June 9 at 5:30pm
The Power of Black Childhoods panel discussion featuring Dr. Kabria Baumgartner and Dr. Kyra Gaunt in conversation with Drs. Aria Halliday, Nikki Brown, and Kamahra Ewing will take place via Zoom.
You can register for the webinar here: https://tinyurl.com/5pjdfuf4
Fall semester classes begin on Aug. 23, 2021. View the full academic calendar for the fall semester here.
Note: Photo is courtesy of Katie Kelley of the Hazard Herald. Photo shows Gurney Norman with Mandi Fugate Sheffel.
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Gurney Norman received an unusual honor of late when a Kentucky town named an affordable-housing development after him.
By Carl Nathe and Kody Kiser
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 11, 2021) — Four decades ago, Northern Ireland native Jonathan Allison earned an exchange scholarship to pursue graduate study in the United States.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 29, 2021) — Luke Glaser was once a struggling math student. Academically, he often excelled. But learning polynomials, as well as quadratic equations and functions, just didn’t seem applicable to his life as a high school teenager.
“I hated math, and I took AP classes to simply not have to take math in college.”
Crystal Wilkinson will be inducted as Kentucky Poet Laureate as part of the Kentucky Writers’ Day celebration. The virtual ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on April 23 on the Kentucky Arts Council’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC27VV58Ob1Y6I95y5TsSkfg
Congrats to Prof. Crystal Wilkinson, and first year MFA in fiction, Chioma Ezeano, on winning the O. Henry Prize!
