Arts and Sciences Students Awarded 2024-25 Goldwater Scholarship
By Emily Sallee
Black Alumni Reception 2024
Photos from the UK College of Arts and Sciences Black Alumni Reception and student panel on April 12th, 2024
College of Arts and Sciences Announces Faculty Award Winners
The University of Kentucky has announced recipients of the 2024 Faculty Awards. The College will have an awards program and reception in early fall to recognize the recipients. More information will follow soon.
2024 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Awards recipients are:
Outstanding Teaching Award
Arts and Sciences Students Named as Gaines Fellows
By Daily Bates
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 2, 2024) — The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities has selected 12 undergraduate students for its fellowship program.
Arts and Sciences undergraduate researchers present at the state Capitol
PubMed Publications
Recent Publications by Biology Faculty
I Di Lecce; J Sudyka; DF Westneat; M Szulkin
"Preserving avian blood and DNA sampled in the wild: A survey of personal experiences."
Ecology and evolution
12,
8
(2022):
e9232.
Faculty Profile: David Westneat
J Wright; TR Haaland; NJ Dingemanse; DF Westneat
"A reaction norm framework for the evolution of learning: how cumulative experience shapes phenotypic plasticity."
Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
97,
5
(2022):
1999-2021.
Faculty Profile: David Westneat
RL Cooper; MA Thomas; DN McLetchie
"Impedance Measures for Detecting Electrical Responses during Acute Injury and Exposure of Compounds to Roots of Plants."
Methods and protocols
5,
4
(2022):
Faculty Profile: D. Nicholas McLetchie
RA Yokel; ML Ensor; HJ Vekaria; PG Sullivan; DJ Feola; A Stromberg; MT Tseng; DA Harrison
"Cerium dioxide, a Jekyll and Hyde nanomaterial, can increase basal and decrease elevated inflammation and oxidative stress."
Nanomedicine : nanotechnology, biology, and medicine
43,
(2022):
102565.
Faculty Profile: Doug Harrison
KF Titialii-Torres; AC Morris
"Embryonic hyperglycemia perturbs the development of specific retinal cell types, including photoreceptors."
Journal of cell science
135,
1
(2022):
Faculty Profile: Ann C. Morris
B Connor; K Titialii-Torres; AE Rockenhaus; S Passamonte; AC Morris; YS Lee
"Biliverdin regulates NR2E3 and zebrafish retinal photoreceptor development."
Scientific reports
12,
1
(2022):
7310.
Faculty Profile: Ann C. Morris
Y Zhang; Y Liu; L Sun; CC Baskin; JM Baskin; M Cao; J Yang
"Seed dormancy in space and time: global distribution, paleoclimatic and present climatic drivers, and evolutionary adaptations."
The New phytologist
234,
5
(2022):
1770-1781.
Faculty Profile: Carol Baskin
MJ Duncan; LE Guerriero; K Köhler; LE Beechem; BD Gillis; F Salisbury; C Wessel; J Wang; S Sunderam; AD Bachstetter; BF O'Hara; MP Murphy
"Chronic Fragmentation of the Daily Sleep-Wake Rhythm Increases Amyloid-beta Levels and Neuroinflammation in the 3xTg-AD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease."
Neuroscience
481,
(2022):
111-122.
Faculty Profile: Bruce O'Hara
LA Krueger; AC Morris
"Generation of a zebrafish knock-in line expressing MYC-tagged Sox11a using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing."
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
608,
(2022):
8-13.
Faculty Profile: Ann C. Morris
S Nowoshilow; JF Fei; Voss SR; EM Tanaka; P Murawala
"Gene and transgenics nomenclature for the laboratory axolotl-Ambystoma mexicanum."
Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists
251,
6
(2022):
913-921.
Faculty Profile: S. Randal Voss
X Qin; W Liang; Z Liu; M Liu; CC Baskin; JM Baskin; Z Xin; Z Wang; Q Zhou
"Plant canopy may promote seed dispersal by wind."
Scientific reports
12,
1
(2022):
63.
Faculty Profile: Carol Baskin
W Tang; H Guo; CC Baskin; W Xiong; C Yang; Z Li; H Song; T Wang; J Yin; X Wu; F Miao; S Zhong; Q Tao; Y Zhao; J Sun
"Effect of Light Intensity on Morphology, Photosynthesis and Carbon Metabolism of Alfalfa (<i>Medicago sativa</i>) Seedlings."
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
11,
13
(2022):
Faculty Profile: Carol Baskin
KB Graniczkowska; CL Shaffer; VM Cassone
"Transcriptional effects of melatonin on the gut commensal bacterium Klebsiella aerogenes."
Genomics
114,
2
(2022):
110321.
Faculty Profile: Vincent Cassone
K Maleki; CC Baskin; JM Baskin; M Kiani; I Alahdadi; E Soltani
"Seed germination thermal niche differs among nine populations of an annual plant: A modeling approach."
Ecology and evolution
12,
8
(2022):
e9240.
Faculty Profile: Carol Baskin
J Lü; H Yi; D Tan; CC Baskin; JM Baskin
"Germination of Seeds from Flowers along a Continuum of Long to Short Styles in the Cold Desert Perennial Herb <i>Ixiolirion songaricum</i>."
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
11,
11
(2022):
Faculty Profile: Carol Baskin
J Cao; B Li; R Qi; T Liu; X Chen; B Gao; K Liu; CC Baskin; Z Zhao
"Negative impacts of human disturbances on the seed bank of subalpine forests are offset by climatic factors."
The Science of the total environment
851,
Pt 2
(2022):
158249.
Faculty Profile: Carol Baskin
RL Cooper; MA Thomas; RM Vascassenno; KE Brock; DN McLetchie
"Measuring Electrical Responses during Acute Exposure of Roots and Rhizoids of Plants to Compounds Using a Flow-Through System."
Methods and protocols
5,
4
(2022):
Faculty Profile: D. Nicholas McLetchie
JDC Silva-E-Costa; AP Luizi-Ponzo; DN McLetchie
"Sex Differences in Desiccation Tolerance Varies by Colony in the Mesic Liverwort <i>Plagiochila porelloides</i>."
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
11,
4
(2022):
Faculty Profile: D. Nicholas McLetchie
S Li; S Zhang; CC Baskin; Z Zhang; S Xiao; H Bu; Y Liu; T Zhang; S Chen; Q Liu; K Liu
"Effect of grazing and nitrogen addition on the occurrence of species with different seed masses in alpine meadows on the Tibet Plateau."
The Science of the total environment
838,
Pt 4
(2022):
156531.
Faculty Profile: Carol Baskin
RA Marks; M Mbobe; M Greyling; J Pretorius; DN McLetchie; R VanBuren; JM Farrant
"Variability in Functional Traits along an Environmental Gradient in the South African Resurrection Plant <i>Myrothamnus flabellifolia</i>."
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
11,
10
(2022):
Faculty Profile: D. Nicholas McLetchie