News Archive: Sustainability
UK students help people of Ecuador obtain clean water

By
Jordan Strickler
Published on Aug. 4, 2022
In Ecuador, the Tsáchila people have long endured myriad health problems, all linked to contaminated water. University of Kentucky professor Wayne Sanderson and a group of students from the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment may have found a likely solution to the dilemma.
UK helps forest managers battle climate change

By
Jordan Strickler
Published on Jun. 21, 2022
Improving ecosystems’ response to climate change presents a major challenge to the state’s natural resource managers and landowners.
UK grad turns attention toward conservation

By
Jordan Strickler
Published on May. 5, 2022
Clay Turner knew that one day, unless something radically changed, his kids would be forced to grow up in a world battered by climate change.
The Food Connection names new director

By
Jordan Strickler
Published on Mar. 22, 2022
Ashton Wright will be taking the head role at The Food Connection.
UK James B. Beam Institute offers industry-first whiskey workforce apprenticeship program

By
Aimee Nielson
Published on Mar. 16, 2022
UK researchers working with Salk Institute to develop more resilient plants
By
Katie Pratt
Published on Mar. 16, 2022
Annual James B. Beam Institute Bourbon Industry Conference in person and expanded for 2022

By
Aimee Nielson
Published on Feb. 14, 2022
The third annual conference is March 14-16 on the UK campus in Lexington.
No-tillage agriculture: A legacy born in Kentucky
By
Katie Pratt
Published on Feb. 9, 2022
Preregistration open for UK winter wheat meeting
By
Katie Pratt
Published on Dec. 10, 2021