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Two SoA students earn Gilman Scholarships for education abroad

Nine University of Kentucky students were awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships to support their education abroad goals.

SoA student selected to participate in global service fellowship

The University of Kentucky is one of nine institutions across the United States to have students selected to receive the NextGen Service Fellowship from the Institute of International Education (IIE). Eight UK students have been selected to receive funding from the program to complete service projects around the globe.

Katrib selected as one of 42 global Graham Foundation grantees

Leen Katrib, assistant professor in the University of Kentucky College of Design’s School of Architecture, has been awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in support of her research project “From Denver to Chicago: Racial Geographies and the Enduring Underside of Miesian Modernism.”

SoA Grad’s tower design wins international honor in Tokyo

Francisco Aguilar Cortez, a May 2025 architecture graduate and incoming architecture master’s student, has been chosen to exhibit his work in Tokyo, Japan as part of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators’ Architecture in Perspective 39 International Competition.

Bahamian Rhapsody: Master of Architecture student shares her journey from the Bahamas to UK and back

Amber Taylor, a soon-to-be graduate of the University of Kentucky’s two-year Master of Architecture program, has embarked on an impressive academic journey that bridges two worlds: her native home in the Bahamas and her educational home in UK’s College of Design.  

The way to UK: Interiors student trades rainforest for Bluegrass

Since eighth grade, Dana Thalman has dreamed of attending college outside of her home country of Costa Rica. Five years later, that dream became a reality for Thalman, who is now a first-year interior design student in the University of Kentucky College of Design.