TEK

We know that profound solutions to society’s most complex problems often are found through the collaboration of disciplines, or a transdisciplinary approach to education, research and service. 

TEK helps our students today and Kentucky’s workforce tomorrow. To do this, students learn leadership and employability skills, gain experience through team-based approaches, and work with experts from disciplines across the institution and community — in areas such as business, humanities, and math and natural science — to solve Kentucky’s biggest problems while gaining essential employability skills.  

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Provide opportunities for students to learn essential workforce skills in newly created and refreshed undergraduate courses

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Leverage faculty expertise to expand the use of transdisciplinary approaches in undergraduate courses across the University

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Link the transdisciplinary skills students are learning to Kentucky workforce needs

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Location Detail: 1-1A William T. Young Library
Email: uk.tek@uky.edu
Phone: 859-218-7168

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TEK Faculty Fellows Awarded Sustainability Challenge Grant for Student-Run Food Recovery Initiative

Jan 6, 2026

TEK Faculty Fellows, Krista Jacobsen and Muzhen Li, along with a transdisciplinary team of faculty from across UK, have been awarded a Sustainability Challenge Grant for an innovative project that transforms cosmetically imperfect—but fully edible—produce into valuable learning and community resources.

TEK Faculty Fellow Highlights the Transdisciplinary Nature of Kentucky’s Equine Economy on Freakonomics Radio

Dec 1, 2025

Dr. Jill Stowe, University of Kentucky professor and TEK Faculty Fellow, was recently featured on Freakonomics Radio episode 652, “Inside the Horse-Industrial Complex.” In this episode—part of the podcast’s series The Horse Is Us—Stowe explains the economic forces that make Kentucky the global hub for the thoroughbred industry. Drawing on more than 15 years of research in equine markets and behavioral economics, she discusses how Kentucky’s dense network of breeding farms, veterinarians, transporters, farriers, and auction houses forms a powerful “economic cluster” that shapes the modern horse industry and unites multiple fields around one focus: the horse.

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