Lexington's Annual City-Wide Science Festival Everything is Science

Rupinder Kaur, a PhD candidate and student organizer for Everything is Science, was featured in a WKYT segment, where she discussed the events surrounding Lexington's city-wide science festival.

In an interview with UKNow, Dean R. Kip Guy and Michelle Pitts, a UK post-doctoral fellow, discuss the excitement and events surrounding Everything is Science 2022: The Elements of Life.

After a hiatus stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, Everything is Science returned in 2022. The new theme, The Elements of Life, highlighted how the elements make up everything around us. Presentations, lectures, and demonstrations related to the five elements focused on how earth, fire, wind, water, and heart contribute to everyday life.

Earth Sessions

• Guns, Germs, and Grasses: How Grass Cultivation Shapes Our World
• Probing the Relationship Between Diet and Gut Health
• What You Can't See...The Hidden Life of Soilborne Plant Pathogens
• Teaching About Science in a Global Pandemic, with Burnt Out Admins and Feral Students
• Earthbending
• Hasn't Everything Been Mapped? Measuring Space, Place, and Landscape on the Planet We Call Home

Water Sessions

• Hold Back the Water: Your Role in Sustainable Water Infrastructure
• Gulag Springs: Sacred Waters in Western Siberia
• What Lies Beneath: The Secret Laboratory of Wastewater
• Water Action: Community-Based Research for Change
• A Personal View of Kentucky's Drinking Water Evolution
• Facts and Possibilities: Water on Other Worlds

Heart Sessions

• Love, Compassion, and Other Vices
• The Epic Heart
• Papyrology and the Emotions
• The Beatles, Blue-Footed Boobies, and Bygone Imaging!
• Healing Racial Trauma
• Am I at Risk? Adverse Childhood Events and Disease Development

Fire Sessions

• Burn Emergencies
• A Nobel Song of Ice, Fire, and Touch
• The Doctor's Prescription for the Landscape, Fire!
• Fire on the Mountain and Under the Sea?
• Fire: How it Works and Why You Care!
• Spacecraft and Bourbon

Wind Sessions

• Why Do We Need Drones to Measure the Wind?
• Take My Breath Away: Using Breath Biomarkers for Lung Disease
• One Breeze at a Time: Evaluating the Equine Respiratory Tract in Motion
• Run Like the Wind: Stories of Famous Thoroughbred Racehorses and Retirement
• The Music in the Wind

Everything is Science, Lexington’s annual city-wide festival, is back with a new theme: The Elements of Life. Each event will feature engaging demonstrations and presentations related to the five elements, with conversations on how earth, fire, wind, water, and heart each contribute to everyday life.

The third annual Everything is Science festival took place from February 24-28 in 2020. With the event titled "Life in Technicolor," activities focused on various topics relevant to the color spectrum. Events were also color-coded, with titles like "We Heard it Through the Grapevine: Purple & Green in Science" and "It’s a Gray Area: Black & White in Science."

The second annual Everything is Science festival took place from March 4-8 in 2019. The theme was Opposites Attract and highlighted how science is all around us — pushing, pulling, and exerting opposing forces that keep the universe in balance. Presentations, lectures and demonstrations focused on the yin and yang of science.

The first annual Everything is Science festival took place from April 26-28 in 2018. A group of professors and students at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, along with community partners like Keeneland and AllTech, worked together to introduce the Lexington community to the science all around us. This kick-started what is now seen as a cherished yearly tradition at UKCOP.