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Transylvania partners with the state and LFUCG for Fourth Street improvements

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University and Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government plan to work together on a $1.3 million project to improve the West Fourth Street corridor from Upper to Jefferson streets. The work, which is expected to take place next year, will include new sidewalks, street and pedestrian lighting, signage, traffic and drainage improvements and further development of the Legacy Trail. The project will extend the look and feel of the previous streetscape improvements on Fourth Street alongside the school’s Athletics Complex between Jefferson Street and Newtown Pike.
 Transylvania will match 20 percent of a state grant paid for by federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds, which support innovative improvements to traffic flow and air quality. Lexington and Lextran received a total of $7.7 million from the CMAQ program.
 “These road and trail projects will help Lexington continue to strive to have a clean, healthy environment to support its strong quality of life for families and businesses,” former Gov. Steve Beshear said. Mayor Jim Gray also praised the funding. “These are the kinds of projects that improve quality of life in Lexington,” he said.
 The Transylvania community especially will benefit from the improvements because students often walk and bike along Fourth Street to reach the Athletics Complex.
 Previously the site of an abandoned tobacco warehouse, the sports venue is another example of how Transylvania has invested in developing this corridor—which connects not only the residents of north Lexington with downtown but

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Transylvania to mark Trans Day of Remembrance

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LEXINGTON Ky.—Transylvania University on Friday will participate in the Transgender Day of Remembrance with a public event featuring speakers, a reading of names of transgender people killed by violence in the past year, a candlelight ceremony and a resource fair. The event is part of the Lexington Trans Week of Awareness and Remembrance and coincides with the national observation, which is a time for education and advocacy. The university’s third annual remembrance ceremony on Friday will be at 7 p.m. in the William T. Young Campus Center Gym. “The Trans Day of Remembrance and Awareness honors the trans folks who lost their lives to violence in the past year,” said Zoey Peach, a Transylvania senior and event organizer. “In 2015, the murders of trans women of color have risen to epidemic proportions in the U.S. Our event seeks to honor and mourn their lives and other trans lives lost around the world and bring awareness to the issues trans folks face.” Day of Remembrance started as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman killed in 1998, according to GLAAD. “The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence that year and began an important memorial that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.” Other Lexington Trans Week of Awareness events: • Kickoff Dinner, Lexington Diner, 124 N. Upper Street, Monday, 7-9 p.m. • City-Wide Story Circle, University of Kentucky Blazer Hall, third floor,

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Transylvania to host renowned Spanish artists, poets

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University welcomed two prominent Spanish artists and poets to campus last week for their North American debut. Alexandra Domínguez and Juan Carlos Mestre visited classes at Transylvania and two public schools: Bryan Station High School and the School of the Creative and Performing Arts. They also gave a free, public reading of their work on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Transylvania’s Carrick Theater. Following the reading, a reception in Morlan Gallery featured “Swept Up in Whispers,” a colorful exhibition of their art books, etchings and paintings. Additionally on Nov. 12, the married couple gave an Art Talk at 12:30 p.m. in Morlan Gallery. This event also was free and open to the public. Domínguez and Mestre —who have presented together only once before—have exhibited their works throughout Europe and in South America. Domínguez, who was awarded the Gran Premio Nacional Salón Sur de Pintura in Chile, studied art at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Sant Jordi in Barcelona. Her poetry collections—including “The Conquest of Air”—also have won awards. Mestre is among Spain’s most acclaimed contemporary poets, winning recognitions such as Premio Adonáis and the National Poetry, National Literary Critics and Jaime Gild de Biedma awards. Though his principal medium is poetry, he is a self-trained artist, working especially with ink and watercolors and as a printmaker. ‘Swept Up in Whispers’ This exhibition is

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Transylvania packs big lectures into November

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—During the first two weeks of November, Transylvania will present four engaging lectures on a variety of topics—from the Dead Sea Scrolls to same-sex marriage to a Kentucky political history talk by U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell. All of the lectures are free, open to the public and in Carrick Theater, which is in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. First, on Wednesday, Nov. 4, professor Lawrence Schiffman will speak on “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Judaism and Christianity” at 7 p.m. “He is without peer, the leading international scholar on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century,” said Paul Jones, a religion professor at Transylvania. “The discovery of the Dead Seas Scrolls in 1947 revolutionized the way scholars now understand Judaism during the time of Jesus.” The talk is part of the Moosnick Lectureship in Judaic Studies. The next evening at 7 p.m., Schiffman will lecture on “The Bible and Its Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls” at Temple Adath Israel. On Thursday, Nov. 5, award-winning Detroit poet Jamaal May will give a reading at 5 p.m. His first book, “Hum,” won a Beatrice Hawley Award and American Library Association Notable Book Award and was an NAACP Image Award nominee. He has published two chapbooks, and his poetry has appeared in Poetry, The Believer, Ploughshares, New England Review and The Kenyon Review. He also is the series editor, graphic designer and filmmaker for the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook

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