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UK CoD announces Fall 2025 hires and promotions

Haley Simpkins
 Sep 3, 2025
Architecture, College of Design, Interiors, Product Design

The University of Kentucky College of Design is pleased to announce faculty promotions, new appointments and staff additions for the Fall 2025 semester, underscoring the College’s continued commitment to academic excellence and community support across the School of Architecture, School of Interiors, Department of Historic Preservation and Department of Product Design. 

student group in Italy

Info Sessions: Summer 2026 Education Abroad in Italy Wednesday 9/3 and Friday 9/5

Sep 3, 2025, 12:30 PM – Sep 5, 2025, 12:30 PM
Education Abroad, Architecture, College of Design, Interiors

Join us for an information session about the College of Design's summer 2026 Education Abroad program in Italy, led by Mark and Mary Lee O'Bryan. Two sessions will be held on Wednesday, 9/3 and Friday 9/5 at 12:30 p.m. in the GDB Clearing. 

Students and faculty from the College of Design and Department of Landscape Architecture pose for a group photo beside the Mississippi River in New Orleans while attending the 2025 Design Futures Forum. Photo provided.

UK students explore community-driven design at Design Futures Forum

Haley Simpkins
 Aug 19, 2025
Architecture, College of Design, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Landscape Architecture, Product Design, University of Kentucky

Earlier this summer, 10 students and three faculty members from the University of Kentucky College of Design and the Department of Landscape Architecture in the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment traveled to New Orleans for Design Futures Forum (DFF) 2025, a yearly national public interest design student leadership forum. 

interiors electives graphic

Fall 2025 Interiors Electives

Jul 28, 2025
College of Design, Interiors

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

In:Access Studio student Sydney Weibl presents her recommendations on how to make pathways in the Gray Design Building more accessible to an audience of peers, faculty and professionals during final reviews. Photo by Haley Simpkins.

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

Haley Simpkins
 Jul 18, 2025
College of Design, Interiors, Research

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.

Aanya Chugh (left), Silver Medal Award (right)

Chugh honored with UK Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal

Haley Simpkins
 Jul 1, 2025
College of Design, Interiors

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

Kentucky Storm Resilience—Documentaries and Discussion

Jul 18, 2025, 9:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Interiors, Research, University of Kentucky

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.

Digital Knitting Machine

Meakins selected for award from Materials Science Research Priority Area

Lindsay Travis
 Jun 17, 2025
Interiors, Research, University of Kentucky

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.

Jon Mills shakes Dean Ned Crankshaw's hand as he receives a special honor.

College of Design honors Faculty & Staff Excellence Award Winners

Haley Simpkins
 Jun 11, 2025
Architecture, College of Design, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Product Design, Research

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.  

S25 Dean's List

Spring 2025 Dean's List announced

May 28, 2025
Architecture, College of Design, Interiors, Product Design, University of Kentucky

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. 

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