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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 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:

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.

Spring 2025 Grad Composites

Graduate Composite Photos | Session 2

Apr 18, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Architecture, College of Design, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Product Design

If you are a Spring or Summer 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. 

Spring 2025 Grad Composites

Graduate Composite Photos | Session 1

Apr 16, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Architecture, College of Design, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Product Design

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. 

71 University of Kentucky students will present their research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) April 7-9 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Photo provided by OUR.

Eight CoD students to present research at NCUR

Zoey Schwartz
 Mar 21, 2025
Architecture, College of Design, Interiors, Product Design, Research

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.

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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FoSI Sports Tech Summit

Mar 3, 2025, 12:30 – 5:15 PM
College of Design, Product Design, University of Kentucky

Join us for the Future of Sport Institute’s (FoSI) Sports Tech Summit, taking place Monday, March 3 in the Gray Design Building. The summit’s theme, “Sports Tech: Innovating for Performance and Experience,” will explore the transformative role of technology in shaping the future of sports. 

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Register for the 2025 Design Career Fair

Haley Simpkins
 Feb 18, 2025
Architecture, College of Design, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Landscape Architecture, Product Design, University of Kentucky

Student registration is open on Handshake for the 2025 University of Kentucky Design Career Fair, happening 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28 in the Gatton Student Center. 

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