By Wesley Robinson Two students wanted to dedicate some of their time to the community, so they established a UK chapter of a national service organization with hopes of influencing legislation to improve citizen’s lives this semester. Co-founders Jeff Steller, a mathematical economics junior, and Mallory Brown, a nutrition and food science senior, began working [...]
Continue reading …To all readers of the Kentucky Kernel sports section: First, welcome to the new students on campus. We hope you will find that the Kernel is a valuable way to keep up with all of UK sports, both the immensely popular and the not-so-well-known club sports that inhabit this campus. Second, I’d like to welcome [...]
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Shannon Houser looked over to his attorney Edward Dove during the hearing for his upcoming trial. Photo by Britney McIntosh | Staff The man charged in connection with the hit-and-run that killed UK freshman Connie Blount returned to court Friday to receive a tentative trial date. Shannon Houser was arrested on charges of tampering with [...]
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Rupp Arena may no longer be the home to UK basketball games as early as 2014. Photo by Ed Matthews Story by Alex Risen The University of Kentucky plans to revamp three of its sports stadiums with $300 million to $400 million in private donations. The plan includes building a new basketball arena, new baseball [...]
Continue reading …By Sandy Martin Some knitters at UK don’t just stitch things for themselves — they also help victims of domestic violence learn how to knit. Serving Our Community by Knitting Stuff, a student organization that meets weekly on campus, goes to the Bluegrass Domestic Violence Shelter about once a month to work with the women [...]
Continue reading …UK Hoops hires former AAU coach Women’s basketball head coach Matthew Mitchell rounded out his coaching staff yesterday for the 2008-09 season with the hiring of Matt Insell, a former top Amateur Athletic Union coach and director of basketball operations at Louisiana Tech. Insell’s primary responsibilities will be recruiting and coaching the guards. “Matt has [...]
Continue reading …KY Basketball Museum moves to campus Kentucky Basketball Museum’s board of directors and UK have decided to relocate the museum to an on-campus location this fall in an attempt to resolve the museum’s financial debt. The museum, which was housed in the Lexington Convention Center next to Rupp Arena, has received a $100,000 annual contribution [...]
Continue reading …Gov. Steve Beshear appointed two UK alumni to positions on the UK Board of Trustees, replacing two members whose terms have expired. For Britt Brockman, a Louisville eye surgeon and alumnus of the UK College of Pharmacy, being a member of the board is “an honor he gets to experience a second time around.†“I [...]
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Demolition of the remaining buildings on the downtown block where CentrePointe is planned to be built began, last night.
Continue reading …Anyone walking into the Classroom Building last week saw walls plastered with flyers featuring a picture of Kentucky with a dollar sign and a question mark. Although posters advertising “A Conversation With Lee Todd†focused on the statewide budget deficit, about 50 members of the campus community had questions for the UK president at last [...]
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