The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

Kentucky cheerleaders entertain the crowd during a timeout during the game against Georgia on Sunday, December 31, 2017 in Lexington, Kentucky. Kentucky won 66 to 61. Photo by Olivia Beach | Staff

Lexington Center, Rupp Arena enters new naming rights deal

Rick Childress January 16, 2020

Rupp Arena—the home of UK's men's basketball team—will have a slight name change. The facility, which is currently undergoing a major, nearly $275 million renovation, will now be known as Rupp Arena...

Fans receive the last of the Big Blue Madness tickets in front of Memorial Coliseum on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017, in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Chandler Stevenson 

Renovation of Memorial Coliseum, other campus buildings move forward

Rick Childress February 22, 2019

Renovations to Memorial Coliseum are inching closer to reality. The UK Board of Trustees moved to begin the design phase for renovating the almost 70-year-old Coliseum and approved a flurry of other construction...

Memorial Hall building mug

UK launches $2.1 billion fundraising campaign to fund scholarships, research, Coliseum renovations

Rick Childress September 14, 2018

UK officials announced Friday that the university is launching a $2.1 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign—the largest in the history of the state—in an effort to grow scholarship and research...

UK journalism student Maris Halpern works on her laptop in her Media Storytelling class in the basement of the Enoch Grehan Journalism Building on April 4, 2018. 

Goodbye, Grehan: Journalism, communications moving out of longtime home for renovations

Sydney Momeyer April 9, 2018

-Home is where the heart is, especially for the College of Communication and Information.Beginning August 2018, the Enoch Grehan Journalism Building will close for a full renovation. The building has been...

Load More Stories

Comments (0)

All Kentucky Kernel Picks Reader Picks Sort: Newest