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Former names | Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky (1865–1908) State University, Lexington, Kentucky (1908–1915) State University of Kentucky (1915–1922) |
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| Motto | "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" |
| Type | Publicland-grantresearch university |
| Established | February 22, 1865; 160 years ago (February 22, 1865) |
| Accreditation | SACS |
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| Endowment | $2.13 billion (2023)[1] |
| Budget | $8.4 billion (2024–25)[2] |
| President | Eli Capilouto |
| Provost | Robert S. DiPaola |
Administrative staff | 14,167 (2018–19)[3] |
| Students | 35,952 (fall 2024)[4] |
| Undergraduates | 25,586 (fall 2024)[4] |
| Postgraduates | 9,184 (fall 2024)[4] |
| Location | ,, United States 38°01′57″N84°30′09″W / 38.03250°N 84.50250°W /38.03250; -84.50250 |
| Campus | Large City, 784 acres (3.17 km2)[5] |
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| Newspaper | The Kentucky Kernel |
| Colors | Blue and white[6] |
| Nickname | Wildcats |
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| Website | uky.edu |
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TheUniversity of Kentucky (UK,UKY, orU of K) is apublicland-grantresearch university inLexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 byJohn Bryan Bowman as theAgricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky,[9] the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other beingKentucky State University). It is the institution with the highest enrollment in the state, with 35,952 students in the fall of 2024.[10]
The institution comprises 16 colleges, agraduate school, 93undergraduate programs, 99master programs, 66doctoral programs, and 4 professional programs.[11][needs update] It isclassified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[12] According to theNational Science Foundation, Kentucky spent $476.5 million on research and development in 2022, ranking it 61st in the nation.[13]
The University of Kentucky has seven libraries on campus.[14] The largest is theWilliam T. Young Library, a federal depository that hosts subjects related tosocial sciences,humanities, andlife sciences collections. Since 1997, the university has focused expenditures increasingly on research, following a compact formed by theKentucky General Assembly. The directive mandated that the university become a "Top 20" public research institution, in terms of an overall ranking to be determined by the university itself, by 2020.[15] Two alumni from the university have wonNobel Prizes.
In the early commonwealth of Kentucky, higher education was limited to children from prominent families, disciplined apprentices, and young men seeking entry into clerical, legal, and medical professions. As the first university in the territory that would become Kentucky,Transylvania University was the primary center for education. After a merger it became "Kentucky University".
John Bryan Bowman was appointed head of the new "Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky" (called "A&M"), a department of Kentucky University. It received federal support through theMorrill Land-Grant Act in 1865.[9] In 1866 it opened with 190 students and 10 professors, on the campus atAshland, The Henry Clay Estate.[16] In 1869James Kennedy Patterson replaced Bowman and the first degree was awarded. In 1876, the university began to offermaster's degree programs. In 1878 A&M separated from Kentucky University, which reverted to its original nameTransylvania University.[16] For the new school, Lexington donated a 52-acre (210,000 m2) park and fair ground, which became the core of UK's present campus.[16] A&M was initially a male-only institution, but began to admit women in 1880.[9]
In 1892, the official colors of the university, royal blue and white, were adopted. An earlier color set, blue and light yellow, was adopted earlier at a Kentucky-Centre College football game on December 19, 1891.[7] The particular hue of blue was determined from a necktie, which was used to demonstrate the color of royal blue.[7]
On February 15, 1882,Administration Building was the first building of three to be completed on the present campus.[16] Three years later, the college formed the Agricultural Experiment Station, which researches issues relating to agribusiness, food processing, nutrition, water and soil resources and the environment.[17] This was followed up by the creation of the university'sAgricultural Extension Service in 1910, which was one of the first in theUnited States.[18] Theextension service became a model of the federally mandated programs that were required beginning in 1914.[9]
