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

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 for UK

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.

Lecture and Workshop: Patrick Danahy

In his lecture Building From Source, Patrick Danahy will explore the potential of AI-driven feature embedding as a tool for designers to challenge and expand their perceptual frameworks. Danahy will also lead a 2-day workshop in which participants will learn how to input various design prompts and adjust parameters to generate unique design elements using AI-driven diffusion models. 

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

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.

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.

Book Talk: Villa and Palace in the Venetian Renaissance

Join Assistant Professor of Architecture Johanna Heinrichs for a discussion about her book Villa and Palace in the Venetian Renaissance: The Palladian House Between Country and City, recently published by Cambridge University Press. Coffee and light breakfast will be served.

Graduate Composite Photos | Session 2

If you are a Spring 2025 graduate, stop by anytime between 12-1 pm to get your headshot taken for the class composite that will be displayed in the Gray Design Building. These are NOT cap and gown photos; casual dress is preferred. 

Graduate Composite Photos | Session 1

If you are a Spring 2025 graduate, stop by anytime between 12-1 pm to get your headshot taken for the class composite that will be displayed in the Gray Design Building. These are NOT cap and gown photos; casual dress is preferred. 

Lecture Series: Brian M. Kelly, AIA

 Although somewhat controversial, copy and error are unavoidable and necessary components of a contemporary design process. Sample, reference, and precedent are widely used techniques in design, and the rapid mass adoption of artificial intelligence tools has brought the copy even more into daily discussions. The current trajectory of Al is to remove error to create a tool which can be relied upon for its accuracy and predictability, but this is runs contrary to human intelligence of which it is attempting to replicate.

Eight CoD students to present research at NCUR

Seventy-one University of Kentucky students, including eight College of Design students, will present their research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), April 7-9 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.