What began as a small dye garden at the University of Kentucky Arboretum has grown into a hands-on summer internship and cross-listed course that immerses students in the sustainable production and use of natural dyes. The project was sparked...
Adreonna Rainey
Ella Sides
Jennifer AllenCategory - Academics
Campus Woods gives UK trees new life
The University of Kentucky is home to over twelve thousand trees, representing a variety of the 120 tree species native to our state, such as walnuts, yellow-poplar, bur oaks, hickory, and ash trees. When a tree is...
Carlie Laughlin
Hunter StampsSustainability in Focus: Leadership Perspectives from the Office for Student Success
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...
Kirsten Turner
Katherine Johnson
Join the Sustainability Internship Program at UK 2024-2025
If you’re keen on playing an active role in the UK’s sustainability initiatives, look no further than the Sustainability Internship Program! This program provides students with invaluable tools, experiences...
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...
