Join us for our SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) presentations at the Appalachian Center or tune in virtually via Zoom. This year's SWAPs will showcase the research conducted by recipients of the 2026 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.

Link to register to join via Zoom will be available soon.

Dec. 1, 2026 SWAP Presentations:

Tania Rojas Carbajal, Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences: “Spatiotemporal Effects of Surface Coal Mining on Bird Occupancy in Appalachia.”

Abe Neis-Eldridge, Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, "Men and Metal: Guns, Masculinity, and Politics in the Volunteer State"

For the full schedule of SWAP presentations, go to this link.