Patterson Hall, the school's first women's dormitory, was constructed in 1904. Residents had to cross aswampy depression, where the now demolished Student Center later stood, to reach central campus.[9] Four years later, the school's name was changed to the "State University, Lexington, Kentucky" upon reachinguniversity status, and then to the "University of Kentucky" in 1916.[9] The university led to the creation of the College of Home Economics in 1916, andMary E. Sweeney was promoted from chair of the Department of Home Economics to dean of the college. (Later renamed the College of Human Environmental Sciences, this educational unit was folded into the College of Agriculture in 2003 as the School of Human Environmental Sciences[19]). The College of Commerce was established in 1925, known today as theGatton College of Business and Economics.[18]
In 1929,Memorial Hall was completed, dedicated to the 2,756 Kentuckians who died inWorld War I.[16] This was followed up by the newKing Library, which opened in 1931 and was named for a long-time library director, Margaret I. King.[16]
On March 15, 1948, Lyman T. Johnson applied to the University of Kentucky Graduate School for a doctorate degree in the Philosophy of History. Johnson was subsequently denied admission, with the registrar citing the previously passedDay Law. Johnson, citingPlessy v. Ferguson in 1896 filed suit against the university for wrongful discrimination and failure to maintain equal learning intuitions.[20] On April 27, 1949,Hiram Church Ford presided over the court case.[21] After one day of testimony, Ford determined that the Commonwealth had failed to establish a graduate school with equal opportunity and educational quality as the graduate students offered to whites.[22] Citing the Fourteenth amendment, Ford ruled that all qualified individuals, regardless of race, be allowed to attend the university's graduate program until an equally academically acceptable institution is established for the use of African Americans.[22] The university's graduate and professional programs became racially integrated in 1949 whenLyman T. Johnson, anAfrican American, won a lawsuit to be admitted to the graduate program.[23][24] Blacks were not allowed to attend as undergraduates until 1954, following the US Supreme Court'sBrown v. Board of Education decision.[25]
In 1939, Governor Happy Chandler appointed the first woman trustee on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, Georgia M. Blazer of Ashland.[26] She served from 1939 to 1960. In 1962, Blazer Hall was opened as the Georgia M Blazer Hall for Women in tribute to her.[27]
Ground was broken for the Albert B. Chandler Hospital in 1955, when Kentucky GovernorHappy Chandler recommended that the Kentucky General Assembly appropriate $5 million for the creation of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and a medical center at the university.[28] This was completed after a series of studies were conducted that highlighted the health needs of the citizens, as well as the need to train more physicians. Five years later, theCollege of Medicine andCollege of Nursing opened, followed by theCollege of Dentistry in 1962.[18]
Nine years after the founding of The Northern Extension Center in Covington, representing the Ashland Independent School Board of Education,[29] Ashland attorney Henderson Dysard andAshland Oil & Refining Company founder and CEOPaul G. Blazer presented a proposal to President Dickey and the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees for the university to take over the day-to-day operations and curriculum of the Ashland [municipal] Junior College, creating the Ashland Center of the University of Kentucky in 1957.[30] University of Kentucky Extension Centers in Fort Knox (1958), Cumberland (1960), and Henderson (1960) followed.
In 1959, thePatterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce opened and began training professionals at the master's and doctoral level for careers in international affairs.
Authorized by theKentucky General Assembly and signed by GovernorBert Combs on March 6, 1962, a mandate was placed upon the University of Kentucky to form a community college system.[16] Two years later, the board of trustees implemented the legislation and established the Community College System, creating centers inCovington,Ashland,Fort Knox,Cumberland,Henderson andElizabethtown. In 1969, thePatterson Office Tower was completed, currently the tallest building on campus.[citation needed]
In May 1970, students at the university began protesting theshootings at Kent State University.[16][31] In response, GovernorLouie Nunn deferred to theNational Guard in an attempt to disperse the protesters. AROTC building was destroyed by fire. TheLouie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries has 13 oral history interviews with participants in the protests, university officials as well as former governor Nunn.[31] Nine years later, the Singletary Center for the Arts opened, named in honor of former university president Otis Singletary.[16]
In 1997, theKentucky General Assembly reorganized the community college system, withdrawing the university's jurisdiction from all but the Lexington Community College.[16] The other colleges were merged with theKentucky Technical College system and were placed under a separate board of control.
