We are also very pleased to announce Dr. Karl Raitz has been named the Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor. This award is highly competitive and is selected from nominations submitted by the Deans of UK's colleges. Recipients are honored for their consistently high level of achievement in their contributions to their disciplines and the university. The appointment is for three years, and brings a research fund for each of the three years.
On February 18th and 19th the University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group held the first annual “Dimensions of Political Ecology: Conference on Nature Society Research.” The conference was organized by a group of graduate students in geography, anthropology, and sociology. Conference participation was interdisciplinary and international with over 125 participants serving as presenters, discussants, and field guides. Given the success of the event a follow up in 2012 is imminent. See the UKPEWG website for more details about the working group and the conference.
Professor Daehyun Kim has won the Association of American Geographers J. Warren Nystrom Award for 2012.
Driving was one of the most chaotic experiences in China. In this video we are driving to the Waterfall Temple, where we will play Mahjong, an ancient Chinese game played with cards or tiles. Mahjong is a game of skill, strategy, and a certain degree of chance. A&S Hive member Yiwen Chen and her friends taught us how to play the game of Mahjong in a cave which is behind a waterfall.
Filmed and Edited by: Dana Rogers
