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Product Design Students and Charging Station

PRD students build charging station with Campus Woods

Ella Sides
 May 7, 2025
Product Design, University of Kentucky

In the fall semester of 2024, students in UK’s second-year Product Design course, PRD 220, were tasked with designing and building a new battery charging station using materials from Campus Woods, a program that repurposes felled campus trees into usable lumber for student projects.  

Full Spectrum exhibition graphic

Exhibition to celebrate a transformative year in the Gray Design Building

Haley Simpkins
 May 5, 2025
Alumni, Architecture, College of Design, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Landscape Architecture, Product Design, Research, University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky invites the public to experience “Full Spectrum: A Year in the Making in the College of Design and Landscape Architecture,” a dynamic exhibition commemorating the first full academic year inside the Gray Design Building. 

UK's Acting Vice President for Research Ilhem Messaoudi (left) and student nominator Brayden Nichols (right) present Lindsey Fay (center) with a commemorative plaque recognizing her as a 2025 Undergraduate Mentor of the Year..

Lindsey Fay named 2025 UK Excellent Undergraduate Research Mentor

Haley Simpkins
 May 1, 2025
College of Design, Interiors, Research, University of Kentucky

Lindsey Fay, associate professor and associate dean for research in the University of Kentucky College of Design, has been named a 2025 UK Excellent Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year. This prestigious, student-nominated honor celebrates faculty who go above and beyond to foster deep, meaningful undergraduate research experiences for students. 

Participants demonstrate natural dyeing in the workshop. Photo by Haley Simpkins.

Step inside the creative research process with ‘Inside the Lab’ event series

Haley Simpkins
 Apr 29, 2025
College of Design, Research, University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky community experienced research and creative scholarship in a new and interactive way through a recent installment of the “Inside the Lab: Works in Progress” event series. Hosted by the Sustainable Futures Design Lab and supported by the Research Leadership Academy and the Office of the Vice President for Research, this series offers a behind-the-scenes look at the workspaces of researchers, designers, artists and scholars engaged in groundbreaking projects.

Daniel Vivian 25-26 University Research Professor

Daniel Vivian named 2025-26 University Research Professor

Haley Simpkins
 Apr 25, 2025
College of Design, Historic Preservation, Research, University of Kentucky

Today, the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees approved Associate Professor Daniel Vivian as the College of Design’s University Research Professor for the 2025-26 academic year. Established by the Board of Trustees in 1976, the professorships program recognizes research excellence across all UK colleges. 

Austin Hirtzel Maurice A Clay

PRD senior receives 2025 Maurice A. Clay Award

Haley Simpkins
 Apr 21, 2025
College of Design, Product Design, University of Kentucky

Austin Hirtzel, product design senior, was named the 2025  Maurice A. Clay Award recipient for the UK College of Design. 

2025 Chellows

Two CoD students named to 2025 Class of Chellgren Student Fellows

C.Lynn Hiler
 Apr 17, 2025
Architecture, College of Design, Research, University of Kentucky

The Chellgren Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the University of Kentucky has selected the 2025 Class of Chellgren Student Fellows (Chellows) and the 2025-26 Chellgren Faculty Fellows. Dedicated to advancing the University of Kentucky’s commitment to student, teaching and program excellence, the center works toward that mission through several programs.

The project aims to position UK as a regional leader in creative research, arts education and cultural innovation. Photo by Haley Simpkins, UK College of Design.

Provost IMPACT Award: Expanding UK’s arts ecosystem

Haley Simpkins
 Apr 17, 2025
College of Design, Research, University of Kentucky

Last fall, the University of Kentucky Office of the Provost announced the second cohort of the Institutional Multidisciplinary Paradigm to Accelerate Collaboration and Transformation (IMPACT) Awards winners.  

Full Spectrum exhibition graphic

Full Spectrum: A Year in the Making at CoD and LA

May 7, 2025, 4:00 – 7:00 PM
College of Design, University of Kentucky

One year ago, the College of Design and the Department of Landscape Architecture moved into the Gray Design Building, a space that has since become a vibrant hub of creativity, collaboration and innovation. 

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Spring 2025 Commencement and Grad Gathering

May 10, 2025, 9:00 – 11:00 AM
College of Design, University of Kentucky

The College of Design will celebrate its Spring 2025 graduates at Rupp Arena on Saturday, May 10 at 9:00 a.m. Following the commencement ceremony, the UK Alumni Association will host a Grad Gathering at Club C on the first level of Rupp Arena, including free refreshments, gifts for graduates and more.  Congrats to our CoD grads!

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