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Kentucky State University president served as keynote speaker for Small Farmers Conference
Kentucky State University President M. Christopher Brown II delivered a keynote address to hundreds of farmers from 10 states and 41 Kentucky counties Nov. 15 during the 2017 Kentucky Small, Limited Resource, Minority Farmers Conference held at Kentucky State. President Brown said his father was a sharecropper in South Carolina, but he never fully understood the role of small farmers until his presidency at Alcorn State University....
Eight Kentucky State University students earned awards at the 103rd Kentucky Academy of Science meeting
Kentucky State University students, faculty and staff earned top awards and gave compelling presentations at the 103rd Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) meeting at Murray State University recently. Eight students earned honors at the conference, which was attended by nearly 1,000 students, faculty and research staff from around the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Srijana Thapa Magar, Thomas Mason and Sathya Govindasamy earned first, seco...
Kentucky State University director to receive USDA Excellence in Extension award
Kentucky State University’s Louie Rivers Jr. will receive the 2017 Excellence in Extension Award – a prestigious national recognition for extension workers with visionary leadership, a track record of excellence in programming and positive impacts on their community. The award, which has been presented since 1991, is given by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the Assoc...
Kentucky State University honored military members at Veterans Day assembly
A special Veterans Day assembly was held Thursday, Nov. 9 at Kentucky State University to pay homage to all military members. De’Marcus Hopson, military student services coordinator/veterans affairs liaison, spoke on the occasion. “Veterans Day is a time to reflect on those who have served this great country,” Hopson said. Emma Metcalf, the Lexington VA medical center director, recognized the importance of female veterans, in her p...