On April 3, 1998, work began on theWilliam T. Young Library, which was the largest university project at the time of completion.[32] The six-level William T. Young Library was constructed on south campus and the largest book endowment among all public university libraries in the country.[33]William T. Young got his fortune from selling his peanut butter company toProcter & Gamble in 1955. Nine years after the completion of the William T. Young Library, on April 13, 2007, an entire city block of neighborhood homes were demolished and ground was broken for theBiological Pharmaceutical Complex Building, the largest academic building in the state of Kentucky, and one of the largest in the United States.[34]
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The Biological Pharmaceutical Complex Building complements the adjacentBiomedical Biological Science Research Building, and is expected to be part of the new university research campus.[35] Other recent announcements include the construction of the new $450 millionAlbert B. Chandler Hospital, which will was one of the largest projects in the state's history in terms of size and economic impact.[28]
In 1997, theKentucky General Assembly formed a compact with the university. The Top 20 Plan mandates that the University of Kentucky becomes a Top 20 public research university by 2020.[15] According to the compact, states with "Top 20" universities feature higher average household incomes, higher education attainments, healthier lives and more financial security.[36] The plan would also spur technological advancements due to university-based research and increase the marketability of the state to investors.
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The plan produced some results,[36]
In 2000, the university launched "The Campaign for the University of Kentucky", a $600 millionfundraising effort that was used to "enhance facilities, academic programs, public service, and scholarships."[33] It passed that goal and the effort was raised to $1 billion. In March 2007, $1.022 billion was raised, months before the fundraising effort was set to end.[38]
As of 2019, The University of Kentucky has an endowment of 1.407 billion.[39] Prior endowments were $831.8 in 2007,[40] $538.4 million in 2005, and $195.1 million in 1997, the rapid increases partially attributed to the "Top 20" Plan.[36] Currently, the William T. Young Library book endowment is the largest among public universities in the United States.[33]
In 2018, the new Gatton Student Center was opened on North Campus. The 378,000-square-foot facility contains a cinema, several dining facilities, ballrooms, a bookstore, bank, offices, and more.[41]
| Academic rankings | |
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| National | |
| Forbes[42] | 200 |
| U.S. News & World Report[43] | 132 |
| Washington Monthly[44] | 159 |
| WSJ/College Pulse[45] | 302 |
| Global | |
| ARWU[46] | 301–400 |
| QS[47] | 681–690 |
| THE[48] | 401–500 |
| U.S. News & World Report[49] | 356 |
Students are divided into 16 colleges, agraduate school, 93undergraduate programs, 99master programs, 66doctoral programs, and 4 professional programs.[11][needs update] The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus. The largest is William T. Young Library, afederal depository, hosting subjects related tosocial sciences,humanities andlife sciences collections. In recent years, the university has focused expenditures increasingly on research, following a compact formed by theKentucky General Assembly in 1997. The directive mandated that the university become aTop 20 public research institution, in terms of an overall ranking to be determined by the university itself, by 2020.[15] The university is ranked tied for 132nd in National Universities and tied for 60th amongpublic universities in the 2020U.S. News & World Report rankings.[50] According to theU.S. News & World Report 2023 ranking table, UK Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences is ranked 6th in the nation whereas the Graduate School of Medicine (Research) is ranked 64th (tie).[51]
Students are divided into several colleges based on their interests and specializations:
Other colleges no longer in existence at the University of Kentucky include the College of Library Science (separating out of the College of Arts & Sciences in 1968 and incorporated in 2003 into what is now the College of Communication and Information) and the College of Home Economics (created in 1916 and whose founding dean wasMary E. Sweeney) now a School of Human Environmental Sciences located within the College of Agriculture.[55]
The Honors Program at the University of Kentucky began in 1958. It offers interdisciplinary, seminar-style classes of 15–20 students each as well as "H-section" classes that accelerate common course offerings such as chemistry, biology, and physics.[56]
In October 2015, the University of Kentucky received the largest single gift in its history, $23.5 million from alumnus, longtime donor and successful entrepreneur Thomas W. Lewis and his wife Jan to create the Lewis Honors College.
