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Side by side portrait photos of Ikhwan Kweon and Tangchen Liu, who are both Martin PhD students.

2025 Fall Seminar Series Seminar: Ikhwan Kweon & Tangchen Liu University of Kentucky

Oct 10, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Events, Seminars, Lectures

Direct vs. Representative Democracy in the Design of Tax and Expenditure Limits Presenter: Ikhwan Kweon

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BA in Public Policy Open House

Nov 3, 2025, 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Events, Events, Undergraduate

High school students and transfer students are invited to join us in the newly renovated Miller Hall to learn more about the BA in Public Policy degree at the University of Kentucky Martin School of Public Policy and Administration. 

Portrait photo of Dr. Benjamin Brunjes

2025 Fall Seminar Series Seminar: Benjamin Brunjes University of Washington

Oct 3, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Events, Seminars, Lectures

The “Rule of Two” and Federal Contract Set-Asides: The Effect of Kingdomware vs. U.S. on Contract Spending

Portrait photo of Dr. John Stavick

2025 Fall Seminar Series Seminar: John Stavick University of Tennesee, Knoxville

Sep 26, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Events, Seminars, Lectures

Public Employee Furloughs as a Budget Balancing Strategy: Evidence of Effects on Employees

Singletary Center

2025 Ford Lecture: "Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) in College Athletics: Untangling Public Policy Issues and Implications"

Oct 13, 2025, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Events, Seminars, Lectures, Public Service

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 11, 2025) — The University of Kentucky's 2025 Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Lecture will take on a subject that is reshaping virtually every aspect of the college sports landscape — the business phenomenon that gives student-athletes the right, for the first time ever, to be compensated for use of their name, image and likeness (NIL).

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Upcoming Events

Seminar: Ikhwan Kweon & Tangchen Liu

Oct. 10, 11:00am–12:30pm

PAHA 218

2025 Ford Lecture: "Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) in College Athletics: Untangling Public Policy Issues and Implications"

Oct. 13, 5:30–7:00pm

Singletary Center Recital Hall

BA in Public Policy Open House

Nov. 3, 1:00–3:00pm

Miller Hall, 2nd Floor, UK Main Campus

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