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Richard Taylor, who is a Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University and a former Kentucky poet laureate, has won a Kentucky Historical Society Publication Award for his book “Elkhorn: Evolution of a Kentucky Landscape.”
Transylvania University will welcome virtuoso classical accordionist Mihoko Goto to campus Wednesday for a Japanese-American Crossover concert.
The Transylvania University community delights in the tale of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque — the drama, the curse, the crypt. And with his 236th birthday being today, and this year being the bicentenary of his arrival on campus, let’s take the opportunity to reflect on the ardent, multi-dimensional fellow behind the caricature.
Transylvania University on Oct. 22 will participate in a nationwide day of readings from recipients of the longest running poetry award in the country — Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Science raises interesting questions about what we’re able to know. Does it describe only how things appear to us? Or does it describe reality itself? Peter S. Fosl, a Transylvania University philosophy professor, tackles topics like this in his upcoming book “Hume’s Scepticism.”
