Check the Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) website for additional details about the conference: https://www.appalachianstudies.org/2025-conference

Join us for our SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) presentation at the Appalachian Center or tune in virtually via Zoom. This year's SWAPs will showcase the research conducted by recipients of the 2024 James S. Brown Graduate Student Award for Research on Appalachia and the UK Appalachian Center Eller & Billings Student Research Award, as well as other scholars and students sharing their research.

February 5 Presentation:

Maria Bareli, Liken Knowledge, Commons Governance Fellow, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network
Kathryn Newfont, University of Kentucky Department of History, Associate Professor

"A2A: Making Aegean Appalachian connections, building bridges of knowledge exchange and visions towards just futures"

Register for the Zoom link to join here

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Full schedule of SWAPs for the 2024-2025 academic year:

The Lewis Honors College, the Gatton College of Business and Economics, and the College of Arts & Sciences Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program are hosting Dr. Seth D. Kaplan, a leading expert on fragile states and a consultant to governments and NGOs worldwide. In his bestselling book, Fragile Neighborhoods, he offers a bold new vision for addressing social decline in America, one zip code at a time, by revitalizing our local institutions.

2025 Appalachian Research Day: come sit on the porch!

Registration is open for the 10th Annual Appalachian Research Day: Come Sit on the Porch

Hosted by the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health, Appalachian Research Day is an opportunity to learn about health research conducted with communities in Appalachia. The event will be held in person on April 16, 2025, at The Corbin Center in Corbin, Kentucky.

Highlights of this year’s conference include:

• Equitable and High-Quality Lung Cancer Screening in Kentucky, a podium presentation by Timothy Mullett, M.D., medical director of the UK Markey Cancer Center Network Operations and a UK professor of cardiothoracic surgery.
• A Community-Engaged Approach to Tobacco Regulatory Science in Appalachia, a panel presentation by researchers with the Appalachian Tobacco Regulatory Science Team (AppalTRuST).
• Disaster, Disease, and Determination: How an Appalachian Health Center Responded to the Needs of Its Community, a podium presentation by Key Douthitt, M.D., an associate professor at UK Department of Family and Community Medicine and medical director at the UK North Fork Valley Community Health Center.
• High school student presentations on numerous research projects during a shared session for Healthy WAY and CARAT-TOP, youth leadership and research development programs offered by the UK CERH for rural Kentucky high school students.
• Nine breakout sessions in the afternoon on a variety of topics, including stroke, Alzheimer's Disease, rural workforce, food insecurity, substance use disorder and disaster preparedness.
• More than 20 research posters on a variety of health topics.
• Health and research fair exhibits.

Winners of the poster session will be announced during the awards lunch. The nominees and winner of the annual Environmental Health Community Engagement Award, co-sponsored by the UK CERH and the UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences, will also be recognized.

Tour of UK Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER)

Please register ahead of time by November 13th: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6N8rgLH54P_g25LoDre_H-qPQ8AnOStq_rsLynIonPeQ8Jw/viewform?usp=sf_link 

Check out the GARC Symposium webpage for additional information!

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. - Zora Neale Hurston

The purpose of the Curiosity Fair is to celebrate the role of curiosity in education, by inviting participants to engage in interactive demos from a variety of disciplines, from science to art to humanities. The event is informal, fun, and free!

To see the list of curiosity stations participating in the 2024 Curiosity Fair, check out this link.

For more information, go here.