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The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

The Red Shoe Crew helps support the Ronald McDonald House.

Red Shoe Crew helps keep smiles on faces at Ronald McDonald House

Emily Baehner December 7, 2018

For many, Ronald McDonald is mainly associated with Happy Meals and Big Macs. But for the Red Shoe Crew of Lexington and the patients at the Ronald McDonald House of the Bluegrass, he means so much more....

Kentucky football player CJ Conrad accompanied by Scratch and two Kentucky cheerleaders, Josh Marsh and Riley Aguiar, visited Kentucky Childrens Hospital to celebrate homecoming week with the patients on Tuesday Oct. 16, 2018 in Lexington, Ky. Photo by Jordan Prather | Staff

Conrad spends his Tuesday free time at Children’s Hospital

October 16, 2018

For college athletes, there is always one day a week where the busy schedule of class, practice, treatments, meetings, etcetera can be overwhelming.Tuesday is that day for the Kentucky football team. It’s...

Chi Omega sisters rehearse their “Decades” Greek Sing routine on Wednesday night. The women will donate proceeds from ticket sales at Greek Sing to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Greek Sing raised nearly $200,000 last year and granted wishes for 32 children.

Greek philanthropy is helping to make a lasting impact on young lives

Matt Hasty March 21, 2018

There is a stereotype among non-Greek affiliated people that people in fraternities and sororities just exist to party and get in trouble.How do I know this? Because I used to be one of these people until...

circle of love

Spreading love this holiday season

Amanda Bryant November 27, 2016

The UK Center for Community Outreach is working to provide underprivileged children of Fayette County Christmas again with the Circle of Love through Beyond the Blue Program. Circle of Love is an annual...

Special Education freshman Ashley Fisher, left, has blood drawn from a Blood Center nurse while Pre-Nursing freshman Lucy Jayes relaxes after hers was taken.

Kentucky wins Big Blue Crush blood drive

Morgan Haas November 21, 2016

Kentucky beat Tennessee in this year’s Big Blue Crush blood drive.The Big Blue Crush blood drive is an annual competition hosted by the Kentucky Blood Center between Kentucky and Tennessee to see who...

Newly selected sorority women race down Rose Street Sunday after hearing which awaiting house on Greek Row would become their new home-away-from-home. Photo by Josh Mott | Staff

Participate for a strong Greek community

September 21, 2016

Coming to a big university from a rural high school, I wanted to make the huge campus seem a bit smaller. What better way to do just that than talking to multiple young women at fourteen different Greek...

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