science and the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, has been re-elected by university faculty to serve a three-year term as a faculty representative to the UK Board of Trustees.
