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The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

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The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

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Kentucky sees impacts from bird flu

Kentucky sees impacts from bird flu

Sylvia Freire, Reporter February 9, 2025

Bird flu, known as ‘avian influenza’, a virus that began by primarily infecting birds, has started infecting humans throughout the United States, according to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention...

A campus squirrel clings onto a tree after being spooked by a student walking on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, near Patterson Office Tower in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Carter Skaggs | Staff

Who runs the world? Squirrels

Gracie Moore, Reporter February 20, 2023

It’s time we talk about the chaos of the campus squirrels.  Western Kentucky University may have white squirrels, but our squirrels seem to act on every intrusive thought that goes through their...

A campus squirrel sits on a tree branch on Monday, April 6, 2020, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jordan Prather | Staff file photo

Going nuts: UK’s Squirrel Watching Club is a place for all animal lovers

Olivia Walton, Reporter November 7, 2022

Fall is in the air at the University of Kentucky. The students know it, the leaves show it and the squirrels love it. The recent increase in squirrel activity has been great news for the Squirrel Watching...

Local horse farm owner challenges UK to donate, save animal victims of hurricane

Rick Childress August 31, 2017

A local horse farm owner is challenging UK students to donate to an Ohio feed mill that is sending animal supplies to hurricane-stricken Houston.Smokey Lynne Bare, a co-owner of the Sue Say Farm in Lexington,...

Service dogs improve the lives of all

Hunter Mitchell February 9, 2017

In the fall of 2015, after an extensive training process with the UK student-run organization Wildcat Service Dogs, I was selected to train a service puppy which would one day become a fully-functioning...

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