The Kernel Media Board of Directors has named Giana Gallo and Reaghan Chen as the next Kentucky Kernel and KRNL editors-in-chief. Gallo, a junior broadcast journalism and communication double major,...

The staff of the Kentucky Kernel, the University of Kentucky’s independent student news outlet, won a total of 48 awards, including the General Excellence Award, during the Kentucky Press Association...

In the early hours of Sunday morning after leaving The Hill, a University of Kentucky student was walking behind the S. Limestone Chipotle to head home when five men jumped him, according to a police report.  A...

The College Media Association and Associated Collegiate Press hosted its annual National College Media Convention in New Orleans this fall, uniting student journalists, advisers and world renowned journalists.   Kernel...

Out of all the stories I’ve ever written for the Kernel, this has been the most challenging. It’s not hard to thank everyone who’s helped me along the way and given me more memories than I’ll...

There’s an image of myself from my freshman year of college that’s remained plastered to the folds of my brain since. In it, I sit with my parents on the bed in my newly-decorated dorm room as we...

The Kernel Media Board of Directors has appointed Abbey Cutrer and Laurel Swanz as the next editors-in-chief of the Kentucky Kernel and KRNL Lifestyle + Fashion for the 2024-2025 school year. Cutrer,...

Let’s be honest — as necessary as they are, paywalls can be a nuisance. And on a college student’s budget, shelling out the money for multiple newspaper and magazine subscriptions isn’t always...

For the last 20-some odd years, we've grown up with the evolution of technology in our back pockets. It’s something we’ve carried with us from the launch of the very first iPhone all the way to the...

If you asked me freshman year if I would ever be editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Kernel, I would’ve laughed in your face with it quickly followed by “I could never do that.” Well, three years...

I wish I could go back in time and get a coffee with my younger self. Specifically, a coffee at the William T. Young Library Starbucks on Feb. 4, 2021, with sophomore year Rayleigh. That was the...

This is the Kentucky Kernel's annual photo magazine, highlighting the Kernel's best photos from the 2022-2023 school year.