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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.  

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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!

PRD/ENG Collab

PRD, Engineering students create products for the future of healthcare and electric mobility

Haley Simpkins
 Apr 2, 2025
College of Design, Product Design, Research, University of Kentucky

Students from the University of Kentucky College of Design's Department of Product Design and the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering teamed up with UK HealthCare, and other industry professionals, to create innovative medical devices and products addressing critical challenges in other industries. 

One Day Web

One Day for UK

Apr 24, 2025
Alumni, Architecture, College of Design, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Product Design, University of Kentucky

Join us on One Day for UK — our 24-hour giving event — where Wildcats and friends unite to fuel opportunity, ignite change and ensure that Ev’ry Wildcat star will shine across Kentucky and beyond.

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SoA Senior to give Breathitt Lecture on relationship between social issues, architecture

Catherine Brereton
Mar 28, 2025
Architecture, College of Design, Research, University of Kentucky

Lucas Carlos de Lima, a University of Kentucky senior in the College of Design, will give the 30th annual Edward T. Breathitt Undergraduate Lectureship in the Humanities. Carlos de Lima’s lecture will explore the utopian architecture of Wenzel Hablik and Peirre Chareau and the relationship between social issues and architecture.

Prisha Patel, Gaines Fellow

SoA sophomore selected as Gaines Fellow

Ryan Girves
 Mar 25, 2025
Architecture, Research, University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities announced the selection of 12 undergraduates as the newest class of Gaines Fellows, including one School of Architecture student. These students will join the prestigious Gaines Fellowship Program in the Humanities for the 2025-26 academic year.

KayDee Pratt

Advancing Kentucky Together: KayDee Pratt’s drive to design more

Allison Jones
 Mar 20, 2025
College of Design, Product Design, Research, University of Kentucky

Virtual reality and shoes. Those are two things KayDee Pratt, a senior majoring in product design in the University of Kentucky College of Design, loves. Over the summer, she worked on two research projects — one focused on comparing product models in person versus in virtual reality, and the other focused on creating and designing shoes in virtual reality.

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