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Alumni Ambassadors for 2024-25 announced

By Joe Bandy

Sep 27, 2024

Twelve of the 32 students to serve as Alumni Ambassadors for the 2024-2025 academic year are Lewis Honors College students.

‘Behind the Blue’: 2024 Great Teachers spotlight — Eric Thomas Weber

By Kody Kiser and Steve Shaffer

Sep 23, 2024

This episode of “Behind the Blue” spotlights one of the six Great Teacher Award winners for 2024. Lewis Honors College Council member Eric Thomas Weber is an associate professor in the UK Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation in the College of Education. He specializes in the philosophy of education, ethics and public policy, political philosophy, and American philosophy.

UK Assistant Professor Lou Hirsch, Ph.D., accepting the Excellence in Teaching Award given by the American Phytopathological Society. Photo provided by Hirsch.

Lou Hirsch takes the classroom beyond the textbook

By Jordan Strickler

Sep 20, 2024

Lewis Honors College Council Member Lou Hirsch goes by the title “assistant professor,” but that doesn’t quite tell the full story. Hirsch is the kind of teacher who doesn’t just read lessons from a book; he teaches lessons for life. He’s not the type to seek out awards, but they seem to find him anyway.

Mack Thompson, a second-year master's student in the UK Department of Anthropology, is organizing first-ever Symposium on Dis/Ability & Debility in Appalachia, to be hosted at UK on Sept. 28. Carter Skaggs | UK Photo

Bridging disability and Appalachia: UK grad student organizes 1st-of-its-kind symposium

By Jenny Wells-Hosley

Sep 20, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 20, 2024) — When Mack Thompson first arrived at the University of Kentucky, adjusting to campus life presented unique challenges. Like many first-year students, he faced the usual hurdles of navigating a new environment. And as a person living with multiple disabilities — including Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and suspected ADHD and autism — those challenges were even more complex. His health and limited mobility often created barriers to connecting with fellow students and building a sense of community.

The six professors selected as Lewis Honors College’s inaugural Faculty Fellows are, from left, Marcelo Guzman, Abigail Firey, Elizabeth Williams, Liz Swanson, Devyn Spence Benson and Joe Martin

6 professors honored as Lewis Honors College inaugural Faculty Fellows

By Adrienne Clarke

Sep 19, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 19, 2024) — The University of Kentucky’s Lewis Honors College (LHC) has selected six professors for its inaugural class of Faculty Fellows. This program celebrates excellence in teaching and supports LHC students in the university’s degree-granting colleges through new opportunities in coursework, field trips and speakers.

Research Expo offers research connections for UK undergrads

By Jesi Jones-Bowman

Sep 6, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 6, 2024) — The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) will host the 4th biannual Research + Creative Experience Expo from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 9, at the Gatton Student Center Social Staircase.

UK junior earns Voyager Scholarship to support public service work

By Tom Musgrave

Aug 29, 2024

University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College junior Carlee O’Neal, of West Liberty, Kentucky, has been selected for an Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service.

UK student turns summer research project into poetry book

By Ryan Girves

Aug 23, 2024

Just because classes are out for the summer at the University of Kentucky, does not mean students have put a pause on their educational pursuits. This summer, while many were enjoying a well-deserved break, UK Lewis Honors College junior Beaux Hardin was hard at work, deeply immersed in research that could have a lasting impact on their field of study.

This year’s class of summer interns, photographed with James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits Director Seth DeBolt and Associate Director Ilka Balk.

Beam Institute welcomes 1st class of interns (including one LHC student)

By Grace Sowards

Jul 29, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 29, 2024) — The James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits at the University of Kentucky welcomes its first class of interns this summer. The group is a mix of students from different programs and majors at UK. Head Distiller Glenna Joyce-Welsko has been leading the students through production training and encouraging their research outside of the distillery.

Markey’s ACTION program expands its reach with latest student cohorts

By Elizabeth Chapin

Jul 24, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 24, 2024) — The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center’s Appalachian Career Training in ONcology (ACTION) has expanded its impact – this year including students from five previously unrepresented Appalachian counties. Nine students are part of the Lewis Honors College.

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