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Intern Insights: Henry Walke with UK Recycling

Intern Insights is a mini-series that spotlights the interns participating in the Sustainability Internship Program (SIP) and their day-to-day activities and accomplishments. The Office of Sustainability partners with the Student Sustainability...

Henry Walke

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Intern Insights: Georgia McNamara with UK HealthCare

Georgia McNamara

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Embracing sustainability at UK HealthCare: A commitment to a healthier future

At UK HealthCare, we believe that a commitment to health extends beyond the exceptional patient care we provide; it encompasses our environment and the communities we serve. As a leading healthcare system, we recognize our responsibility to promote...

Kristy McMillan

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Fabricating Play: The Big Blue Bench Comes to Cornerstone

The Big Blue Bench (figure 1) is a furniture piece and public art installation that serves as a prototype to demonstrate the reuse of plastic waste as building material (figure 2). The product is one result of a...

Katherine Johnson

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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...

Katherine Johnson

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Nature Rx Installation at Markey Cancer Center

Members of the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment’s Built Environment Faculty Working Group and UK HealthCare Sustainability Steering Committee’s Healthcare Greenspaces Taskforce have worked...

Katherine Johnson

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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...

Katherine Johnson

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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...

Katherine Johnson

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‘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

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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

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Academics Behind The Scenes

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...

Pooya Mohaghegh

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Intern Insights: Rachel Henry 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...

Rachel Henry

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‘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...

Chelsea Colley

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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...

Chelsea Colley

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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...

Chelsea Colley

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Intern Insights: Henry Walke with UK Recycling

Intern Insights: Georgia McNamara with UK HealthCare

Embracing sustainability at UK HealthCare: A commitment to a healthier future

Category - Behind The Scenes

Fabricating Play: The Big Blue Bench Comes to Cornerstone

The Food Connection publishes annual UK Dining report, showing strong local purchasing performance

Nature Rx Installation at Markey Cancer Center

2023-2024 SIP Cohort Introductions

Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling at Big Blue Move-In

‘Behind the Blue’: Building diversity and inclusion in UK Purchasing with Barry Swanson and Marilyn Clark

UK EcoReps host events to educate campus community about sustainability

Department of Product Design Creates Conference Table for UK Office of Sustainability

Intern Insights: Rachel Henry with the Kentucky Climate Consortium

‘Greentalks’ on WRFL Features UK’s Recycling and Waste Reduction Specialist, Ryan Lark

In Case You Missed It: Meet Jesse Okorafor, a doctoral student and an energy engineering intern at the University of Kentucky

UK Recycling continues food waste program at Univerisity Flats

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