Savyon Duke's feet barely touched the ground the entire 24 hours of DanceBlue. If he wasn't being carried around on the back of Alpha Phi Omega team members, he was busy running around Memorial Coliseum playing games and talking with the many people that were happy to see him there again for another year.
Earlier in his career, Henry Petroski never thought of writing a book because "it's just not something an engineer does." Since then, Petroski has written 13 books. The nationally recognized expert in engineering and structural failure said that writing helped him to discover a lot about his profession.
The UK logo replaced Abraham Lincoln on the face of pennies on Saturday as the annual Engineers Day highlighted creative technologies with more than 100 exhibits. Janet Lumpp, an electrical and computer engineering associate professor, helped kids use laser systems to draw the UK logo on the coins during the College of Engineering's E-Day, which closed out National Engineers Week.
DanceBlue raised nearly $425,000 during the 24-hour dance marathon on Friday and Saturday, but the opportunity to donate to UK Children's Hospital isn't over. Lexington-based musician Nathan Morris performed Friday night as part of DanceBlue, and agreed to donate 20 percent of the proceeds from his music and merchandise sold in February and March to the Golden Matrix fund, which directly benefits the hospital's Pediatric Oncology Clinic.
The Stuckert Career Center will host the annual Spring Career and Internship Expo tomorrow and Wednesday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Student Center Grand Ballroom. The career fair is open to all students and UK alumni and is a great chance to meet potential employers and find summer internship, co-op and full-time positions, said Sue Strup, director of experiential education and career services at the Career Center.