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VIDEO: New gallery opens in the College of Design

Olivia White, Broadcaster January 28, 2025

The College of Design introduced the “Life on Earth” gallery in the Gray Design Building on Jan. 24. The gallery depicts how architecture and design have affected the planet over the last 50 years....

A Starship delivery robot travels across campus on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Brady Saylor | Staff

UK Dining partners with Grubhub to provide more Flex opportunities

Savannah Garnett, Reporter February 20, 2023

Last August, UK announced that the online food ordering and delivery service Grubhub would be teaming up with UK Dining to allow Flex and Plus accounts to be used on the app for restaurants and fast food...

Jewell Hall at the University of Kentucky on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jack Weaver | Staff

Moving in the wrong direction: UK’s post-winter break move-in was unnecessarily stressful

Abbey Cutrer, Reporter January 8, 2023

A line of residents with full shopping carts snaked through the lobby of Jewell Hall on Sunday afternoon. The eight-floor residence hall was filled with families helping their students hurry to move into...

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The window

Gavin Colton December 5, 2019

I set the table while Mom faffed about the kitchen, mashing potatoes, carving turkey, and stirring the gravy, licking it off of the wooden spoon and muttering to herself, “more pepper.” I joined Dad...

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Eating alone

Gavin Colton November 22, 2019

Joe hung in the line to Bourbon & Toulouse for 15 minutes before making it to the register to order. He had just lost his job waiting tables at a restaurant downtown and fancied treating himself. His...

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First snow

Gavin Colton November 15, 2019

Ursula had been in the stacks looking through books about Ernest Hemingway for an essay when Irene texted her that the snow was really bucketing down and that she was on her way. They’d reduced themselves...

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Wedding day

Gavin Colton November 11, 2019

The night before the wedding, we ate at a deserted Mexican restaurant. I coached the groom’s parents through the menu of tamales and empanadas. Street food I informed them. After dinner the bride-to-be...

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Halloween got cancelled

Gavin Colton November 1, 2019

No one told Opal that Lexington had cancelled Halloween. He pulled out an old bed sheet, spread it smooth across the table and drew two circles with a black marker, feeling the distance between his eyes....

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Wash your bedsheets!

Gavin Colton October 10, 2019

It’s Sunday and you’re in bed. Kentucky lost again and there’s an Australian man marching by your dorm window, sign strung around his shoulders with shoelaces: “Will Kick for Money.”Beside your...

Do students really want luxury dorms?

Madison Rexroat September 12, 2017

UK is actually the University of Kenstruction as everywhere you turn there are new dorms, new facilities, new ~everything~ being built. But for all the millions of dollars spent on those new amenities...

‘Room Selection’ feature to improve UK housing application

McKenna Horsley June 4, 2016

UK Housing is making the move to college easier for students living on campus next year.Room Selection is a new step in UK’s housing application and allows students to pick a specific room in their assigned...

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