Past Events

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Martin School Annual Frankfort Trip

Feb 9, 2023, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Learn more about careers in and around state government while networking with professionals and Martin School alumni. Students will tour the capitol building and meet with various policy professionals, including the Legislative Research Commission, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, members of the Governor's staff (budget, communications), and the Kentucky Center for Statistics. Please contact Brooke Kuerzi for questions.

Martin School Open House

Feb 7, 2023, 4:00 – 6:00 PM

Martin School Open House! Tuesday, February 7 from 4-6 pm in 445 P.O.T. Learn more about our in-person (MPA/MPP) and online (MPFM, NPM, PFM Certificate) degrees

Seminar: Lucas Taulbee, PhD Candidate

Feb 3, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Lecture Content TBD

Seminar: Dr. Annelise Russell

Jan 27, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Tweeting Scared: Congressional Crisis Communication and Constrained Capacity

2023 Spring Seminar Speaker, Dr. Jiahuan Lu

Seminar: Dr. Jiahuan Lu

Jan 20, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Jiahuan Lu, Rutgers University-Newark How Do Nonprofits Manage Profits? Preliminary Evidence from Nonprofit Hospitals

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Public Policy Preview Night

Nov 10, 2022, 6:00 – 7:30 PM

Public Policy is a new and exciting major that prepares students for meaningful careers in government, nonprofits, advocacy, law, research, and more! Join us at 6 p.m. in 375 Gatton Student Center to discuss our undergraduate program in public policy. You will meet with current students and faculty who can describe the career opportunities, internships, classes, and community that come along with a degree from the Martin School. If you are passionate about making positive changes for yourself and your world, come explore the versatility and challenge of a public policy degree!

VOTES Indonesia Changemakers arranging information sessions with UK MPA students

Oct 16, 2022, 5:30 – 6:00 PM

To register for a session, visit

Seminar: Bob Bifulco

Oct 14, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

This paper leverages new school-level finance data to estimate racial differences in exposure to low-income classmates and access to school funding across schools and school districts in U.S. metro areas. We begin by documenting within metropolitan area differences in average percentages of low-income students and in average per pupil spending for black, Hispanic, and white students. We consider the extent to which the disparities are due to differences across districts and to differences across schools within districts.

John Della Volpe: "Gen Z’s fight to save America" 2022 Ford Lecture

Oct 11, 2022, 4:00 – 5:30 PM

Join us October 11 in Gatton B&E's Kincaid auditorium for John Della Volpe and an interactive Ford Lecture!

Seminar: Dr. Anjali Adukia

Oct 7, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

October 7th 11 AM at Gatton B&E Room 127, please join us for Dr. Anjali Adukia. Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data and apply them, along with text analysis methods, to measure the representation of race, gender, and age in award-winning children’s books from the past century.

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