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2025 Research Mentors

Five CoD faculty nominated for UK’s Excellent Research Mentor Award

Haley Simpkins
 Apr 17, 2025
College of Design, Interiors, Product Design, Research

Five University of Kentucky College of Design faculty members were nominated for the UK Office of Undergraduate Research’s Excellent Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. These nominees include:

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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Lecture Series: James Timberlake

Apr 16, 2025, 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Architecture, College of Design

Through the past, present and ‘future’ work at KieranTimberlake, Founding Principal James Timberlake FAIA explores the path ahead for work and the profession. 

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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!

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Gary Rohrbacher Appointed Robert Lynn Leininger Endowed Professor in Furniture Design

Haley Simpkins
 Apr 3, 2025
Architecture, College of Design

Gary Rohrbacher, associate professor in the University of Kentucky School of Architecture, has been announced as the Robert Lynn Leininger Endowed Professor in Furniture Design, a four-year appointment that will continue through June 30, 2029. 

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. 

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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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Lecture and Workshop: Patrick Danahy

Apr 11, 2025, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Architecture, College of Design

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. 

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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.

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