Campus News

UK receives $150 million gift from The Bill Gatton Foundation to create arts district

By Jay Blanton
Dec. 2, 2025

The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees today accepted a $150 million gift from The Bill Gatton Foundation to construct a new arts district, including a new College of Fine Arts building and a several-hundred seat theater. The gift is the single largest in UK’s history.

Friday

Building the future: How campus construction projects come to life

A person wearing a bright pink safety vest and a pink hard hat stands inside an unfinished construction area, looking at a large building plan or blueprint taped to a scaffold.
Friday

UK’s Estate Whiskey Alliance expands to Scotland with Ballindalloch Distillery

Aerial view of Ballindalloch Single Estate Distillery, showing white stone buildings with slate roofs, surrounding paved drives, and green fields, set amid rolling hills, trees, and patchwork farmland under a bright sky.
Friday

Health Education Building project to impact Orange Route buses, parking areas

Graphic depicting traffic impact.
Friday

Wildcask Bourbon is back and better

Two bottles of Wildcask Bourbon with blue labels displayed on a white background.
Friday

The madness behind the belief: Superstition expert explains fan rituals

Fans in blue shirts hold a large blue banner overhead inside an arena.
Thursday

Baseline graduate stipends for fiscal year 2027 announced

A brick academic building with tall white columns and large windows stands under a bright blue sky. In the foreground, flowering tree branches covered in white and pink blossoms frame the right side of the image.
Wednesday

Capilouto: Listening tour critical part of search for UK Athletics leadership

A packed football stadium on a clear, sunny day, viewed from the stands behind one end zone. Fans wearing blue and white fill the stadium, many raising their arms, while the field stretches out toward a large scoreboard in the distance.
Wednesday

Candidate B for College of Nursing dean to participate in open forum

This is an exterior photo of the College of Nursing Building at UK, a multistory building with a white stone front lined with columns along a street with parked vehicles and a clear blue sky.
Wednesday

Upcoming parking and transit impact: University Drive

Photo of map showing the Huguelet Drive bus stop closure and a new temporary stop on University Drive.
Monday

Candidate A for College of Nursing dean to participate in open forum

This is an exterior photo of the College of Nursing Building at UK, a multistory building with a white stone front lined with columns along a street with parked vehicles and a clear blue sky.

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