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Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

Nia Taylor, TeNiya Jones roommate, covers her face embraced during the candle lighting outside the Gatton Student Center on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, in Lexington, Kentucky. A vigil and candle lighting ceremony was held in honor of Jones, who was a UK student who died in a swimming accident while studying abroad in Israel this summer. Photo by Arden Barnes | Staff

‘Celebrating a life’: Vigil honors UK student who passed away while studying abroad

Sydney Momeyer September 27, 2018

Friends, loved ones and acquaintances gathered inside the student center Thursday to celebrate the life of Te'Niya Jones at a vigil hosted by the Black Student Union.Jones was a UK sophomore who passed...

DanceBlue raises over a million dollars for pediatric cancer.

DanceBlue raises $1.7 million after the 24-hour dance marathon concludes

Maddi Dyment February 26, 2017

As the hours wound down on the 2017 DanceBlue Marathon, the spirits in Memorial Coliseum only seemed to rise. Dancers appeared to catch their second (or twelfth) wind as they danced in-sync with the children...

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