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UK 2024 Homecoming royalty crowned

By Hayden Gooding

Oct 12, 2024

Lewis Honors College student Ethan Morgan was crowned UK Homecoming 2024 king on Saturday, Oct. 12, during the UK vs. Vanderbilt football game halftime ceremonies. Honors seniors, Maddie Duff, Sarisha Lohano, Olivia Thornsbury, and Luke Karem were also honored as finalists in the homecoming court.

Lewis Honors College faculty fellow, Marcelo Guzman

NSF grant propels UK chemist’s research on air pollution

By Lindsay Travis

Oct 10, 2024

Marcelo Guzman, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, a Lewis Honors College faculty fellow and lead chemist in the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, is the principal investigator of the nearly $571,000 grant.

Donations for Citations is back with some friendly competition

By Lisa S. Cleveland

Oct 9, 2024

Maddie Duff, Lewis Honors College senior and president of UK’s Student Government Association, suggested a friendly contest between the University of Tennessee to see which school can gather the most donations to support their respective food pantries during the Donations for Citations program to be held from October 14-31. Excess donations will be shared with Take a Tampon, an organization founded by Lewis Honors College alumna Kotomi Yokokura '24 to ensure that all students have access to free and high-quality menstrual products.

Lewis Honors College student, Sara Dickens

University of Kentucky Alumni Association hosts 33rd annual Lyman T. Johnson Awards Luncheon

By Meredith Weber

Oct 9, 2024

Lewis Honors college student, Sara Dickens, received the Torch Bearer award for academic excellence and impact on others as part of the 33rd annual Lyman T. Johnson Awards.

Asa O’Neal spent his summer interning at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, helping develop cryogenic CO2 scrubber technologies for human spaceflight. He got to see the inner workings of NASA, including Mission Control.

UK senior and Astronaut Scholar revels in ‘most impactful award’ he’s ever received

By Tom Musgrave

Oct 2, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 2, 2024) — Asa O’Neal, a University of Kentucky senior mechanical engineering and physics major, was named to the 2024 Astronaut Scholars class by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF). The West Liberty, Kentucky, native is one of 71 Astronaut Scholars and was recently honored at the ASF Innovators Symposium and Gala in Houston, Texas.

From UK Beam Institute student to Jim Beam engineer

By Grace Sowards

Sep 30, 2024

CLERMONT, Ky. (Sept. 30, 2024) — Alex Mayes was born and raised in Central Kentucky, so bourbon culture is no secret to him. That is exactly what inspired him to get involved at the University of Kentucky James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits (JBBI) at its earliest stages.

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.

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