UK's Phi Kappa Phi Chapter Gains Momentum
"For a chapter which did not even exist six-and-a-half years ago, we're doing pretty well."
earth and environmental sciences
New Faculty: Rebecca Freeman
Some faculty featured in the New Faculty podcast series already have a history with the University of Kentucky. Nevertheless, we want to feature them and let our listeners get to know our faculty a bit better! This time, we interview Rebecca Freeman of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department.
This podcast was produced by David Cole.
Earth and Environmental Sciences Open House
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Slone Research Building
UK's Yeager Part of Team That Finds Missing Deepwater Horizon Oil
Since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, also referred to as the BP oil spill, occurred in 2010, scientists have been searching for millions of gallons of unaccounted oil — 11 to 30 percent of the oil estimated to have been spilled — in the Gulf of Mexico.
Rast-Holbrook Seminar
4:00-4:25 Dr. Adam Milewski, Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Georgia, "The Past, Present, and Future of Water Resources in the Middle East and North Africa Region"
4:30-4:55 Dr. Neda Zawahri, Associate Professor of Political Science, Cleveland State University, "Management of Transboundary Rivers in the Middle East"
5:00-5:25 Discussion moderated by Dr. Alan Fryar
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303 Sloane
Morocco, Maps, and Precipitation: The NSF Grant with Ben Currens
In the summer of 2014, several undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Arts and Sciences received a grant from the National Science Foundation. This NSF grant gave them the means to pursue research in various fields as they explored their interests and prepared for their potential futures.
Finding Faults: Inside Sean Bemis' Research
Sean Bemis put his hands together side by side to demonstrate two plates of the earth’s crust with a smooth boundary running between them. But that boundary is not always smooth and those plates do not always sit together neatly, which makes the earth’s crust a dynamic and complex surface.
