Several buildings on UK’s campus were illuminated with pink lights Monday night to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness month, UK president Eli Capilouto announced in a campus-wide email Monday.

“Together, as a campus family that sees blue every day, we will see pink,” Capilouto wrote. The locations that are lit with blue for UK’s special events — Memorial Hall, Haggin Hall, the Central residence halls and Woodland Glen I — were lit up, wrote UK spokeswoman Kathy Johnson in an email to the Kentucky Kernel.

The change occurred shortly after dark, Johnson wrote. Capilouto took the opportunity to call attention to the Markey Cancer Center’s Comprehensive Breast Care Center where, he wrote in the email, patients have better five-year survival rates for several types of cancer.

“Thank you for your continued commitment to our mission and vision and for the extraordinary level of excellence with which you do your work,” Capilouto wrote. “Together, and with scores of others, we will continue fighting for a cure.”

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