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Faculty, Staff & Scholars

The UK International Center supports faculty, staff and scholars at UK by inspiring global learning, sponsoring global operations and promoting international partnerships and research.

Global Learning

Find tools and opportunities to help you:

  • Internationalize your classroom
  • support international students
  • teach courses abroad
  • Global Engagement Academy
  • Global Health Initiatives

Global Operations

Learn more about:

  • Hiring and Hosting Int’l Faculty, Staff and Scholars
  • International Travel
  • Global Impact Awards
  • Coming to UK as an International Faculty, Staff or Scholar

Partnerships & Research

Find out about

  • Initiating an international partnership
  • current international partnerships
  • UKinSPIRE
  • Fulbright

 

Cultivating and advancing global learning, understanding, and connection by leading, supporting, and inspiring global engagement.

 

 

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International Partnerships

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Education Abroad programs offered in 70 countries

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News

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International Center releases Global Engagement Academy offerings for Spring 2024

Daniel Flener Feb 5, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 5, 2024) — As the University of Kentucky continues to become a more globally engaged campus, it is important that all faculty and staff have the opportunity to be informed about UK’s many international connections and to contribute to internationalization themselves.  

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Travel vaccinations now available at UK Pharmacist Care Clinic

Katie Florence Feb 2, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 2, 2024) — UK Retail Pharmacies now offers a new service to make preparing for international travel easier. The service provides travelers with all the required and recommended vaccines they need based on their destination. Travelers can prepare for their next trip abroad by receiving counseling based on their travel itinerary, as well as travel vaccinations, including:

Dr. Chris Barton in Australia

Fulbright awardee leads reforestation effort in Australia

Daniel Flener Jan 17, 2024

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 17, 2024) — For more than two decades, Chris Barton, Ph.D., professor of forest hydrology and watershed management in the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, has been conducting research related to environmental pollution and the restoration of degraded lands. Primarily focused on coal mines in Appalachia, Barton’s research recently expanded to a more global scale.

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