Alumni Stories
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Q&A with Trevor McNary, Class of 2016 Majored in Economics and International Studies |
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Q&A with Lauren Miller, Class of 2006 Majored in Psychology |
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Q&A with Will Seidelman, Class of 2009 Majored in Psychology with a Philosophy minor |
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A Culture of Success: Chemistry Alum Tanea Reed Concussions and brain injury have become topics of social concern in response to controversies involving sports – namely the National Football League. But Tanea Reed has been researching therapeutic interventions in traumatic brain injury since long before concussions became matters of public concern. |
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Joe Sutliff Sanders - Kids' Stuff Joe Sutliff Sanders is a professor at Kansas State University specializing in children’s literature. But according to Sanders, he found his way into children’s literature – and eventually into a job at one of the field’s leading programs – by accident. |
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Curiously Inclined “Last summer I was in Budapest briefly locked in a gypsy’s apartment while she tried to extort more money from me, and had a great time…” said Joe Nickell, as if he were describing a weekend at the lake. He is a man with many interests – over 200 “personas” are listed on his personal website including folksinger, stage magician, and séance conductor. |
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Negating the Negative Patience is a virtue. Just ask Ginny Carney. An alum of the English Department, Carney is now President of Leech Lake Tribal College in Minnesota. But she didn’t get there overnight. |
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Kyle Longley When Kyle Longley applied to doctoral programs in history, he narrowed the choice down to two schools: the University of Kentucky and one other. But a visit to Lexington and Billy’s Bar-B-Q, where he had lunch with George Herring, the professor who would become his mentor, made UK the place to go. |
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Steven Grambow The son of a naval architect/marine engineer, Steven C. Grambow credits his father for putting him on the path to hard sciences. |
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Will Sanders For philosophy alum Will Sanders, attending the University of Kentucky was always part of the plan. The Frankfort native’s parents both attended the university and it was natural for him to follow in their steps. Choosing a major was the challenge. |
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Shannon Hincker When Shannon Hincker started her undergraduate work at the University of Kentucky in 2004, she was a mathematics major. |
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Susan Tomasky Topical studies alum Susan Tomasky was drawn to the University of Kentucky because of its honors program but she also became deeply rooted in the College of Arts & Sciences political science department. |
