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Faculty Awards and Recognition Ceremony 2018

The College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Awards and Recognition Ceremony.

2017 A&S Hall of Fame

A&S celebrates the 2017 Hall of Fame! For more information and to watch the ceremony visit: 

https://alumni-friends.as.uky.edu/halloffame

 

English Awards Day Ceremony 2017

The English Department's 37th Annual Awards Day Ceremony, was held on Friday April 28th.

Faculty Awards and Recognition Ceremony 2017

Photos from the 2016 - 2017 Faculty Awards and Recognition Ceremony, April 25th 2017.

Roxane Gay Reading

As a part of the University of Kentucky's Visiting Writers Series, Roxane Gay visited campus on October 14, 2015. Roxane Gay’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin…

Hall of Fame 2015

On October 9, 2015, the College of Arts & Sciences celebrated the accomplishments of distinguished alumni and faculty by inducting five new members into the College of Arts & Sciences …

Young Writers Summer Colony

The Kentucky Young Writers Summer Colony held its inaugural program this June with great success. The week-long program, which was open to incoming high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and incoming college freshmen, welcomed an eager group who were interested in advancing their…

English Awards Ceremony 2015

On Friday, May 1, 2015, the Department of English at the University of Kentucky held their Thirty-Fourth Annual Awards Ceremony in the Lexmark Public Room in the Main Building. The keynote address, “That and a Quarter Will Buy You a Coke,” was delivered by Kip Cornett, UK English Department…

Distinguished Faculty & Teaching Awards

The College of Arts and Sciences honored distinguished faculty and teaching awards winners for the past year on April 22, in the WT Young Library Auditorium.

The recipients of this year's College faculty awards are…

Hall of Fame 2014

The College of Arts and Sciences inducted six new members into its Hall of Fame Oct. 10, 2014, with a ceremony at the Singletary Center for the Arts, bringing the current totals to 38 alumni and 13 emeritus faculty A&S Hall of Fame members.

2014 Alumni Inductees:

Jill McCorkle Reads at UK

The Department of English welcomed renowned author Jill McCorkle for a reading on Wednesday, September 10, 2014, at the Art Museum in the Singletary Center for the Arts on UK’s campus. She also was in Lexington as a featured guest of the Kentucky Women’s Writers Conference. McCorkle published…

The Sonia Sanchez Series 2014

The 36th annual Kentucky Women Writers Conference opened on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 at the Lyric Theatre, with The Sonia Sanchez Series featuring Asha Bandele, author of the best-selling memoir, The Prisoner’s Wife, a second memoir, Some Kind of Beautiful, a novel, Daughter, and several volumes…

Brave New Words 2014

The keynote event of this year’s Kentucky Women Writers Conference took place on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, at Memorial Hall.

Brave New Words: A poetry reading and conversation with Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry for Life on…

Meet Nathan Moore

The UK Junior was recently named a fellow for the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute in New York City, and as one of only 10 recipients to be bestowed that honor, it is helping to further define who Nathan Moore is and who he is quickly becoming as an academic. “Being accepted into…

Celebrating National Poetry Month

April 30, 2014 - Poetry was in the air once again this spring as students and faculty from the University of Kentucky participated in a 12-hour open air poetry reading. The event, organized by English professor and published author Julia Johnson, was held outside of the Student Center welcoming…

Center For Student Enrichment : Now Open

The English Department hosted a reception on January 23, 2014 to open its new Betty Combs Owen Student Enrichment Center. The Center was made possible through the generosity of Larry Owen, and named in honor of his late wife, Betty Combs Owen, who graduated from UK in 1957. The Center is an…

Go Teacher Fall 2013 Closing Ceremony

Our visitors from Ecuador and the Go Teacher program had a closing ceremony in the Fall semester of 2013 on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Read more about UK’s unique international partnership that brought the students to campus:

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