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McAfee Knob in Virginia, Mount Katahdin, Maine and the Grayson Highlands of Virginia are three of the multiple landmarks former Kernel editor-in-chief Will Wright encountered when he hiked the Appalachian Trail. On Feb. 20, 2020, Wright was named a New York Times fellow.

Kernel alum named a New York Times fellow

Hailey Peters February 20, 2020

A former Kernelite has been named a New York Times fellow. Will Wright, who served as the Kernel’s editor-in-chief in the 2015-16 school year will be joining the national staff at the Times this coming...

Kernel staffers Michael Reaves, Marjorie Kirk and Will Wright attended the convention in Washington D.C. where they received the award. 

Kernel awarded ‘Pulitzer Prize of college journalism’

Sara Nederhoed October 24, 2016

The Associated Collegiate Press has awarded The Kentucky Kernel with the Pacemaker, one of the most prestigious awards in the country for student newspapers. This is the third time the paper has received...

Adam Pennavaria, Beer Columnist

A Brew columnist’s goodbye, good to the last drop

Adam Pennavaria May 10, 2016

It appears that this columnist’s tour as the Kentucky Kernel beer writer has come to an end. It’s been a doozy, no question about that. But this has been an incredible year of learning about brewing...

Crystal Little enters the Forcht Bank on Southland Drive with an unloaded pistol hidden in the blue canvas bag. This was her first robbery.

The woman behind the mask

Will Wright April 25, 2016

At just before 10 a.m., a teller at the PNC Bank on Tates Creek Road looked up as a heavyset woman wearing a white surgical mask and mirrored sunglasses walked toward her.The woman didn’t look dangerous,...

Fire Alarms

UK’s false alarms rack up real costs

Will Wright March 29, 2016

Judging by the numbers, the sound of fire trucks should be as familiar to students as the sound of construction.A data analysis by the Kentucky Kernel showed that the Lexington Fire Department responded...

Marjorie Photo

Kirk selected as next Kernel editor

Cheyene Miller March 24, 2016

Almost three years ago, Marjorie Kirk walked into the Kentucky Kernel office as a freshman reporter, her leg broken and held together by a titanium rod. Now she is walking tall as the future editor-in-chief...

Professor Melody Noland said she is happy with her average of 11,000 steps a day.

Employees stepping up to UK’s Fitbit program

By Will [email protected] surgery may have forced education professor Melody Noland to quit running, but it could not stop her from finding other ways to exercise.Marathons were out of the picture,...

Will Wright, Editor in chief

The Fight for Food Stamps

Will Wright and Jamilyn Hall February 3, 2016

Editor-in-chief Will Wright and opinions editor Jamilyn Hall wrote opposing columns about reinstated food stamp initiative. The reinstated SNAP initiative would require people who receive food stamps to...

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