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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 ...
Kentucky also has two early entrance to college programs, for academically gifted high school juniors and seniors, that allows the students to take college credits while finishing high school. They are the Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics , and the Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science .
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).
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is the liberal arts and sciences unit of the University of Kentucky, located in Lexington, Kentucky.It is primarily divided [clarification needed] between the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and offers more than thirty degree options for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Pages in category "Colleges of the University of Kentucky" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2002 the Osher Foundation began making program development grants of $100,000 a year for up to three years to launch new OLLI programs. The initial focus was on California, which now has OLLI programs at seven University of California and 16 California State University campuses. In 2004 Osher established a National Resource Center (NRC) at ...
KCTCS was founded as part of the Postsecondary Improvement Act of 1997 (House Bill 1), signed by former Kentucky Governor Paul E. Patton, to create a new institution to replace the University of Kentucky's Community College System and the Kentucky Department of Education's network of technical schools. The Kentucky Fire Commission, a separate ...
The geology of Kentucky formed beginning more than one billion years ago, in the Proterozoic eon of the Precambrian.The oldest igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rock is part of the Grenville Province, a small continent that collided with the early North American continent.