The Lewis Honors College was transitioned from the Honors Program at UK in 2015. From 2017, the Honors Program became the Lewis Honors College. On July 10, 2017,Christian Brady was announced as the inaugural dean of the college.[57][58] Its headquarters are in Lewis Hall, which also serves as one of several residence halls for Honors College students.[59]
| Race and ethnicity[60] | Total | ||
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| White | 75% | 75 | |
| Black | 7% | 7 | |
| Other[a] | 7% | 7 | |
| Hispanic | 6% | 6 | |
| Asian | 3% | 3 | |
| Foreign national | 2% | 2 | |
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| Low-income[b] | 24% | 24 | |
| Affluent[c] | 76% | 76 | |
The University of Kentucky strives for a diverse and international student population, with a selective admissions process.
In fall 2014, there were 30,000 students enrolled for the first time. This is due in part by the high number of out-of-state students. The percentage mix of students at this time were 62% in state and 38% out-of-state. During this time, the freshman class was recorded at 5,000 students.[61]
The University of Kentucky Student Government Association (UKSGA) represents all undergraduate, graduate and professional students enrolled at the university in several critical ways. UKSGA exists to increase student influence over academic policy and to provide many helpful, creative and necessary student services. UKSGA also exists to protect and expand student substantive and procedural rights with the university and surrounding municipalities. Finally, UKSGA exists to better represent the student body in relations with faculty, administration, Board of Trustees and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.[62]
UKSGA includes an Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branch.
Several of their current programs include:
Several distinguished student body presidents include GovernorSteve Beshear.[71]
In the early twentieth century, a group called The Strollers consisted of performers either studying or employed at the university or nearby. They performed regularly at theLexington Opera House. In 1910, their first production there was the 1839 historical playRichelieu.[72] At the end of the spring semester in 1918, as World War I was nearing its end, they performed several skits about war life and then projected large photographic images "showing actual battle scenes" and the humanitarian work of theRed Cross. University girls dressed as nurses served as ushers.[73]
The first theater on UK grounds was the Campus Theater. In 1922, the university bought the Consolidated Baptist Church, a historically black congregation. The church's pastor had been Peter Vinegar. A group of performers and their benefactors, led by Carol M. Sax, raised more money to make the church into a theater, calling it Romany.[74] They performedThe Miracle of Sister Beatrice byMaurice Maeterlinck in 1927.[75] In 1928, it was renamed Guignol Theater, afterThéâtre du Grand Guignol in Paris, a theater on the Rue Chaptal from 1897 to 1962, housed in a former chapel and with seats for 293.[76] After leaving Lexington, Sax staged Arthur Wilmurt'sThe Guest Room on Broadway in 1931; it ran for a respectable 67 shows.Eleanor Roosevelt attended opening night of his production of I.J. Golden'sRe-Echo in New York in 1934; it ran for only 5 shows.[77]
Frank C. Fowler was the second director of the Kentucky Guignol; he had received his master's degree from Brown University in 1928 and was hired by UK that same year.[78] He was followed by Wallace Briggs.[79] The fire that gutted UK's Guignol in 1947 is captured on film.[80] In the 1930s and 1940s,one-act plays written by students were performed annually.[81] A new Guignol Theater was opened in the Fine Arts Building in February, 1950 with a production ofMedea.[82]Two Blind Mice, a political satire by Samuel and Bella Spewack, followed afterMedea.[83]
During the 1950s, plays performed at the Guignol would often go on tour throughout Kentucky in the summer months.[84]
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department was the home of one of the earliest college amateurradio stations in the United States, beginning withW4JP that began continuous operation prior toWorld War I.[85] In 1927, the station was relicensed as 9JL (later W9JL).[86]
Students currently run two independentFM stations. The first, 91.3 FMWUKY, is aTriple-A station and was the first university-owned FM radio station in the United States and Kentucky's first public radio station.[87] The operations started on October 17, 1940, asWBKY out ofBeattyville, although the station moved five years later to Lexington.[87]
In 1971, WBKY was one of the first to carry NPR's "All Things Considered" and helped debutNational Public Radio, changing its call letters to WUKY in 1989 to better reflect its affiliation with the university. In 2007, it became the first Lexington radio station to broadcast in high-definition digital radio.[87] The second is 88.1 FMWRFL-"Radio Free Lexington" which has been in operation since 1988.[88] WRFL is operated by students and broadcasts live 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and features music that is spread across most genres.
