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Adria Thompson, Speech Language Pathologists speaks about dementia awareness at TEDxUKY a student organized event, on Wednesday March 26, 2025, at The Gatton Student Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Sophia Isaacs | Staff

‘Our passions unite us all.’ TEDxUKY features speeches on interdisciplinary topics

Ariana Contreras, Reporter March 30, 2025

The University of Kentucky held TEDxUKY “Mosaic Minds,” an event focused on educating students and community members on a variety of topics presented by professors and field specialists. Fully organized...

Liza Colón-Zayas and Jeremy Allen White in The Bear (2022). Photo courtesy of Matt Dinerstein | FX Networks

The suffocation of a chaotic kitchen: ‘The Bear’ series

Quézia Arruda Cunha, Reporter December 5, 2022

Injured people in the same room. Yelling and fire. Tension and fear of the unknown. The new series released on Star+, “The Bear,” exhibits for me one of the most faithful representations of grieving. The...

Chris Girard, Emily Girard and Kim Girard during Emily’s 2019 high school graduation

Unprecedented times

Emily Girard December 31, 2020

Author’s Note: In March, when the COVID-19 pandemic was nearing its peak, I wrote an opinion piece reflecting on the pandemic in relation to my father’s battle with leukemia. Unfortunately, on August...

Letter from the editor: the road ahead

Natalie Parks May 8, 2020

The weekend before Kentucky’s first case of COVID-19, I spent all of Saturday in the Kernel office.I was working on a story that has now been swamped under the deluge of coronavirus news, but that at...

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