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Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

The William T. Young Library on Monday, April 4, 2022, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Travis Fannon | Staff

William T. Young Library turns 25

Jack Kolesar, Reporter April 7, 2023

William T. Young Library, affectionately known as “Willy T.” by the campus community, celebrated its 25th birthday on Monday, April 3.  The building has been a center of both social and academic...

Dr. Jennifer Greer will assume her role as the new dean of UKs College of Communications and Information in August of 2019.

UK Communications college will need millions to jump start process for new building

Rick Childress September 26, 2019

A highly anticipated new College of Communications building is no longer on track, the college's dean said Wednesday, locking faculty, staff and students into less-than-ideal temporary spaces for the foreseeable...

A construction worker takes a break in what used to be the Kernel newsroom in the basement of the Grehan Journalism Building on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The building is under construction and is expected to be completed in December 2019. Photo by Bailey Vandiver | Staff 

A look inside the under-construction Grehan Journalism Building

Bailey Vandiver June 25, 2019

On the second floor of the Grehan Journalism Building, Gurney Norman stood in what used to be the yearbook office— including in 1959, when he was editor of The Kentuckian. In the basement, I stood in...

Current Ohio State employee chosen as UK College of Engineering’s new dean

Kernel News Staff April 30, 2018

After nearly two years without a dean, the College of Engineering will be filling the position soon. Rudolph G. Buchheit, who currently serves as the associate dean for academic affairs and administration...

Senior Electrical Engineering majors Cole Richardson and Sarah Cusick are already taking advantage of the new James and Gay Hardymon Center for Student Success located in Anderson Tower on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Kentucky on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Kaitlyn Gumm | Staff

New Center for Student Success is ‘one-stop-shop’ for engineering students

Bailey Vandiver September 20, 2017

A $3.5 million donation to the College of Engineering funded the James and Gay Hardymon Center for Student Success.Alumnus James F. Hardymon donated the money for the renovation of the third floor of F....

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