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UK Theatre Interactive Project Highlights Experience of Oppression for Participants

Apr 28, 2021, 7:50 AM

The Tunnel of Oppression is an interactive event that highlights contemporary issues of oppression. It is designed to introduce participants to the concepts of oppression, privilege and power.

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Dean Julian Vasquez Heilig to Lead Free Implicit Bias Virtual Symposium

Apr 28, 2021, 7:47 AM

The Community Action Council for Lexington-Fayette, Bourbon, Harrison and Nicholas counties is hosting the event to offer tools to confront, reduce and eliminate this hidden bias.

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UK to Host Solidarity Event in Support of Asian American, Pacific Islander Communities

Apr 27, 2021, 7:57 AM

On Wednesday, April 28, partners from the Office for Student Success, Office for Institutional Diversity, International Student and Scholar Services and Student Government Association will host a two-part event focused on solidarity with the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community from 2 to 5 p.m.

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UNITE connects UK Research and Community Leaders to Address Racial Equity

Apr 23, 2021, 8:34 AM

University of Kentucky administrators, faculty, staff and students engaged with a diverse panel of community leaders to identify research priorities to address racial equity across the Commonwealth.

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Graduate Student Congress, UK Libraries Partnership to Celebrate Diversity, Document Graduate Student Experience

Apr 23, 2021, 8:25 AM

Students are invited to share their stories through oral histories, audio recordings, written stories, diary entries, photographs, videos, art and other artifacts.

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Research Scholars Program Created to Sustain Inclusive Research Success

Apr 19, 2021, 9:01 AM

The Research Scholars Program is aligned with national priorities for research diversity, with the goal of creating cultures of inclusive excellence.

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A Public Health Approach to Anti-racism

Apr 14, 2021, 9:44 AM

Racism has long defined health and well-being in our state and the country. Recent events have exacerbated a complex ecosystem framing health inequities nationally. UK College of Public Health organized a yearlong program of events with the goal of promoting an anti-racist environment in our academic community.

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Chef, Activist, Alum Dan Wu to Give Talk on Impact of Systemic Racism on Asians, Asian Americans

Apr 13, 2021, 8:16 AM

Wu’s talk, “Yellow Peril to Model Minority: How Systemic Racism & White Supremacy has Kept Asians Quiet & Controlled in America,” will take place Wednesday April 14th in Room 121 in the Jacobs Science Building and via Zoom.

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Nursing Students, Black Soil Partner to Address Food Insecurity, Maternal Health in Communities of Color

Apr 9, 2021, 11:28 AM

Through a collaboration with local agritourism company Black Soil, a group of students from the UK College of Nursing have taken up the mantle to deliver health education to Lexington’s communities of color. 

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UK College of Education Faculty Published in the ACTA Scientific Medical Sciences Journal

Apr 9, 2021, 8:45 AM

The publication from Dr. Jessica Chao and Dr. Keith B. Wilson discusses how the COIVD-19 pandemic created additional barriers for people with disabilities already experiencing disparities in medical care.

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