As the familiar refrain of the University of Kentucky Fight Song reverberated through the UK Student Center Theater, Matthew Mitchell was caught by surprise. It was then that senior UK women’s basketball player Keyla Snowden approached the stage to present her coach with a Teachers Who Made A Difference award at the UK College of Education’s annual event. Mitchell was on hand to take part in the event on April 28 as the program’s 2012 spokesperson, but he had no idea he would be honored as well. More>>
The University of Kentucky chapter of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), based in the UK College of Education, collaborated with Sandersville Elementary School in Lexington to host a free Family Engineering Night on April 17 at the the school. Family Engineering Night is a program that brings students, parents and educators together to engage in problem solving and critical thinking with exciting hands-on activities. More>>
Faculty members from universities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia will at the University of Kentucky College of Education for the 15th Annual OSF Faculty Development Fellowship Program Spring Conference. More>>
Karen Tice, associate professor in the UK College of Education Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, recently authored her new book, “Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageantry, Student Bodies, and Campus Life,” published by Oxford University Press. More>>
UK College of Education faculty and students will be presenting at the 2012 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. More>>
In Kentucky, Jody Clasey has been fighting the war on obesity as director of the Pediatric Exercise Physiology Lab (PEP-Lab) housed in the UK College of Education. Through this work, her involvement with the Louisville Science Center (LSC) and her commitment to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, Clasey was honored as a 2011 Ambassador of Science Literacy by the LSC in January. More>>
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the School of Education at Virginia Tech and the College of Education at the University of Kentucky $1.3 million to implement and evaluate an inquiry-based after school program for middle school students in rural Appalachia. More>>
It started with a simple question, then grew into a large online survey with responses from more than 1,000 people from across the U.S. and abroad. A new book by Ellen Riggle and Sharon Rostosky, “A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being," explores what’s positive about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer identities. More>>
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