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Compiled by ITHAKA S+R, this two-year study summarizes the findings from 26 research teams, synthesizing over 300 interviews with faculty and instructors who teach with primary sources across several disciplines.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 23, 2021) The University of Kentucky Graduate Student Congress is now accepting submissions for the Graduate/Professional Student Virtual Pop-Up Museum: Celebrating Diversity at the University of Kentucky. Created with support from UK Libraries, this project will challenge existing narratives to provide a more complete understanding of the UK graduate student experience by documenting how the personal and cultural identities of currently enrolled part-time and full-time graduate and professional students have impacted their time at the university.
“This project documents the lives and lived experiences of UK graduate and professional students and represents an important contribution to the historical record,” earth and environmental sciences doctoral candidate Edward Lo said.
Interns in the Special Collections Research Center Learning Lab get to work with rare collections related to areas of interest in their own studies.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 9, 2021) As the end of the spring semester draws near, University of Kentucky Libraries would like to remind undergraduate students about two special opportunities available annually through the libraries to help showcase and enhance their research, including the Learning Lab Internship and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Scholarship. At the University of Kentucky, we want to provide every undergraduate student the opportunity to engage in meaningful and impactful research and scholarship opportunities, Dean of UK Libraries Doug Way said. In the Libraries we support undergraduate researchers and scholars through our faculty, collections and services. We also recognize students’ scholarly accomplishments through the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Scholarship, and we provid
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 2, 2021) On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order that established the Peace Corps as a volunteer agency in the U.S Department of State. Sixty years later, as the agency celebrates its diamond anniversary, University of Kentucky Libraries’Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History is continuing its work with local and national partners to preserve many of the stories and experiences of the more than 241,000 Americans who have served in the Peace Corps.
From stories of volunteers evacuated from their host countries at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to accounts from some of the first groups to volunteer with the agency, the Nunn Center has helped the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) collect and preserve a wide array of interviews with former volunteers from 1993 to the present.