News Archive: Family & Consumer Sciences
Creative programs in food deserts teach valuable lessons

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Aimee Nielson
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Nutirtion education and community gardens teach kids healthy ways to eat.
Grants available to improve food insecurity for rural children
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Katie Pratt
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Grant funds will help lower instances of child food insecurity in persistently poor rural areas in 15 states.
Grant to empower women farmers, improve child nutrition in Ghana
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Katie Pratt
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Three UKAg professors received a grant to help local female farmers in the African country sell their food to schools.
Longest Day of Play makes a splash in Somerset
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Katie Pratt
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Pulaski County Cooperative Extension is part of a group that offers area young people the opportunity to jump into physical fitness at a local waterpark... for free.
UK Ph.D. student earns international award
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Carl Nathe
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Charlene Harris is the first UK doctoral student to receive the American Society of Criminology's Graduate Fellowship for Ethnic Minorities.
UKAg students to speak at Friday’s Harambee graduation ceremony
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Katie Pratt
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Seniors Alaysia Radford and Xavia Gantz were selected by the ceremony's committee.
UK receives grant to empower urban, homeless youth
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Katie Pratt
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The grant will allow UKAg researchers to teach life skills to homeless young people.
Café supports those with memory loss
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Katie Pratt
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UK Cooperative Extension in Larue County is one of the community partners for a support group that helps families and individuals dealing with dementia and Alzheimer's.
Big Blue Family VIDEO: A 150 Year UK Family Tradition
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Whitney Hale
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UKAg student Charolotte Bowman Mayer was featured in a story about families that make up the UK community.