EES Breaks Ground With Pioneer Gift
UK's Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences (EES), in partnership with UK alumnus Tom Spalding (’80, ’82), accepted a $600,000 gift from Pioneer Natural Resources Company.
New Major in Environmental and Sustainable Studies: David Atwood
Professor David Atwood discusses the process of developing a new program of study: Environmental and Sustainable Studies.
Ned Stuckey-French to give lecture "Baldwin, Didion, Digitization, and the Future"
THE AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
PRESENTS
NED STUCKEY-FRENCH
"BALDWIN, DIDION, DIGITIZATION, AND THE FUTURE"
Thursday, October 6, 2011
4 pm
Niles Gallery
Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Co-Sponsored by Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program
Ned Stuckey-French teaches at Florida State University and is book review editor of Fourth Genre. He is the author of The American Essay in the American Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011), co-editor (with Carl Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: Four Centuries of Commentary (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming 2012), and coauthor (with Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French) of Writing Fic-tion: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Longman, 8th edition). His articles and essays have appeared in journals and magazines such as In These Times, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Walking Magazine, culturefront, Pinch, Guernica, middlebrow, and American Literature, and have been listed three times among the notable essays of the year in Best American Essays.
Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
The Mythology of the Doudou: Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture and Nation in the French Caribbean.
Lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Jacqueline Couti, an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kentucky, will discuss how the development of "doudou," a Creole term in the French Caribbean, was adopted by 19th century European scholars to rewrite national identity in the then French colony of Martinique. Martinique is now a department, which is an administrative district of France.
Date:
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Location:
New Student Center, Room 249
Kentucky Geological Survey Mapping Symposium
On Thursday December 1, 2011 the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences will host the Kentucky Geological Survey Mapping Symposium in Room 102 of the Mines and Mineral Resources Building from 4:00P.M. - 5:00P.M.
Date:
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Location:
Room 102, Mines & Mineral Resources Building
EES Seminar - Graduate Students
Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar Series: Graduate Students.
Location & time TBA.
Date:
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Location:
TBA
EES Seminar - Dr Lewis Owen
On Thursday November 10, 2011 Dr. Lewis Owen of the Department of Geology of the University of Cincinnati will lead the seminar Himalayan Glaciations and Tectonics. The seminar will take place in Room 102 of the Mines & Mineral Resources Building. Refresments will be served at 3:30P.M and the seminar will begin at 4:00P.M.
Date:
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Location:
Room 102, Mines & Mineral Resources Building
EES Seminar - Dr Peter Gleick
On Thursday November 3, 2011 Dr. Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute will lead a seminar entitled New Thinking for Water in the 21st Century. The seminar will take place in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Center. The seminar begins at 6:30 P.M.
Date:
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Location:
Student Center Grand Ballroom
EES Seminar - Dr Kevin Waller, Pioneer Natural Resources Company
On Thursday October 20, 2011 Dr. Kevin Waller of Pioneer Natural Resources Company will lead a seminar entitled Oil and Gas Geophysics Overview. The seminar will take place in the Lexmark Room (209) of the Main Building from 4:00P.M. - 5:00P.M. Refreshments to be served at 3:30P.M.
Date:
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Location:
Lexmark Room (209), Main Building
EES Seminar - Dr Nikki Wagner
On Thursday October 6, 2011 Dr. Nikki Wagner of the University of Witwatersrand's School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering will lead a seminar entitled Like Kentucky, South Africa is Dependent on Coal, or More So. Location TBA, the seminar will take place from 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 P.M. before the seminar.
Date:
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Location:
TBA