Thursday | October 16, 2025

Echoes of Life: Lessons from the Dying Brain

with neuroscientist Dr. Ajmal Zemmar
in conversation with Jenni Laidman

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Sep 22, 2025

PRESS RELEASE: Kentucky to the World Partners with Gatton Academy to Host Globally Recognized Neuroscientist

Sep 22, 2025

Sep 18, 2025

PRESS RELEASE: Kentucky to the World Hosts Globally Recognized Neurosurgeon Dr. Ajmal Zemmar in Republic Bank Foundation Speaker Series

Sep 18, 2025

Aug 21, 2025

KTW Founder honored in New York Times Obituary

Aug 21, 2025

Aug 7, 2025

PRESS RELEASE: Kentucky to the World names new interim executive director for Louisville nonprofit

Aug 7, 2025

Jul 9, 2025

The Soulful Sounds of Derbytown Premiering on KET 7/15/2025

Jul 9, 2025

Jun 23, 2025

Tom O’Connell - This Is the Way: Stagecraft, Stunts and Fighting on Screen is now on KET

Jun 23, 2025

Carol Wyatt: 35 Years of TV Animation and Film is now on KET

Jun 23, 2025

Oct 24, 2024

A Pathway Forward

Oct 24, 2024

Feb 1, 2024

Basketball & Brotherhood: Breaking Barriers is Available to Stream

Feb 1, 2024

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Sep 17, 2025

Lessons From the Dying Brian: Dr. Ajmal Zemmar’s Unplanned Scientific Breakthrough

Sep 17, 2025

Coming to Louisville was never part of the plan for Dr. Ajmal Zemmar. But then again, neither was his biggest scientific breakthrough.

Sep 17, 2025

Aug 7, 2025

Civic Imagination Spotlight: Evelyn Pollard-Gregory

Aug 7, 2025

Evelyn R. Gregory is a Cinematography and Video Production educator based in Louisville, KY. She earned her undergraduate film degree from the historic Alabama A&M University and holds both a Master of Fine Arts and a Master of Science while residing and teaching in Kentucky. She describes herself as “just a kid from Cleveland with a passion for storytelling.”

Aug 7, 2025

Jul 21, 2025

One Place, Many Stories: Challenging the Myth of “White Appalachia”

Jul 21, 2025

Appalachia is not a monolith.

It’s a sentiment shared time and time again, from news organizations centered on the Black experience in West Virginia to works of fiction based in the reality of growing up Indigenous in North Carolina. Over 20% of the Appalachian population is nonwhite - including Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous folks, as well as many other races and ethnicities - and the region has become increasingly diverse since 2010. And yet, mainstream representations of the region almost always look the same: white.

Jul 21, 2025