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2024 College of Design Annual Research Report

Over the past year, the College of Design has celebrated numerous research achievements, including exhibition openings, equipment acquisition, book releases, and the College of Design Seminar Series. With a breadth of scholarship that spans from theory to advocacy to creative practice, research in the College of Design is on a distinctly positive trajectory.

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Featured Research

Bartlett named 2025-26 TEK Faculty Fellow

The University of Kentucky’s Office of Transdisciplinary Educational approaches to advance Kentucky (TEK) has announced the TEK Faculty Fellows for the 2025-26 academic year. A critical mission of TEK is the development of new transdisciplinary courses and the reimagining of existing courses to emphasize one or more essential employability skills. To accomplish this, TEK is leveraging the expertise of a new cohort of TEK Faculty Fellows.

Blueprint Kentucky student fellows program helps reimagine one local community

This unique internship experience helps communities identify and leverage their unique assets to support economic growth, tourism and quality of life.

Preserving the past, Shaping the future: Inside UK’s Historic Preservation program

At the University of Kentucky’s College of Design, the Master of Historic Preservation (MHP) program is more than a degree; it’s a launching pad for advocacy, storytelling and cultural stewardship. Small in size but broad in vision, the program attracts students from a wide range of backgrounds who share a common goal: to ensure that the stories embedded in the built environment don’t fade with time.