Research Priorities - Diversity & Inclusion
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  • Feb 7 2022

The Guggenheim Foundation has selected Stephen Davis and William Mattingly as recipients of its Distinguished Scholar Award for their work with machine learning to reveal new insights about apartheid violence.

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  • Feb 1 2022

The best solutions begin by listening to the people whose problems you’re trying to solve. That community-based focus has been a guiding value of Nancy Schoenberg's 25 years at UK.

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  • Jan 24 2022

This week, the University of Kentucky Martin Luther King (MLK) Center is celebrating 35 years of providing community, a space for advocacy and culturally based education to UK.

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  • Jan 21 2022

The Kentucky Poet Laureate’s book of poetry, “Perfect Black" (University Press of Kentucky), is nominated in the category of “Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry.”

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  • Jan 10 2022

Created with $250,000 of seed funding from the university last fall, the institute will now receive annual funding of $200,000 through UK’s Office for Institutional Diversity — an important step forward in helping the institute achieve its goals.

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  • Dec 23 2021

Dana Canedy’s New York Times best-selling memoir “A Journal for Jordan,” has been adapted into a feature film. Canedy is a graduate of the UK School of Journalism and Media.

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  • Dec 14 2021

The CDA program is designed to help minority-owned, women-owned and other underrepresented construction-related businesses gain access to the tools, resources and opportunities to be competitive in the construction industry.

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  • Dec 8 2021

College of Social Work study showed Black survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) receive less workplace support than their White counterparts.

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  • Nov 1 2021

This new UKNow series, “Many People Creating One Accessible Community,” is a call to action. Over the coming weeks and months, we will highlight ways we can step up to ensure our campus is welcoming for all.