July is Disability Pride Month where all whose identities include the demographic of disability are honored and celebrated. UK's Human Development Institute has a variety of resources and support systems for the disability community.
The commons and park in their current iterations were pitched in a design competition jointly hosted by the University of Kentucky, the UK College of Design and the Lexington Downtown Development Authority.
University of Kentucky alumnus and architect Eugene Poole Jr., a 2020 inductee into the UK Alumni Association's Hall of Distinguished Alumni, has three words of advice for students "stick to it." This motto would lead him to take on leadership of the U.S. Capitol Dome Restoration project in Washington, D.C., and work on other nationally iconic buildings.