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Updated travel registry helps UK students, faculty and staff safely travel abroad

In an effort to help travelers from the University of Kentucky travel abroad safely and productively, the University of Kentucky International Center (UKIC) has launched an updated UK International Travel Registry.

Learning distilled: Education Abroad program connects UK students to key Kentucky industry

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 27, 2026) — How far would you go to better understand one of the key industries in Kentucky? Students in the University of Kentucky Education Abroad program “Interdisciplinary Projects in Distilling” travel across the Atlantic Ocean, to Edinburgh, Scotland in order to compare and contrast the historical, economic and social facets of the distilling industries in Scotland and Kentucky.

Overcoming adversity: UK grad finds home away from home

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 18, 2025) — Husna Ahmadi isn’t sure what she will feel walking across the stage of Rupp Arena to receive her University of Kentucky diploma. “I don’t know what to expect,” she said. “Maybe my whole journey here; the flights, the anxiety, the friends, the memories, all of it may just come rushing back.”