The campus is also served by theKentucky Kernel, a student-run, financially independent daily newspaper, with the first issue published in 1915.[89][90] The officialyearbook of the University of Kentucky is theKentuckian, first published in 1906.[16] TheKentuckian was preceded by at least one previous book, theEcho.
The University of KentuckyBlack Student Union (BSU) was established on February 17, 1968. They were the first organization on campus that was created to support and protect students of color. Their goal was to fight for change on campus for diverse students. They work closely with other organizations on campus such as the Student Activities Board, Student Government Association and various fraternities. Their main mission is to educate the campus community onBlack American students and to assist incoming minority students.[91]
Jim Embry, born inRichmond, Kentucky, was the founding member of the organization, as well as, the first elected president. 51 years later, Embry is still fighting for progress in the social injustices and systemic racism on campus.[92]
Nineteensororities and twenty-threefraternities representing over 3,000 students.[93] There are also non-Greek organizations on campus, likeAlpha Kappa Psi, a business fraternity andTau Beta Sigma, a band fraternity. In 2007, the UK paperThe Kentucky Kernel unleashed criticism and gained national attention for an editorial cartoon that depicted anAfrican American pledge being auctioned; it was a comment on racial segregation in UK's Greek system.[94]FarmHouse's chapter was suspended in 2021 for four years by the university, after apledge died while attending a party in the fraternity's house.[95] In 2023,Phi Tau was suspended for misuse of alcohol and other violations of law.[96]
University of Kentucky student-athletes compete as the Wildcats under colors Kentucky blue and white.
Beginning in the 1890s, students at the A&M scheduledfootball games with neighboring colleges.[97] In 1902, thewomen's basketball program began on campus,[97] and themen's team was added one year later. The "Wildcats" became associated with the university shortly after a football victory overIllinois on October 9, 1909.[7] The then-chief of the military department, Commandant Carbuiser, stated that the team had "fought like wildcats." The slogan was later adopted by the university, and a costumed mascot debuted in 1976.[7]
In 1930, then-high school coachAdolph Rupp was hired as a basketball coach and worked in that capacity for 42 years, retiring 1972.[16] During his tenure, he led the men's basketball team to fourNCAA championships in 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1958.[97] The Wildcats later won a fifth championship underJoe B. Hall in 1978, another in 1996 underRick Pitino and the next underOrlando "Tubby" Smith in 1998.[97] In 2007, the University of Kentucky namedBilly Gillispie as the head coach of the men's basketball team and on March 30, 2009, the university namedJohn Calipari as the head coach of the Wildcats. Calipari coached the team to its eighth national title in 2012.
The university boasts of numerous national championships, with its latest coming in spring 2021 in women’s volleyball for the fall 2020 season. UK also boasts of across country national team championship (women's, 1988), eight individual championships ingymnastics, anOlympic medalist intrack and field, and 24 national championships incheerleading. (Not an NCAA recognized championship)[33] After defeating number-one ranked Oklahoma 13–7 in the Sugar Bowl under legendary coach Bear Bryant, Kentucky was also a co-national champion for the 1950 season.
The University of Kentucky Dance team was ranked fifth in the nation inHip Hop and seventh inPom in 2015.[98]
Other athletic programs sponsored at the varsity level includebaseball, men's and women'sbasketball, men's and women'scross country running,football, men's and women'sgolf, women'sgymnastics, the coeducational sport ofrifle, men's and women'ssoccer, women'ssoftball, men's and women'sswimming anddiving, men's and women'stennis, men's and women'strack and field and women'svolleyball.[99] The school also has a popular club-level men'sice hockey team and a rugby program that competes at the Division 1 level.
The University of Kentucky football coach isMark Stoops, named the successor toJoker Phillips, who was the first African American football coach in Kentucky's history.
Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such ascommencement,convocation and athletic games is the University of Kentuckyfight song:On, On, U of K.[100] Additionally, the songKentucky Fight[100] is played before games.
