SoI faculty and students to present at inaugural KYnsHIP Conference

Two School of Interiors faculty members and nine SoI students were selected to present at the inaugural Kentucky Network for Supporting High Impact Practices (KYnsHIP) Conference on Friday, April 4, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the University of Kentucky Gatton Student Center.

The KYnsHIP conference, hosted by the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE), is designed to foster innovative best practices in teaching and learning among the educational community.

SoI Professor Patrick Lee Lucas will be doing two presentations throughout the day. Lucas’s first presentation titled “Voices of Design: Oral History as a High Impact Practice”, will be presented in collaboration with Jennifer Bartlett of UK Libraries and SoI students Alex Adams, Kayla Freeman and Kat Pence during the third presentation session from 11:20-11:50 a.m. 

Both Lucas’s second presentation and SoI Assistant Professor Aanya Chugh’s presentation will be held during the sixth presentation session from 2:35-3:05 p.m. Chugh will be presenting “Reverse Engineering a Sensory Memory: AI Prompt Writing as a Reflective Practice.” Lucas’s second presentation titled “Teaching Assistants as Catalysts and Leaders in the History/Theory Classroom” will be presented in collaboration with SoI students Gracie Garner, Zahra Hajibabaei, Hannah Miller, Sarah Smith, MicKah Steele and Maya Valencia.

The event will also feature keynote speaker Sarah Bunnell, a leader in education innovation and director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University, who will speak on student success and faculty development. For the full agenda, visit https://kynship.ca.uky.edu/agenda. 

This event is free for all participants and includes a continental breakfast and lunch. All students, faculty, staff and educators in Kentucky are invited. Register here.