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IIE NextGen Service Fellowship connects student design to global impact

Haley Simpkins
 Oct 31, 2025

Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, wakes early, its streets alive with vendors’ calls, the rumble of blue-and-white minibuses, and the scent of strong coffee drifting from corner cafés. Amid the bustle, Kauner Shacklette, a senior architecture student in the University of Kentucky College of Design, walks toward the city’s YMCA. As an inaugural recipient of the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) NextGen Service Fellowship, he has been tasked with putting his design knowledge into action by reimagining spaces that could help this community hub better serve its people. 

Flags on table

Emerging Leaders Program connects faculty interested in leading programs abroad

Daniel Flener
 Oct 28, 2025

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 28, 2025) — As part of an ongoing effort to support faculty interested in leading education abroad programs, the office of Education Abroad and Exchanges is taking applications for the Faculty-Directed Emerging Leaders program. The program is designed for UK faculty or staff who are approved for teaching and are interested in directing an education abroad program in the future but who may have limited or no prior experience with education abroad program design or leadership.

Students in South Africa with mountains behind them smiling at camera

UK students bring home new perspectives after global sport experience

Beth Goins
 Oct 24, 2025

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 24, 2025) — The gleam of the expansive soccer stadium bleachers beneath a crystal blue South African sky may have been far from Kentucky, but University of Kentucky students who traveled there as part of a new education abroad experience say the lessons hit close to home. 

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UK International Center, CELT launch Collaborative Online International Learning Community

Daniel Flener
 Sep 15, 2025

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 15, 2025) – A new Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Community, aimed at empowering faculty to design and deliver globally connected course modules through online collaboration with international peers, is now accepting applications.

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UKIC releases Global Engagement Academy offerings for fall 2025

Daniel Flener
 Sep 12, 2025

LEXINGTON, Ky. — As the commonwealth’s flagship research university, the University of Kentucky benefits from being globally engaged.  It is important that all faculty and staff have the opportunity to be informed about UK’s many international connections and to contribute to this important strength of the university themselves.  

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UK International Center Announces 2025 Global Impact Award Winners

Daniel Flener
 Sep 4, 2025

LEXINGTON, Ky — The International Center at the University of Kentucky has announced the 2025 UK Global Impact Award winners. Recipients comprise faculty, staff, alumni and community members who have significantly contributed to the university’s global engagement through education, research and service. “These individuals are making a wonderful and positive difference with their dedication to helping create a more global University of Kentucky,” said Sue Roberts, associate provost for internationalization. “We are excited to honor their contributions.”

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9 UK students earn Gilman Scholarships for education abroad

Tom Musgrave
 Aug 15, 2025

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 15, 2025) — Nine University of Kentucky students were awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships to support their education abroad goals.

Students on service fellowship

UK students selected to participate in global service fellowship

Daniel Flener
 Aug 13, 2025

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 13, 2025) — 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.

PA students abroad

UK PA Students Break New Ground in International Exchange with Dutch Clinical Rotation

Ryan Clark
 Aug 1, 2025

In another step forward for international collaboration in healthcare education, two Physician Assistant (PA) students from the University of Kentucky’s College of Health Sciences (CHS) recently completed the department’s first international Supervised Clinical Practicum Experience (SCPE) for students.

Herculaneum scrolls

UK’s Brent Seales, global team secure Europe’s top research grant to digitally decode Herculaneum scrolls

Lindsey Piercy
 Jul 31, 2025

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 28, 2025) — Brent Seales, heritage science chair in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky, has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant as part of an international team seeking to unlock the secrets of the Herculaneum scrolls. The iconic and historically inaccessible ancient texts were carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

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