“A Way With Words” co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett will be in Lexington for the 2025 Kentucky Book Festival. Barnette, a UK graduate, fills us in on the origins of the highly popular call-in public radio show about language. It’s heard across the country and around the world by broadcast and podcast. Barnette fields questions provided by the EKU English faculty as well as friends on Facebook.
Nothing less than our way of knowing things is in for an update and an overhaul at EKU and many other universities and colleges across the nation. EKU Psychology Professor Matthew Winslow tells us about the work of the university’s Essential Education Transformation Committee and a proposal to break down the silos of “General Education” — the college courses that introduce students to fundamental ideas and intellectual activities in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences — in favor of cross-pollinating disciplines.
Rebecca Egan McCarthy, a climate news reporting fellow at GRIST, discusses the idea of tapping vast deposits of Hydrogen under much of the Midwest as a source of energy.
What did Margaret Ingles of Paris, Ky. have to do with the invention of home air conditioning? Find out in this latest in our series of conversations with Lexington History Museum executive director Mandy Higgins.
