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Website. uky.edu. The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. 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).
physician, medical school professor, medical researcher in infectious diseases, medical journal editor, and historian of medicine. [ 33 ] A. D. Kirwan. AB 1926. Former President of the University of Kentucky. [ 34 ] William English Kirwan. AB 1960. Chancellor of the University System of Maryland.
Pages in category "University of Kentucky faculty" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 221 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
John R. Thelin. John R. Thelin is an American scholar of higher education in the United States. [1] He is University Research Professor at the University of Kentucky. [2]
Douglas A. Boyd. Douglas A. Boyd is an oral historian, archivist, folklorist, musician, and author and currently directs the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky. He graduated from Denison University with a B.A. in History and graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with an M.A. and Ph.D. in folklore.
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.
Signature. James Kennedy Patterson (March 26, 1833 – August 15, 1922) was an academic who served as the first president of the University of Kentucky. His family immigrated from Scotland to Indiana in 1842 when he was nine years old. He pursued what meager educational opportunities were available in his new home, and eventually attended ...
The first library at the University of Kentucky was the 7,367 gross sq. ft. (basement, 1st & mezzanine) Carnegie library. [2] Dedicated in November 1909, it was constructed with a $26,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie, it was operated by Margaret I. King, the university's first librarian who was also secretary to the university's first President, James Patterson.