News Archive: Awards
UK faculty honored with 2025 Master Teacher Award for commitment to student excellence
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Christopher Carney
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A University of Kentucky Plant and Soil Sciences researcher received this year’s Master Teacher Award, recognizing faculty instructors for outstanding contributions to student success and classroom teaching.
‘A modern Renaissance man:’ UKLA honors Horst Schach and community at 50-year anniversary event
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Christopher Carney
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The University of Kentucky’s Department of Landscape Architecture honors students, colleagues and alumni while celebrating five decades of creating vibrant spaces in Kentucky and beyond.
‘A simple brilliance’: Dr. Nancy Cox delivers 2025 William Henry Hatch Memorial Lecture
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Christopher Carney
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The rotating lecture series honors three historical figures in the land-grant university system and recognizes an outstanding leader for their research contributions.
UK’s Reddy Palli named 2025 National Academy of Inventors Fellow
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Alicia Gregory
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A University of Kentucky researcher and scientist has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.
David Van Sanford receives 2025 USWBSI Lifetime Achievement Excellence Award
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Jennifer Elwell
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The UK professor was honored with a national award for the development of wheat varieties with improved disease resistance and leadership.
UK Martin-Gatton CAFE recognizes faculty members for achievement in research, graduate student mentorship
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Bailey Vandiver
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Feng Li and Dawn Brewer recently received Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment faculty awards.
‘Homemade, Homegrown, Hometown’: Morgan County wins Outstanding Extension Council Award for The Artisans Harvest event
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Lexi Fellows
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Morgan County Extension Council is the recipient of the 2025 Randall Barnett Outstanding County Extension Council.
Ripples of impact: UK rural sociologist honored with two career awards
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Bailey Vandiver
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Julie N. Zimmerman was honored by the Rural Sociological Society and by the Kentucky Association of State Extension Professionals.
University of Kentucky Extension specialists recognized at national conference
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Grace Sowards
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The Epsilon Sigma Phi mission is to foster standards of excellence in the Extension system.
UK Grain and Forage Center of Excellence announces 2025 Kentucky Wheat Yield Contest winners
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Jennifer Elwell
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The Kentucky Wheat Yield Contest honors farmers achieving outstanding production and grain quality while sharing best management practices and directing new research.