In the fall semester of 2024, students in UK’s second-year Product Design course, PRD 220, were tasked with designing and building a new battery charging station using materials from Campus Woods, a program that repurposes felled campus trees into...
Ella Sides
Jennifer Allen
Category - Academics
Applications Open for 2025-2026 Sustainability Internship Program
Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 Sustainability Internship Program (SIP). The SIP pairs students with sustainability-related offices and units from across the campus to advance sustainability initiatives in...
Carlie Laughlin
Hunter Stamps
Kirsten Turner2024-2025 Student Sustainability Council
The Student Sustainability Council (SSC) was formed to supervise the distribution of the Environmental Stewardship Fee in order to responsibly advance the theory, practice and reality of Sustainability at the University...
Katherine Johnson
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...
John Francis the “Planet Walker”
The Office of Sustainability is excited to partner with Humanity in Deep Space, to host Dr. John Francis on UK’s campus for this upcoming community conversation. Download the flyer In 1971, John witnessed an oil...
Great Teachers 2023: Kenton Sena helps Lewis Honors students cultivate a curiosity for learning
Kenton Sena, Ph.D., a lecturer in the University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College, is one of this year’s Great Teacher Award recipients. He joined the UK faculty in 2018 and teaches courses on forest restoration...
Chelsea Colley
Historic $100 million gift will catapult UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Continuing a “legacy like no other,” late University of Kentucky alum and former trustee Carol Martin “Bill” Gatton bestowed a transformational gift of $100 million to the UK College of Agriculture, Food and...
5 students selected as Sustainability Summer Research Fellows
Five University of Kentucky students have been selected for the Sustainability Summer Research Fellowship program, a high-impact learning experience that contributes to the students’ academic growth as well as...
Department of Product Design creates conference table for UK 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...
MacArthur Fellow Robin Kimmerer to present on ‘Indigenous Wisdom and Scientific Knowledge’
The University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College and the Student Sustainability Council will present a campus keynote from Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Gathering Moss” and “Braiding Sweetgrass,” and 2022 MacArthur...
UK hosts environmental lawyer Robert Bilott for water and public health talk
On March 24, the University of Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute (KWRRI), in conjunction with the UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES), UK Superfund Research Center...
Student Success at Home and Abroad with UK NRT
A quick scan of news headlines over the past year and anyone can see how the intersection of our food, energy, and water systems is having major impacts across Kentucky, the nation, and the world. Interestingly, one UK...
Bluegrass Greensource to host third annual Sustainability Summit at the University of Kentucky
Join Bluegrass Greensource March 7-8th for their third annual Sustainability Summit, held at the Gatton Student Center. This 2-day event will feature a variety of speakers, focusing on the topic of Climate Resiliency...
UK Recycling’s Partnership with WestRock Expands Accepted Recyclables on Campus
At the start of 2020, the University of Kentucky (UK) embarked on an exciting new partnership with WestRock, a materials recycling center and paperboard manufacturing company. Since then, all of the items you place in...
Do you want a sustainability certification?
Are you passionate about sustainability? Do you want to work in a field that reflects your values and supports your vision for a more sustainable future? If you answered yes, you aren’t alone! Working in the...
