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Recipients of the 2024 Ken Freedman Awards announced

By Neale Benjamin

Jun 28, 2024

Britt Frye is the recipient of this year's Outstanding Advising Administrator award. Frye serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Advising in the Lewis Honors College.

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Students launch UK’s 1st edition of undergraduate research journal

By Jesi Jones-Bowman

Jun 21, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 21, 2024) — Undergraduate students at the University of Kentucky who participate in research under the guidance of faculty mentors now have the opportunity to publish and broadly share the outcomes of their work and collaborative experiences. The inaugural edition of Aperture Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR) launched June 1, highlighting seven student-professor partnerships.

Women’s Forum announces new executive committee, board members

By Melissa McCaughan

Jun 13, 2024

The University of Kentucky Women’s Forum has announced its new executive committee and board members elected for the 2024-26 term which included Rebecca Anderson from the Lewis Honors College Center for Personal Development.

Community-building is at the heart of ‘Great Teacher’ Zada Komara’s classroom

By Jenny Wells-Hosley

Jun 13, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 13, 2024) — In March, the University of Kentucky Alumni Association honored six recipients with this year’s Great Teacher Awards. Launched in 1961, they are the longest-running UK awards recognizing accomplished and passionate educators.

3 UK students win scholarships to study critical languages abroad

By Emily Sallee

Jun 5, 2024

The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards announced three students have been selected as award winners of a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). Two of the three students are part of the Lewis Honors College.

2 UK undergraduate students named Beckman Scholars

By Jesi Jones-Bowman

May 24, 2024

Lewis Honors College student Elizabeth Elliott has been selected as one of two recipients of the University of Kentucky’s Beckman Scholars Program, titled Scholars United by Chemistry: Cultivating Excellence through Science Stewardship (SUCCESS).

'One Day for UK' raises more than $1.9 million with support from 3,000+ donors

By Dan Knapp

May 24, 2024

Thanks to all the supporters who helped the Lewis Honors College claim second on the “Small College and School Leaderboard” category.

(Top row left to right): Cooper Samuelson, Safiyah Sadek, Erica Smith. (Bottom row left to right): Katie Christensen, Luis Nunes. Photos provided by OUR.

5 students selected as 2024 Sustainability Summer Research Fellows

By Haven L. Patrick

May 23, 2024

Four of five students from the University of Kentucky who have been selected for the Sustainability Summer Research Fellowship program are members of the Lewis Honors College.

14 undergraduates have been selected for the 2024 Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Fellowship program. Photo provided by OUR.

9 of the 14 students awarded CURE Fellowships are Honors students

By Haven L. Patrick

May 21, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 21, 2024) — The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) is honored to announce that 14 students have been selected for the 2024 Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Fellowship program.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes 8 UK students, alums

By Lindsey Piercy

May 15, 2024

Two alumni, Lucas Bertucci, a 2023 chemical engineering and Lewis Honors College graduate from Louisville, who will pursue graduate study at Yale University and Ramy Ghanim, a 2022 chemistry, chemical engineering and Lewis Honors College graduate, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry at Georgia Tech, were awarded NSF fellowships.

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