Join us on January 16th at 6PM in the Gatton Student Center Cinema for a showing of "Winter's Bone," a dark story following the unfortunate life of teenager Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence), as she trieds to save her home.
Robert Gipe, author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed novels Trampoline and Weedeater, joined the Appalachian Center's scholar-in-residence, Gurney Norman for a visit and reading. Since 1997, Robert has served as the Director of the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. Through his fiction and work with the community-theater project, Higher Ground in Harlan, Kentucky, Robert has tackled tough issues in the mountains including drug abuse, environmental degradation, mining, outmigration, and discrimination.
Convo w Gurney Robert Gipe from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
Irma Gall, co-founder of the Lend-A-Hand Center, will be on campus to share her new experiences working on Stinking Creek for the past 60 years. Located in Walker, Kentucky, the Center has served the Stinking Creek community through health, education, agricultural, and children's programs since 1958. Irma is a farmer and school teacher who is involved in Appalachian service work and active in the war on poverty. We welcomed Irma to campus on Monday, November 26th from 5-6:30PM at the Niles Gallery in the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library for her presentation, and enjoyed a full day spent learning about her life's work and passion!
60 Years on Stinking Creek: The Story of the Lend-A-Hand Center from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
The Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment welcomes undergraduate and graduate student research posters relating to environmental and sustainability issues to be presented at the 8th annual susatinability Forum on December 6, 2018 from 4:30-7:00 at the Hilary J. Boone Center. Monetary awards will be presented to the top student poster/presentations. Space is limited.
Deadline for abstract submissions is November 19, 2018.
Please complete the attached form and email to tfise@uky.edu.
The Rural & Underserved Health Research Center will be hosting a Symposium on November 11th from 9-11 in the Student Center. More information about the RUHRC click here! To save your spot, click here to register for the symposium BEFORE November 5th!
Julie N. Zimmerman, UK Community and Leadership and Development, and Tony Love, UK Sociology, present Spatial Inequality Meets Data Inequality Rural Data Reliability and the American Community Survey on Friday, November 2, 2018 at noon in 701 Garrigus Building. For more information visit the CLD Unexpected Speaker Series website.
