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In 2017, Associate Dean Deirdre Scaggs, Ben Chandler and Bess and Tyler Abell were on hand to celebrate Clements Award Winners Steven K. Riley, Whitney Walker and Amy Michele Madsen. LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 14, 2021)  — The National Archives and the University of Kentucky Libraries Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center are now taking self-nominations for the Earle C. Clements Innovation in Education Award for Civics and History Teachers (Clements Award). The submission deadline is May 14. The Clements Award recognizes promising and innovative Kentucky educators and honors the life ...

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 undergradua...

of 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 CO...

of LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 15, 2021) — Join University of Kentucky Libraries’King Library Press this spring for the 2021 “Pandemic Printing” Virtual Lecture Series. Featuring prominent printers from around the country, over the next three months this series will give audiences multiple chances to hear from book artists as they share their experiences printing during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Last April, Kadin Henningsen, who I met in 2019 at Rare Book School, emailed me to ask for my address as he was getting ready to start printing ‘a series of pandemic postcards,’” UK Librarie...

Saturday, October 19 Check-In: 8 a.m., Race Start: 8:30 a.m., Begins on Central Quad The Panhellenic Association, National Pan-Hellenic Council, and Interfraternity Council are working to support the transition from the current Oxford Pantry to the Talawanda Oxford Pantry and Social Services (TOPSS), which includes a new building. Come get your Family Weekend run on and support a great local cause. The race route begins on Central Quad, goes around campus, and ends at the Farmers Market in the Oxford Uptown Parks. Registration information. Recreation Center Open Recreation Center Get your wo...