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P.P. Karan led the department in the creation of the graduate program in 1968. Following a national search, Karan was named as chair in 1967. On August 12, 1967, the old Social Sciences Building which housed the department (on the site of the present Fine Arts Library) was gutted by fire, damaging or destroying most of the department's cartographic and meteorological equipment, wall maps, and ...
Patricia Kambesis (born November 7, 1952) [1] [2] is an American caver, cartographer and educator.. Kambesis is a professor at Western Kentucky University, instructing students the fields of geography and geographic information systems (GIS). [3]
Pages in category "University of Kentucky faculty" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 226 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1892, Miller joined the faculty at Kentucky State College—now known as the University of Kentucky—as a professor of geology and zoology. [4] That year, he also coached the football team in its inaugural season at the urging of the students, which came despite his limited knowledge of the sport. [5]
In 1945, the College of Arts and Sciences began recognizing individual faculty members with the Distinguished Professor Award, the first of which was awarded to Grant Knight of the English Department. 1947 also saw Paul G. Blazer and his wife Georgia launch the still-ongoing Blazer Lecture Series to showcase the talent of university faculty and ...
Willard Rouse Jillson (May 28, 1890 – October 4, 1975) was a Kentucky historian, academic, and geologist who authored numerous books on Kentucky politicians and geology matters pertaining to the State. Jillson taught geology in Lexington at the University of Kentucky in 1918 and later at Transylvania University in 1947.
The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, [9] the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other being Kentucky State University). It is the ...
The Main Building in the foreground and the Patterson Office Tower in the background.. The University of Kentucky is a public research university in Lexington, Kentucky.It was founded by John Bryan Bowman in 1865 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky (A&M), a publicly charted department of Kentucky University (now called Transylvania University), under the Morrill Land-Grant ...