DEI News
Movement Mentors Celebrate Year
April 27, 2022
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
The goal? To get young area students moving.
The outcome? It could not be termed anything but a rousing success.
CHS Family Celebrates at Student Awards
April 27, 2022
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
Some of the professors could barely hold back their tears. Then again, others didn't hold back at all.
That was the vibe at the 2022 College of Health Sciences Student Awards ceremony Tuesday.
It was a feel-good, end-of-year celebration of achievement held in the Worsham Cinema in the Gatton Student Center.
Servant Leader: Uriah Carter hired as new CHS Director of Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
March 29, 2022
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
When people used to say, “Thank you” to Uriah Carter’s Granny, the elder woman would never say “You’re welcome.”
Instead, she would respond in this way: “I’m just here to serve.” And it made a big difference in Carter’s life.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2022: ‘I Just Want to Thank Them so, so Much’
February 23, 2022
Director of Office of Health Equity took Circuitous Road
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
It was a small bump on the neck, she says. Warm to the touch.
She hadn’t even noticed it until a nurse brought it up during a routine examination.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2022: RHB Student Wins Leadership Legacy Award
February 15, 2022
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
We are so proud to share the news that Ke’La Porter, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS, who serves as the student member of the DEI Committee, has been selected as the graduate student recipient of the inaugural Leadership Legacy award presented by the MLK Center. The Leadership Legacy Award is given to both an undergraduate and graduate student who embody the spirit of Dr. King’s legacy of thoughtful leadership and trailblazing vision. Award winners have demonstrated evidence of the following:
Bryan Station, UK Announce Program Focused on Career Exploration and Mentorship
December 21, 2021
Bryan Station High School and the University of Kentucky have partnered to provide students of diverse backgrounds with career exploration opportunities through guided support
Celebrating the CHS Global Community on International Students’ Day
November 17, 2021
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
When 29-year-old Alyaa Zagzoog, from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was looking for a university to attend for graduate school, she had a checklist of things in her mind; the perfect place would meet each item on that list.
The university needed to have a lot of native English speakers. But it needed to be in a quiet and affordable area.
Active Women’s Health Initiative Working to Support ‘Play for Her’ Challenge
November 2, 2021
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
Rachel Kleis is always looking for ways to stay active. Lucky for her, the Active Women’s Health Initiative is sponsoring a new event — one that will help girls and women do just that.
CHS PhD Student awarded Lyman T. Johnson Postdoctoral Fellowship
October 12, 2021
By Ellee Sidebottom
CHS Contributor
Ke’La Porter is the only student in the College of Health Sciences to be awarded the Lyman T. Johnson Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2021. She received the award for her outstanding research in the Rehabilitation and Health Sciences PhD Program.
California Native Finding New Blue Home at UK
October 11, 2021
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
Victorville is a city of about 115,000 people located in California’s San Bernardino County, 30 miles southwest of Barstow.
With high desert all around, mountains in the distance and more than one dusty museum devoted to Route 66, the town couldn’t be less like Kentucky if it tried.
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