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Katherine Johnson
Category - Behind The Scenes
Pharmaceutical Coolers Recycling Program
SIP Interns: What are they up to? Sophomore Political Science and Public Policy major, Anamei Walli, UK Healthcare intern, has created a project reducing and recycling UK HealthCare Styrofoam waste. The project...
Julia Hill
The Food Connection publishes annual UK Dining report, showing strong local purchasing performance
The Food Connection, an applied food systems center in the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, has recently published the FY23 dining report. The report’s analysis...
2023-2024 SIP Cohort Introductions
Karen Capellan University of Kentucky Office of Sustainability Communications Intern Senior; Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Economics “Hello! I am excited about showing UK what sustainability can be...
Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling at Big Blue Move-In
Becoming a zero-waste campus is one of UK’s sustainability goals. Actually its one of our five guiding principles; Make the pursuit of these goals an integral part of the UK student experience Decarbonize campus...
‘Behind the Blue’: Building diversity and inclusion in UK Purchasing with Barry Swanson and Marilyn Clark
With over 60 employees, University of Kentucky’s Purchasing Division handles around $1.4 billion worth of transactions for the entire university community. Barry Swanson, UK’s chief procurement officer...
Chelsea Colley
UK EcoReps host events to educate campus community about sustainability
The University of Kentucky EcoRep program is an intern-led program established in 2017 as part of UK Recycling’s goals to increase recycling and waste diversion efforts on campus. This program’s...
Kathryn Tutwiler
Department of Product Design Creates Conference Table for UK Office of Sustainability
The third-year Product Design studio at the University of Kentucky was approached by the Office of Sustainability to create a custom circular conference table. The table was made from six different species of wood from...
BTS of the SIP: Rachel Henry, Intern with the Kentucky Climate Consortium
Behind the Scenes of the SIP is a new series on WholeSum featuring the 2022-2023 Sustainability Internship Program interns and highlighting the work they have accomplished over the past year. Continue reading to learn...
‘Greentalks’ on WRFL Features UK’s Recycling and Waste Reduction Specialist, Ryan Lark
On Monday, February 6th, Faith Roberts interviewed Ryan Lark on Greentalks, a WRFL segment supported by the UK Student Sustainability Council. In the interview, Ryan discussed his role with UK Recycling, UK’s new...
In Case You Missed It: Meet Jesse Okorafor, a doctoral student and an energy engineering intern at the University of Kentucky
In this article, I conduct an interview with doctorate student, Jesse Okorafor, who also plays an active role in sustainability on UK’s campus. I spoke with Jesse about his background in energy conservation, his...
UK Recycling continues food waste program at Univerisity Flats
After the success in past school years, University of Kentucky Recycling is continuing the residence hall food waste program at University Flats under the leadership of Recycling Program Support intern Shaun Lavin. In...
Meet the 2022-2023 Sustainability Internship Cohort
Since it’s conception in 2016, the Sustainability Internship Program (SIP) has given undergraduate students a unique way to partner with a variety of on-campus units to advance sustainability initiatives at...
Valerie Verty
Updating our Sustainability Strategic Plan: Integrated Feedback and Draft Finalization
In January, we kicked off our efforts to update the University’s Sustainability Strategic Plan, documented here in the first installment of SSP updates on WholeSum. We then conducted focus groups with student...
The Hidden Carbon in Our Buildings
When people discuss the best ways to make our buildings more sustainable, folks in the know will usually talk about energy and water efficiency, indoor air quality and maybe something a little more esoteric, like...
