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Guess What? GIS is a Beneficial Tool for All

 

GIS (Geographic Information Services) is empowering new ways faculty can teach in their classrooms and the way students interact and learn. Nowhere is that more evident than in the Department of Geography. Jeremy Crampton and his class surveyed part of UK’s campus with a camera, 2-liter soda bottle, a balloon, rubber bands and string. Find out more about how a do-it-yourself project like this makes it easy to be an active participant in data collection.

Matt Wilson’s students are also putting GIS to use by working with community members and organizations. Ranging from health and cultural advocacy, food systems, open data, environmental issues, historical preservation – the students collaborate with people and places in the community to provide a needs assessment that GIS technologies can offer, whether it is web-based mapping tools, information that can help with grants, or just general GIS analysis. Listen to this podcast to find out more.


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Second Annual Research Conference on Children at Risk

On March 26, the Second Annual Research Conference on Children at Risk will be held in the Alumni Hall Ballroom.  From 10:00A.M.-12:00P.M., we are having graduate student poster presentations. From 12:30-2, Mr. Bill Farmer, President of United Way of the Bluegrass, will speak. At 3:30-5, Dr. Jaana Juvonen, expert on bullying from UCLA, will give the keynote address in Kastle Hall 213. The interdisciplinary conference is open to everyone and is free of charge.

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Alumni Hall Ballroom

English Graduate Student Organization Conference

On Friday March 30th, the English Graduate Student Organization Conference will be a great opportunity for graduate students to present their papers. It is an all day event hosted at the Commonwealth and Bingham-Davis houses of the Gaines Center. For more information please contact Julie Naviaux.

 

 

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Gaines Center, Commonwealth & Bingham-David House

Narcissism Under Threat: Anger, Envy, and Aggression

WHAT: Psychology Department Colloquium - "Narcissism Under Threat: Anger, Envy, and Aggression"
WHO: Dr. Zlatan Krizan, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University
WHEN: Friday, March 2nd, 2:00P.M.
WHERE: Classroom Building Room 102

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Classroom Building Room 102

Spinal Cord Injury: Molecular Responses Conserved from Lamprey to Human

 

WHAT: “Spinal Cord Injury: Molecular Responses Conserved from Lamprey to Human.”
WHO: Ona Bloom, Ph.D., Assistant Investigator, Center for Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Disease at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at The Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
WHERE: Room 116 THM

WHEN: Thursday March 22, 4:00p.m.

Host: Jeremiah Smith

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Location:
116 Thomas Hung Morgan Building
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