In April 2024, aTitle IX sexual violence lawsuit was filed against the University of Kentucky which alleged that there was a "toxic, sexually hostile environment" within the university swim program during the timeLars Jorgensen was swim coach between 2013 and 2023.[101][102] The lawsuit further accused the university of "complicity" with Jorgensen and allowed him "to prey on, sexually harass, and commit horrific sexual assaults and violent rapes against young female coaches and collegiate athletes who were reliant on him."[101][102]
University of Kentucky partnered up withSouth Korean Esport OrganizationGen.G Esports andInternational Studies Abroad (ISA) to launch an international esports exchange programme inSeoul, South Korea.[103]
The University of Kentucky offers seven main dining facilities, 23 residence halls, and numerous recreation facilities spread between three distinct campuses: north, south, and central. It is also home to more than 250 student-run organizations.
The university campus is home to numerous notable structures, such asMain Building, a four-story administration building dating to 1882,[16] which was gutted by fire on May 15, 2001. ThePatterson Office Tower is the tallest building on campus.
The University of Kentucky once operated 14community colleges with more than 100 extended sites, centers and campuses under theKentucky Community and Technical College System, but relinquished control under thePostsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997.[104] The network of community colleges is now known as theKentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). Adjoining Lexington Community College, despite the reorganization of the community colleges, remained integrated with the university, but separated from the University of Kentucky in 2004 and became a part of KCTCS; it is now known asBluegrass Community and Technical College.
The College of Engineering currently operates a satellite campus inPaducah, located on the campus ofWest Kentucky Community and Technical College.[105]
The University of Kentucky is home to seven campus libraries.[14] Among them is the William T. Young Library, which houses a general undergraduate collection and social sciences, humanities, business, biology, and agricultural materials. The library is also aFederal Depository Library and apublic library for theCommonwealth of Kentucky.
The University of Kentucky has several noteworthy landmarks:
The university has more than 140,246 alumni in the state of Kentucky,[107] 216,737 in the United States,[108] and 1,119 internationally.[109] The University of Kentucky Alumni Association is the primary affiliation for former students and faculty, and is located at the corner of Rose Street and Euclid Avenue. The building, dedicated in 1963, is named for Helen G. King, the first permanent director of the association and a former "Miss University of Kentucky". The association also meets atSpindletop Hall, a large mansion along Iron Works Pike, which serves as a central alumni gathering point.[110]
The University of Kentucky boasts seven governors, including four formerGovernors of Kentucky:Steve Beshear,Ernie Fletcher,Paul E. Patton, andAlbert "Happy" Chandler;Chandler was also a formerU.S. Senator, and was the Commissioner ofMajor League Baseball from 1945 to 1951. Rounding out the other seven are the formerGovernor of OhioTed Strickland, formerGovernor of North CarolinaBeverly Perdue, and formerGovernor of ArkansasTom Jefferson Terral. FormerU.S. RepresentativeKen Lucas from the commonwealth's fourthcongressional district, and currentU.S. SenatorMitch McConnell are other government officials that called the university home.Kelly Craft (née Guilfoil), formerUnited States Ambassador to the United Nations andUnited States Ambassador to Canada, attended the university.
The United Methodist BishopAlfred W. Gwinn also attended the university.
Carol Martin "Bill" Gatton, an automobile dealer executive, was the donor of the largest gift ever to the university, and is the namesake for theGatton College of Business and Economics and theGatton Student Center. Paul Chellgren,Chairman andCEO ofAshland Inc.,[107] also attended the university, and is the namesake forChellgren Hall, formerly known as Woodland Glen I.
The university was also the home ofThomas Hunt Morgan, a scientist and winner of the 1933Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, andWilliam Lipscomb, 1976 winner of theNobel Prize in Chemistry.[16]Doris Yvonne Wilkinson was the first African American to graduate from the university as an undergraduate student in 1958, andJoyce Hamilton Berry, a former clinical psychologist, was the first female African American to earn a Ph.D. from UK in 1970. Journalist andMiss USA 2021Elle Smith, an African American, also attended the university.[111]
Actresses such asMiss Elizabeth,Ashley Judd, andAdunni Ade also attended the university.Randall Cobb, a wide receiver for theGreen Bay Packers;Josh Hines-Allen, a defensive end for theJacksonville Jaguars;Anthony Davis, a power forward and center forLos Angeles Lakers; andDerek Bryant, a former outfielder for theOakland Athletics from 1973 to 1981, are a few sports alumni from the university.[citation needed]Tyrese Maxey is a point guard for the76ers.[112]
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