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“Transformational Learning” is just that: deepening your knowledge of a given topic, changing the way you perceive it. That’s the focus of an interview by education contributor Cynthia Resor with Dr. Nicola Mason, Chair of the EKU Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership. | All about the Warriors Path project and its opportunities to expand knowledge about Native American life in the region while also boosting the economies of some Kentucky Trail Towns | We explore a report on the Work-From-Home trend, and another on the “fee and dividend” approach to reducing greenhouses gases linked to climate change | Our series on theatre production in Kentucky continues with a conversation with Louisville playwright and the Dramatist Guild Kentucky representative Brian Walker.

“Transformational Learning” is just that: deepening your knowledge of a given topic, changing the way you perceive it. That’s the focus of an interview by education contributor Cynthia Resor with Dr. Nicola Mason, Chair of the EKU Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership. | All about the Warriors Path project and its opportunities to expand knowledge about Native American life in the region while also boosting the economies of some Kentucky Trail Towns | We explore a report on the Work-From-Home trend, and another on the “fee and dividend” approach to reducing greenhouses gases linked to climate change | Our series on theatre production in Kentucky continues with a conversation with Louisville playwright and the Dramatist Guild Kentucky representative Brian Walker.

Students from Elizabethtown High School won a rave review in the Courier-Journal for their production of George Orwell's chilling dystopian sci-fi novel "1984." Now they're bringing the play to Lexington. | A new book is coming in late July from Eastern Kentucky University professor Travis Martin, an Iraq War veteran who founded the nation's first university-level Veterans Studies program at EKU. “War & Homecoming: Veteran Identity and the Post-9/11 Generation” explores ways a new generation of veterans is redefining what it means to come home. | It should be enough for one lifetime to be chased from your home country by war or persecution, but to find safe haven only to be uprooted again further deepens the trauma. Lisa Autry reports on how the refugee community of Bowling Green, KY has been affected by the tornadoes of last December | Opportunities to experience art have expanded in Lexington with the addition of Jeanette Tesmer to the staff at the Living Arts and Science Center where she will curate the center's various gallery spaces.

Students from Elizabethtown High School won a rave review in the Courier-Journal for their production of George Orwell's chilling dystopian sci-fi novel "1984." Now they're bringing the play to Lexington. | A new book is coming in late July from Eastern Kentucky University professor Travis Martin, an Iraq War veteran who founded the nation's first university-level Veterans Studies program at EKU. “War & Homecoming: Veteran Identity and the Post-9/11 Generation” explores ways a new generation of veterans is redefining what it means to come home. | It should be enough for one lifetime to be chased from your home country by war or persecution, but to find safe haven only to be uprooted again further deepens the trauma. Lisa Autry reports on how the refugee community of Bowling Green, KY has been affected by the tornadoes of last December | Opportunities to experience art have expanded in Lexington with the addition of Jeanette Tesmer to the staff at the Living Arts and Science Center where she will curate the center's various gallery spaces.

Preparations are underway at Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison Co. for the elimination of Sarin Gas projectiles. How it’s done and, although said to be very remote, what we need to know in the event of an accidental release into the open atmosphere. | A web-based effort to persuade young Eastern Kentuckians to join the battle against the disease that has ravaged their hometowns: cancer. A conversation with Dr. Nathan Vanderford at the Markey Cancer Center. | The emerging science of Neurogastronomy. It's all about food, smell and taste, why some of us like certain foods while others don’t, how science can harness these traits to prepare for a planet of 10-billion people by 2050 and why it’s all based at the University of Kentucky. | “You want to sell me what?” A story of entrepreneurial vision: High Bridge Spring Water at 40.

Preparations are underway at Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison Co. for the elimination of Sarin Gas projectiles. How it’s done and, although said to be very remote, what we need to know in the event of an accidental release into the open atmosphere. | A web-based effort to persuade young Eastern Kentuckians to join the battle against the disease that has ravaged their hometowns: cancer. A conversation with Dr. Nathan Vanderford at the Markey Cancer Center. | The emerging science of Neurogastronomy. It's all about food, smell and taste, why some of us like certain foods while others don’t, how science can harness these traits to prepare for a planet of 10-billion people by 2050 and why it’s all based at the University of Kentucky. | “You want to sell me what?” A story of entrepreneurial vision: High Bridge Spring Water at 40.

The idea of importing drugs from Canada to reduce prices in the U.S. is being floated in Congress and according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 80 percent of Americans like the idea. But there are concerns about the safety of imported drugs as we hear from Shabbir Imber Safdar, Executive Director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines. | The ravages of addiction play a central role in Wrecked, the latest young adult novel by Heather Henson. Tom Eblen gets details of the new book | Knox County Middle School is one of only four middle schools in Kentucky to be recognized as a “Bright Spot” school. We learn how it happened from Knox County Schools Superintendent Jeremy Ledford | “Nouveau old-time family string band” Corn Maiz is releasing a new album. Singer-songwriter Carla Gover joins us with some samplings | Pikeville gets ready to host “The Mountain Grrl Experience.” Robin Irwin of the Appalachian Center for the Arts has details.

The idea of importing drugs from Canada to reduce prices in the U.S. is being floated in Congress and according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 80 percent of Americans like the idea. But there are concerns about the safety of imported drugs as we hear from Shabbir Imber Safdar, Executive Director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines. | The ravages of addiction play a central role in Wrecked, the latest young adult novel by Heather Henson. Tom Eblen gets details of the new book | Knox County Middle School is one of only four middle schools in Kentucky to be recognized as a “Bright Spot” school. We learn how it happened from Knox County Schools Superintendent Jeremy Ledford | “Nouveau old-time family string band” Corn Maiz is releasing a new album. Singer-songwriter Carla Gover joins us with some samplings | Pikeville gets ready to host “The Mountain Grrl Experience.” Robin Irwin of the Appalachian Center for the Arts has details.

On this week’ edition of Eastern Standard: We’re working on a series highlighting the World music percolating in the many ethnic communities of central and eastern Kentucky. This week: Genaro Rascon, Jr., instructor of Mariachi and traditional Mexican music at Berea College | We hear the observations of Angie Wilcox, guidance counselor at Kirksville Elementary School in Madison County about the mental health of students and teachers in today’s challenging world | Dr. Alicestyne Turley takes us into the enlightening pages of her new book, The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad | Farmer-artist Arwen Donahue offers the back story on the rural lifestyle that influences the art featured in her book Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year

The arts have our undivided attention this week with an extended version of Tom Eblen’s chat with Lexington’s Ada Limón on her appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate. Bill McCann talks with Athens West founder/director Bo List about the theatre company’s decision to bring down the curtain. CivicLex Program Director Megan Gulla brings us up to speed on the efforts of the civic education organization to bring the influences of art to the workings of local government. Ali Blair joins us from Berea with details on the upcoming Levitt AMP Concert Series. And (drumroll, please), “Strained Pears”, our latest Ten Minute Radio Play starring KY Humanities Director and “Think History” host Bill Goodman, Berea College Theatre Chair Deborah Martin and EKU Theatre Instructor Alana Ghent.