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Resiliently Rooted Art Showcase and Competition

Throughout your life, how many times have you relaxed, walked, or laid under a tree? Probably, and hopefully, a great number of times! Trees are instrumental to the health of planet Earth and the health of human beings. They purify the air by...

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Advancing Kentucky Together: UK horticulturist Alexis Sheffield

The production of synthetic dyes comes at a great environmental cost, accountable for nearly 20% of global industrial water pollution. The Sustainable Color for Kentucky’s Future project aims to replace synthetic coloring for clothing and textiles...

Ella Sides

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Sustainability in Focus: Leadership Perspectives from Nancy Cox

Sustainability in Focus: Leadership Perspectives is a new mini-series that spotlights the remarkable faculty and staff leaders driving sustainability across our campus and showcases their innovative perspectives. These dedicated individuals are...

Katherine Johnson

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In Case You Missed It: Moving Out & Making a Difference

On every university campus throughout US, when students leave campus for holiday or summer breaks, a lot of waste is produced. While packing and getting ready to leave, waste comes from many places: cleaning out...

Esther Moberly

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Meet Jada Walker Griggs, the New Sustainability Program Manager for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government

In this article, I conduct an interview with LFUCG’s new Sustainability Program Manager, Jada Walker Griggs. I spoke with Jada about her background in city government, her future goals, and her involvement with...

Chelsea Colley

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Celebrate UK Bike Week April 18-22

University of Kentucky Bike Week is back, set for Monday, April 18, through Friday, April 22. Cyclists can take part in five days of bike-related activities on and off campus, with a chance to win prizes. Students who...

Chelsea Colley

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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...

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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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Academics Community Research

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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Community Sustainability Tips

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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Resiliently Rooted Art Showcase and Competition

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

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