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The University of Kentucky is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the desegregation of its campus. In our latest edition of Saving Stories, Dr. Doug Boyd with the UK Libraries Nunn Center for Oral History shares audio from a series of interviews with Lyman T. Johnson; the first African-American student to set foot on the UK campus. Johnson successfully challenged a state law that prohibited students of different races to be educated together in the same classroom. The university had been getting around the 'Day Law' by sending professors to the Kentucky State University campus in Frankfort to instruct African-American students. That all changed with Johnson in 1949.

Continuing a “legacy like no other,” late University of Kentucky alum and former trustee Carol Martin “Bill” Gatton bestowed a transformational gift of $100 million to the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment through The Bill Gatton Foundation.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the University of Kentucky a prestigious center grant to share its expertise and lead national efforts to build diverse academic research environments. This will be accomplished by the oversight of the new Support of Research Excellence (SuRE) R16 grant program designed to foster research capacity building at colleges and universities that serve underrepresented students. Dr. Greg talks with program co-director Brett Spear.

The University of Kentucky is holding its 2021 Commencement this weekend in-person at Rupp Arena and via live stream. As WUKY’s Arlo Barnette reports, one…

This week we talk with UK Associate CIO Heath Price about eSports, the new facility, and competitive gaming on campus. Learn more about the UK eSports…

A new research initiative at the University of Kentucky officially launches this week. The Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies will seek to…

The University of Kentucky is predicting a $70 million dollar budget shortfall for the next year, and there will be some layoffs.In an email, President…

The University of Kentucky is tightening its travel restrictions as cases of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 continue to spread across the globe.…

When it comes to the state’s new higher education funding system, the head of the state's Council on Postsecondary Education says the University of…

A University of Kentucky student is among this year's Rhodes scholars. The 32 recipients of the prestigious scholarship announced Sunday includes Hadeel…