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University of Kentucky to disband diversity office after GOP lawmakers pushed anti-DEI legislation
The University of Kentucky's president says the school will disband its office promoting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Former Kentucky swimmers sue ex-coaches, AD Mitch Barnhart, alleging 'sexually hostile environment'
Two former Kentucky swim team members have sued the school, former coach Lars Jorgensen and athletic director Mitch Barnhart, alleging sexual assaults including rape by the former coach and claiming the school โpurposefullyโ disregarded multiple credible reports of inappropriate sexual relationships.
College swimmers, volleyball players sue NCAA over transgender policies
Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022.
Scientists hope device will help unravel Vesuvius scrolls
(CNN) - Scientists from the University of Kentucky say they're working to perfect a technique to digitally unravel fragile ancient texts that haven't been read in nearly 2,000 years. They hope to read scrolls buried by VesuviusThat technology is necessary to help do the immensely detailed work of trying to read scrolls preserved when Mount Vesuvius rained fire and ash on the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79. The scrolls remained buried in a villa in Herculaneum, believed to be associated with Julius Caesar's family, until they were re-discovered in 1752. Machine learning can help trace the inkWhile in England using the Diamond Light Source, Seales' team scanned four single-page fragments as well as closed-up scrolls. That's a process Seales and his team described in a May paper published in Plos One, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal.