Geoscience & Environmental Justice in Appalachia Series: Dr. Eva Lyon
All presentations will be presented in a hybrid format. Join us at the UK Gatton Student Center Room 331 or click the link below to register to join via Zoom.
https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e0yZr5uHR3SfKL8AHX2Tyg
Geoscience & Environmental Justice in Appalachia Series: Nate Siggers
All presentations will be presented in a hybrid format. Join us at the UK Gatton Student Center Room 331 or click the link below to register to join via Zoom.
https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TQhbstUCTOOgvVM03lBeew
All presentations will be presented in a hybrid format. Join us at the UK Gatton Student Center Room 331 or click the link below to register to join via Zoom.
https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TQhbstUCTOOgvVM03lBeew
Geoscience and Environmental Justice in Appalachia Series: Dr. Ann Harris
"Reading Jewish Stories in an Age of Climate Change: Grappling with Risk, Reimagining Hope"
Please register for this event! It's free! You can register at https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bR33A2dnRD6B4Yf4D9Zb6Q
This is the first lecture in the mini-series sponsored by World Religions on "Religion and the Environment".
Julia Watts Belser is an associate professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University and core faculty in Georgetown's Disability Studies Program, as well as a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center. She is the author of Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2018). She has held faculty fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She currently directs an initiative on disability and climate change, which brings together disability activists, artists, policy makers, and academics to address how disability communities are disproportionately affected by environmental risk and climate disruption.
Geology Graduate Student Receives Grant for Studying Grand Canyon Cave
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Sierra Heimel has an award-winning passion for hanging out in low places: caves.
Building a Better Society: Our Environmental Future
The second installment of the A&S Virtual Speaker Series will continue the theme of how the liberal arts, through seemingly disparate fields, address major issues of today.
Join A&S geologist Mike McGlue, political scientist Jillienne Haglund, and author Erik Reece in conversation with Interim Dean Christian Brady as they discuss the science, economics, policy, and activism of environmental change, restoration, and sustainability.
The A&S Virtual Speaker Series will spend this academic year exploring the importance of a liberal arts education as we dive into topics surrounding the overall theme of “Building a Better Society.”
Space is limited, please register here to attend.
1st Research + Creative Experience Expo Coming to UK
By Jesi Jones-Bowman
UK undergraduate researchers Bridget Bolt and Gretchen Ruschman. Students are encouraged to explore undergraduate research opportunities at the Research + Creative Experience Expo.
At the University of Kentucky, undergraduates have access to outstanding research and creative work activities led by world-class faculty and staff that promote self-discovery, experiential learning and lifelong achievement.
UK-led Study Reveals Dramatic Impact of Climate Change in the Sierra Nevada
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 8, 2021) — In California, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly obvious. Turn on the news and you will hear about extreme heat waves, droughts and frequent wildfires plaguing the state.