Behind the Blue

Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies with Jeff Rice

LEXINGTON, Ky. (February 1, 2018) –The University of Kentucky’s Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies (WRD) is dedicated to the study and teaching of writing practices, public rhetoric, and digital media. The department serves over 5,000 UK undergraduates each year, and the WRD BA/BS major offers students three tracks: 

• Professional Writing and Editing (for those who want careers in editing and publishing or writing for/within a nonprofit or business)
• Rhetorical Theory and Practice (for those who want to get involved in public advocacy, government, or law)
• Digital Studies (for those who want to write and produce content for electronic spaces and understand how those spaces are designed)

WRD also offers a minor in Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies as well as a minor in Professional and Technical Writing.

This week’s guest on Behind the Blue is Dr. Jeff Rice. Dr. Rice holds the Martha B. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky, writes on media and network theory and brings national speakers to campus to speak on digital media. From 2012-2015, he co-directed Wired, the College of Arts and Sciences residential college.

On this week’s episode, Dr. Rice discusses the diversity of careers that benefit from a WRD background, what he’s learned from students over the years, his thoughts on the “most tattooed Department on campus”, and more.

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A Campus Walk With Sonja Feist-Price

LEXINGTON, Ky. (November 2, 2017) – A central tenant of the University of Kentucky’s 2015-2020 Strategic Plan is ongoing work towards Diversity and Inclusivity. To that end, the Office for Institutional Diversity serves the entire university community, working to implement ideas, collaborate on outreach and recruitment efforts, and to enhance student retention and achievement.

In March of 2017, the University of Kentucky named Sonja Feist-Price as vice president for institutional diversity. Feist-Price has been at UK for nearly 25 years as a leading teacher and scholar in the College of Education. She also has served as academic ombud, and most recently as a senior assistant provost for faculty affairs.

On this week’s episode of Behind the Blue, Dr. Feist-Price joins UKPR’s Amy Jones-Timoney on a walk across campus. In their conversation, they discuss her new role on campus, the joy she gets from working with students, how she incorporates diverse perspectives from across campus to impact the lives of students, faculty and staff..

The idea behind “Campus Walks” is to get out of the office and onto campus with members of the UK community, to have in-depth, authentic conversations about our university with the people working so hard to advance our mission of education, research and service. You can also watch the video of our walk here.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Amy Jones-Timoney, [email protected], (859) 257-2940

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UK is the University for Kentucky. At UK, we are educating more students, treating more patients with complex illnesses and conducting more research and service than at any time in our 150-year history. To read more about the UK story and how you can support continued investment in your university and the Commonwealth, go to: uky.edu/uk4ky. #uk4ky #seeblue

LEXINGTON, Ky. (October 16, 2017) – This fall, UK HealthCare welcomes Dr. Mark F. Newman as its new executive vice president for health affairs. An Owensboro Kentucky native, Dr. Newman comes to UK from Duke University Medical Center, where he had a distinguished career in medicine, working in anesthesiology and healthcare management.

In his new role, Dr. Newman will be responsible for UK HealthCare, the clinical enterprise of the University of Kentucky, and will also work with the provost to guide the UK College of Medicine.

On this week’s episode of Behind the Blue, Dr. Newman sits down with Amy Jones-Timoney from UK Public Relations and Marketing, to discuss his approach to taking on the new role, how his Kentucky roots helped guide him in life, his thoughts on what UK HealthCare can and should mean to the Commonwealth, and more.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Amy Jones-Timoney, [email protected], (859) 257-2940

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UK is the University for Kentucky. At UK, we are educating more students, treating more patients with complex illnesses and conducting more research and service than at any time in our 150-year history. To read more about the UK story and how you can support continued investment in your university and the Commonwealth, go to: uky.edu/uk4ky. #uk4ky #seeblue

LEXINGTON, Ky. (September 20, 2017) – This week’s guest on Behind the Blue is Dr. Ken Troske. Dr. Troske is the Associate Dean for graduate programs and outreach in the Gatton College of Business and Richard W. and Janis H. Furst Endowed Chair of Economics at the University of Kentucky, as well as a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.

Dr. Troske served as a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel whose task was to assess the existing condition of America’s financial markets and the regulatory system, as well as to closely monitor the actions of the Treasury Department and financial institutions to determine if their actions are in the best interest of the American economy.

Dr. Troske joins us this week to discuss current trends in American economics, the impact of government collapses like the ones currently happening in Venezuela and Yemen, how countries fall into and climb out of those types of “death spirals,” and more.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Carl Nathe, [email protected], (859) 257-3200

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UK is the University for Kentucky. At UK, we are educating more students, treating more patients with complex illnesses and conducting more research and service than at any time in our 150-year history. To read more about the UK story and how you can support continued investment in your university and the Commonwealth, go to: uky.edu/uk4ky. #uk4ky #seeblue

LEXINGTON, Ky. (September 13, 2017) – “There isn’t a university in the U.S. right now that doesn’t have some kind of internationalization or globalization as one of their top priorities,” says Dr. Sue Roberts, UK’s Associate Provost for Internationalization and Director for the UK International Center (UKIC).

From Education Abroad to International Student Recruitment to Global Health and more, the UKIC leads internationalization efforts at the University of Kentucky. The work of the UKIC is supported by the International Advisory Council, a group of globally-engaged faculty and administrators representing each of the University’s 16 colleges, plus other key academic units.

