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Zero Waste, Infinite Creativity at Inaugural Kentucky Climate Symposium

On September 26, 2024, the Kentucky Climate Consortium made history by welcoming nearly 300 academic professionals, organizers, and community members to the Harris Ballroom in the Gatton Student Center at the University of Kentucky to discuss a...

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Sustainability Showcase Awards

The annual Sustainability Showcase was presented by the Office of Sustainability, The President’s Sustainability Advisory Committee, the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, and the Office of Undergraduate Research...

Katherine Johnson

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Expanding the canopy: UK invites communities to celebrate Tree Week 2024

Tree Week, hosted by the Urban Forest Initiative (UFI), returns this year with an expanded reach across the state. This year’s events will occur throughout October, engaging communities across Kentucky to celebrate trees and the environment for kids...

Katherine Johnson

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Participate in an Earth Month Event Around Lexington!

Each year, the community of Lexington and the University of Kentucky recognize April as Earth Month, a month dedicated to promoting sustainability and participating in sustainable initiatives around the community. With...

Chelsea Colley

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Re-Visioning Huntertown: From African American Freetown to Interpretive Public Place

Authored by Jayoung Koo, Daniel Vivian, Ryan Hargrove, Christopher Sass, Chad Eby, Sioux Finney, Lori Garkovich, Faye T. Kuosman, and T. Adam Probst. Landscapes dedicated to significant persons of color and historical...

Jayoung Koo

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UK to Help Landowners Replace Bradford Pear Trees

Bradford pear trees are popular landscape trees, commonly planted in yards throughout Kentucky. A distant cousin of culinary pears, Bradford is a flowering pear, one cultivar of the Callery pear...

Chelsea Colley

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Updating Our Sustainability Goals

Our commitment to sustainability requires leadership, creativity, and the ability to be nimble as challenges and opportunities evolve. Our vision for sustainability at UK includes valuing environmental stewardship and...

Shane Tedder

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Learn About ‘The Elements of Life’ at Everything is Science

Aspects of science and research touch our lives every day, but all too often as adults we forget the sense of wonder and interest that we may have had in science when we were children. Everything is Science...

Chelsea Colley

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UK NRT, UK CAER Host Food, Energy, & Water Symposium Featuring Jonathan Webb of AppHarvest

Last December 9th, UK’s chapter of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Traineeship (NRT) alongside the Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER) hosted the first annual Food, Energy and Water...

Kevin Puckett

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UK Students Help Revitalize Historical Community

University of Kentucky landscape architecture students are using their design expertise to revitalize a historic property in Woodford County. Huntertown is an African American hamlet which once stood on 50-acres outside...

Chelsea Colley

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5th Annual Winter Bike to Campus Day is Wednesday, Feb. 9

Cold weather is no excuse to give up on cycling to campus, whether you dig winter vibes or shiver all season. Each year, The University of Kentucky Transportation Services recognizes cyclists who brave the winter...

Chelsea Colley

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TreeWeek: Reforest the Bluegrass Program

On Thursday, October 14, a team of UK and community volunteers met at Masterson Station Park to remove invasive species from a patch of forest. This forested site is not your typical forest, though—nested within the...

Kenton Sena

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CSA Voucher Program Includes 11 Farms and Opportunity to Win Free Shares

For the seventh consecutive year, employees with University of Kentucky health insurance are eligible to claim free Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) vouchers. These vouchers can be used to receive...

Chelsea Colley

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Are You Ready to Sack Hunger?

The holidays are right around the corner! Regardless of what food is going to be on your table this year, the fact remains that there are plenty of people in our communities who suffer from food insecurity. That’s why...

Kate Heidari

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Activism Behind The Scenes Community

Solar Energy, Students, and Sustainability

A HUGE SHOUT OUT to the scores of student advocates who have been encouraging the University to take a leadership position on climate and transition to renewables for most of the past two decades. Last week’s...

Shane Tedder

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