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UK Gaines Center to host Lafayette Seminar on Public Issues

The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities invites the public to the 2025 Lafayette Seminar in Public Issues, featuring Lexington Vice Mayor Dan Wu as moderator.

Gaines Center selects newest cohort of Gaines Fellows

Twelve students will join the two-year program that enriches the undergraduate experience by fostering an interdisciplinary approach to the humanities.

Advancing collaborative, community-engaged research focus of UNITE showcase

The 2025 UNITE Research Showcase will celebrate innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration and impactful research among faculty, students and community stakeholders.

Anastasia Todd to deliver inaugural Gaines Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities

The Gaines Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities spotlights groundbreaking work related to the Gaines Center’s annual theme, which for 2024-2025 is Health and the Humanities. 

Call for submissions: UK’s open-access, interdisciplinary undergraduate research journal

The UK Office of Undergraduate Research is accepting submissions for the 2024-25 issue of Aperture, an open-access, interdisciplinary student journal. The submission deadline is Feb. 15.

Bridging past and future: UK’s Brent Seales to lead national AI-humanities initiative at Schmidt Sciences

Brent Seales, a computer science professor at UK, has been selected to lead a new national program that supports research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the humanities. 

UK School of Information Science researcher awarded over $400,000 for library trustee project

Shannon Crawford Barniskis received the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Early Career Research Development grant for “The Trustee Project,” which aims to learn about the experiences of public library trustees.

UK Libraries celebrates opening of the American Archive of Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva

The archive comprises hundreds of scholarly and rare books on the Tsvetaev family, countless research materials related to the sisters’ work and literary legacies, as well as more than a dozen personal items belonging to Anastasia Tsvetaeva.

2025 Bingham Seminar to explore impact of design on global economy in Appalachia and France

Professor Rebekah Radtke will lead next year’s Mary C. Bingham Seminar titled “Sustainable Futures Design Lab: Appalachia x France.”

Gaines Center taking new fellowship applicants for 2025

The prestigious program provides undergraduate fellows with unique research opportunities, specialized seminars and academic and professional development opportunities. 

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