A&S Certificate Recipients 2012-2013
The College of Arts & Sciences is pleased to announce that the recipients of the 2012-13 A&S Outstanding Teaching Awards are Drs. Christia Brown (psychology), Brenna Byrd (MCLLC), Yanira Paz (Hispanic Studies), and Bradley Plaster (physics & astronomy).
UK to Host 65th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
CLA 135: Greek and Roman Mythology with Tedd Higgs
CLA 261: Masterpieces of Greek and Roman Literature with Ted Higgs
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
One of the scholarly highlights of campus life is around the corner: the 65th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-21.Take advantage of the speakers and panels, and exhibitions and energy, that the conference brings to campus. http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/ for a full list http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/mobile/schedule.html on a portable device.
Ten UK Scholars Awarded Gaines Fellowships
Classics Graduate Student Awarded Fellowship to Study in Athens, Greece
Japanese Bluegrass Sound Comes to Kentucky
Ghost Stories and Humorous Anecdotes Told By Professional Kentucky Servants
WHAT: Ghost Stories adn Humorous Anecdotes Told by Professional Kentucky Servants (Doctors, lawyers, School Teachers, Sheriffs)
WHO: Lynwood Montell
WHEN: Tuesday, March 27, 2:00p.m. - 3:30p.m.
WHERE: Student Center Room 230
Open to the public, refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
About the Lynwood Montell:
Professor Montell appears courtesy of the Kentucky Humanities Council.
William Lynwood Montell taught at Western Kentucky University from 1969 to 1999. He is the author of 27 books, including Saga of Coe Ridge, Ghosts Along the Cumberlands, Don't Go Up Kettle Creek, and Singing the Glory Down. He no longer teaches university classes, but continues writing books and doing lectures and storytelling presentations. For many years he has been featured as one of the statewide speakers sponsored by the Kentucky Humanities Council. Since his retirement he has published Ghosts Across Kentucky (2000), Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky (2001), Tales From Kentucky Lawyers (2003); Tales From Tennessee Lawyers (2005); Reminisces and Reflections: African American in the Kentucky-Tennessee Upper Cumberland Since the Civil War (with Wali Kharif, 2005); Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland (2006); Tales from Kentucky Doctors (2008); Civil War in the Kentucky-Tennessee Upper Cumberland (2008) and Tales from Kentucky Funeral Directors (2008).
In the summer of 2001, Professor Montell was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame, located in Renfro Valley, Kentucky, and in March 2003, he received the Governor's Arts Award in the folk Heritage category, an award based on the books he has written that focus on local life and culture. In his words, 'As I tell people, I could care less writing about kings, queens, and presidents, I write about local culture, life, and times as described by persons whom I interview during the research/writing process.'