Famous Landmark: Watch Tower
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This is the University where I have my first degree. It is a very nice and peacefull University, although sometimes college party may go out of hand on the weekend. Where all the whites will evolve into wild animal. Chicks are cute at this University.
Over the years, UK has graduated a tremendous number of successful and award-winning individuals. These include distinguished scientists, politicians, business men and women, journalists, educators and more.
Among those graduates are several Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winners.
Nobel Prize
Thomas Hunt Morgan, BS 1886 & MA 1888, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1933
William Nunn Lipscomb, BS 1941, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A.B. Guthrie, BS 1950
Pulitzer Prize for Journalism
William (Bill) Niekirk, AB, Journalism (1960)--won in 2001, Chicago Tribune for exploratory reporting
Dana Canedy, BA, Journalism (1988)--won in 2000, New York Times for national reporting
Angelo Henderson, BA, Journalism (1985)--won in 1990, Wall Street Journal for feature writing
Michael York, BA, Journalism (1974)--won in 1986, Herald-Leader for investigative reporting
John L. (Jim) Hampton Jr., AB, Journalism (1959)--won in 1983, Miami Herald for editorial writing
Richard Whitt, BA, Journalism (1970)--won in 1978, Courier-Journal for feature writing
John Ed Pearce Jr., BA, Journalism (1968)--won in 1967, Courier-Journal for public service
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