News Archive: Family & Consumer Sciences
Walk, run, bike, explore proposed Town Branch Water Walk
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Carol Lea Spence
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The second of three livableLex 2nd Sunday Town Branch Water Walks in Lexington this fall takes place Oct. 11 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET.
Ann Vail named College of Social Work Interim Dean
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Carl Nathe
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Vail will continue to serve as the college's director of the School of Human Environmental Sciences while she assumes her new responsibilities.
Creative programs in food deserts teach valuable lessons
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Aimee Nielson
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Nutirtion education and community gardens teach kids healthy ways to eat.
Grants available to improve food insecurity for rural children
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Katie Pratt
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Grant funds will help lower instances of child food insecurity in persistently poor rural areas in 15 states.
Grant to empower women farmers, improve child nutrition in Ghana
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Katie Pratt
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Three UKAg professors received a grant to help local female farmers in the African country sell their food to schools.
Longest Day of Play makes a splash in Somerset
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Katie Pratt
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Pulaski County Cooperative Extension is part of a group that offers area young people the opportunity to jump into physical fitness at a local waterpark... for free.
UK Ph.D. student earns international award
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Carl Nathe
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Charlene Harris is the first UK doctoral student to receive the American Society of Criminology's Graduate Fellowship for Ethnic Minorities.
UKAg students to speak at Friday’s Harambee graduation ceremony
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Katie Pratt
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Seniors Alaysia Radford and Xavia Gantz were selected by the ceremony's committee.
UK receives grant to empower urban, homeless youth
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Katie Pratt
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The grant will allow UKAg researchers to teach life skills to homeless young people.