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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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PRD student Aubree Hay designs materials for the Trimble County project on her computer.

Blueprint Kentucky student fellows program helps reimagine one local community

Jordan Strickler
 Aug 22, 2025
Landscape Architecture, Product Design, Research, University of Kentucky

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

Three buildings displayed in a collage

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

Haley Simpkins
 Aug 6, 2025
Alumni, Historic Preservation, Research

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. 

Leen Katrib (left)

Katrib selected as one of 42 global Graham Foundation grantees

Haley Simpkins
 Jul 29, 2025
International, Architecture, Research

Leen Katrib, assistant professor in the University of Kentucky College of Design’s School of Architecture, has been awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in support of her research project “From Denver to Chicago: Racial Geographies and the Enduring Underside of Miesian Modernism.”

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