On this week’s episode of Behind the Blue, Dr. Roberts joins us to discuss ‘human’ geography, helping the University on a global stage through her transition to the UKIC, and the wealth of global learning opportunities UK provides both internationally and here at home.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Amy Jones-Timoney, [email protected], (859) 257-2940

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UK is the University for Kentucky. At UK, we are educating more students, treating more patients with complex illnesses and conducting more research and service than at any time in our 150-year history. To read more about the UK story and how you can support continued investment in your university and the Commonwealth, go to: uky.edu/uk4ky. #uk4ky #seeblue

LEXINGTON, Ky. (September 7, 2017) – The debate surrounding Confederate monuments and statues in public spaces has ebbed and flowed since their creation. This debate seems to be at high point, with the June 2015 murders of nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina serving as a springboard into a national spotlight of conversation and controversy.

From Florida to California, from Alabama to Maine, monuments to the Confederacy have been under increased scrutiny and efforts to either preserve them on or remove them from the grounds they occupy.

In an effort to get more perspective on the swirling interest around the future of these statues, this week’s episode of Behind the Blue features Dr. Amy Murrell Taylor, from the Department of History in the UK College of Arts & Sciences. A 2016 winner of the UK Alumni Association’s Great Teacher Award, Dr. Taylor’s research focuses on the social and cultural history of the U.S. South in the era of the Civil War and Emancipation.

Dr. Taylor’s first book, The Divided Family in Civil War America (UNC Press, 2005), explored the image and reality of families divided by national loyalties in the Civil War period. Her current book project, Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the U.S. Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (UNC Press, forthcoming), is a study of the many thousands of men, women, and children who fled slavery during the Civil War.

Dr. Taylor gives a historian’s perspective on how she approaches the discussion regarding these monuments, how many people would be surprised at Kentucky’s actual role in the Civil War, the reactions and insights she gets from students, and more.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Amy Jones-Timoney, [email protected], (859) 257-2940

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UK is the University for Kentucky. At UK, we are educating more students, treating more patients with complex illnesses and conducting more research and service than at any time in our 150-year history. To read more about the UK story and how you can support continued investment in your university and the Commonwealth, go to: uky.edu/uk4ky. #uk4ky #seeblue

A Campus Walk With UK President Eli Capilouto

LEXINGTON, Ky. (September 1, 2017) – This fall, members of the Class of 2021 are experiencing a campus that has been transformed with student success at its core.

During the past six years, the University of Kentucky has invested more than $2.3 billion in facilities designed to support students. New residence halls, innovative classrooms and learning spaces, along with modern lab space create boundless opportunities for our newest Wildcats to learn, discover and grow.

With students already moving onto campus, we wanted to spend some time with University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto to get his thoughts on the upcoming academic year.

Since UK’s president loves to walk the campus, this episode of Behind the Blue is taken from our “Campus Walks” video series produced by UK Public Relations & Marketing. Dr. Capilouto joins UKPR’s Amy Jones-Timoney in a discussion on topics including campus renovation, the significance of Maxwell Place, and the mission and responsibility of the University to the Commonwealth.

The idea behind “Campus Walks” is to get out of the office and onto campus with members of the UK community, to have in-depth, authentic conversations about our university with the people working so hard to advance our mission of education, research and service. You can also watch the video of our walk. Click here for segment 1, here for segment 2, here for segment 3, and here for segment 4.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 5, 2017) – The most exciting two minutes in sports brings horses, jockeys, celebrities and more from across the country and around the world to Louisville, Kentucky every year. While reporters and guests focus on big hats, bow ties, silks and mint juleps researchers at the University of Kentucky are interested in injuries.

One of the many benefits of a campus like UK’s is the ability to work across disciplines and specialties on research. So, when a physician at Keeneland approached Dr. Christian Lattermann about documenting jockey injuries Lattermann asked Dr. Carl Mattacola to work on the project with him, in partnership with the Jockeys’ Guild, to establish and grow a registry that can be utilized to look at injuries among professional jockeys.

Since 2006 Lattermann and Mattacola have had the opportunity to work on numerous projects together. They join us this week on Behind the Blue to discuss those projects, including their work with the UK Sports Medicine Research Institute, or SMRI.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 1, 2017) – This week, the University of Kentucky will honor its next group of undergraduate and graduate degree candidates, as spring commencement ceremonies are held. As these new graduates move on from campus and out into the world, they may soon discover that no matter how far from Lexington they travel, the University of Kentucky is closer than they might expect. Alumni from UK live and work around the world, and the UK Alumni Association works to keep those alumni connected both to campus and each other.

Since its inception more than 125 years ago in 1889, the UK Alumni Association has served the University and its nearly 300,000 alumni worldwide by providing benefits, communications, programs, services, records management and legislative advocacy. Joining us on this episode of ‘Behind the Blue’ to talk about the Alumni Association are Jill Smith, the Associate Director for Communications and Membership, and Program Coordinator Sara-Elizabeth Bush.

They discuss with us their own personal experiences as UK students and alumni, the benefits of becoming a part of the Alumni Association, and how the advantages go far beyond finding a group of Cats fans to watch the next big game with…

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 17, 2017) – Each year we see athletes new and old flipping, dunking and swimming their way to wins and national titles. What we don’t see are the countless staff members working to keep these athletes healthy and in shape before, during and after their meets, games and matches.

People like Dr. Kim Kaiser, assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine. Kaiser not only serves patients in the UK Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine clinic she’s also team doctor for gymnastics, cheerleading, women’s soccer, swimming and diving, volleyball and sideline physician for women’s basketball.

In this week's episode of the Behind the Blue, Kaiser shares how she works with athletes to ensure they’re in shape and feeling healthy for class and game time. She also provides insights into how research being done at UK Sports Medicine will help reduce and hopefully prevent the long term effects of repeated head injury and concussion. Kaiser also discusses why she chose to come to Lexington from Missouri and how her experience as a student athlete better enables her to treat both college athletes and patients in clinic who have their own athletic goals.  

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