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Fall 2025 Interiors Electives

The School of Interiors' Fall 2025 electives explore design history and theory, as well as the development of textiles through both digital and hands-on methods. Electives are open to all design students. Full course details listed below. REGISTER NOW

UK interior design studio prepares future designers to build a more accessible world

Interior design decisions, whether intentional or not, impact how people move through the world and can either support or limit access, dignity and belonging. Yet the profession is often misunderstood as surface-level decoration. The In:Access studio in the University of Kentucky College of Design pushes back against that notion, preparing students to become thoughtful, socially responsible designers.

Chugh honored with UK Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal

Aanya Chugh, assistant professor in the School of Interiors and director of community belonging at the University of Kentucky College of Design, has been awarded the prestigious Silver Medal by the university’s chapter of Tau Sigma Delta, the national honor society for architecture and the allied arts. 

Kentucky Storm Resilience—Documentaries and Discussion

Join KY NSF EPSCoR for a film screening event titled Kentucky Storm Resilience—Documentaries and Discussion. It will feature two films and a panel discussion, featuring School of Interiors faculty member Rebekah Radtke.

Meakins selected for award from Materials Science Research Priority Area

The University of Kentucky Materials Science Research Priority Area (mRPA) has selected 11 researchers as recipients of multiple funding awards. The mRPA offers a variety of funding mechanisms to support materials research across UK and expand the RPA’s breadth and depth of work.

College of Design honors Faculty & Staff Excellence Award Winners

The University of Kentucky College of Design honored the 2024-25 Faculty and Staff Excellence Award winners during its annual employee award ceremony at the UK Arboretum in May.  

Spring 2025 Dean's List announced

Congratulations to the College of Design students that made the Dean's List in the Spring 2025 semester. To make a Dean’s List in one of the UK colleges, an undergraduate student must earn a grade point average of 3.6 or higher and must have earned 12 credits or more in that semester, excluding credits earned in pass-fail classes. 

SoI student awarded Summer 2025 CURE Fellowship

The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) has announced the 16 students, including one interiors student, who have been selected for the 2025 Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Fellowship program.

SoA, SoI faculty weave Appalachian resilience into global architecture discourse

Jeff Fugate, associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Design’s School of Architecture, and Rebekah Radtke, associate professor in the School of Interiors, have been selected to exhibit their work on Appalachian climate resiliency at the 2025 “Time Space Existence” architecture exhibition in Venice, Italy.  

Exhibition to celebrate a transformative year in the Gray Design Building

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.