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UK Honors Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Researchers

Jan 2, 2020, 8:25 AM

At UK's men's basketball game versus the University of Louisville on Dec. 28, UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Director Linda Van Eldik and researchers Pete Nelson, Donna Wilcock and Steve Scheff were recognized on the Rupp Arena floor.

Exercise Science Professor Mentors Students Focused on Health and Medical Careers

Dec 19, 2019, 1:29 PM

University professors like Marilyn Campbell know their students well, give them opportunities to be part of their research and provide mentorship on everything from personal issues to graduate school applications.

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UK OTC, Partners Receive Phase II Funding for Southeast XLerator Network

Dec 19, 2019, 1:24 PM

In October 2018, it was announced that UK and regional partners had received a federal NIH grant that could potentially total $3.5 million over three years to create a hub to accelerate the commercialization of biomedical technologies.

KGS to Study Deep Unconventional Oil and Gas Potential With U.S. Department of Energy Grant

Dec 19, 2019, 1:19 PM

The Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) at UK recently began work on a major research project to investigate the unconventional oil and gas potential of the Rogersville Shale formation in Eastern Kentucky and other related formations.

UK College of Pharmacy Researchers Uncover New Biomarker for Cardiovascular Disease

Dec 19, 2019, 1:15 PM

A new biomarker, uncovered by researchers in the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, could change cardiovascular care for patients with high risk of disease.

WATCH: How We Dreamed Boldly — Together — in 2019

Dec 19, 2019, 1:05 PM

What is possible? It is the question that drives and shapes everything we do at the University of Kentucky. It enables us to achieve what we call “wildly possible.”

Research Facility Embodies Promise to be the University for Kentucky

Dec 18, 2019, 8:20 AM

UK Research had much to celebrate in 2019, growth in research awards—up 25% from FY18 to FY19—to the largest grant in UK’s history, the $87 million HEALing Communities Study from NIH that aims to reduce opioid overdose deaths by 40% in three years.

Employers Key to Addressing Lung Cancer Disparity in Rural Kentucky

Dec 18, 2019, 8:15 AM

The UK College of Public Health, in coordination with UofL and the Kentucky Cancer Consortium, have created a worksite intervention on lung cancer, which targets work sites with predominantly male employees in eight rural and medically underserved counties in southern Kentucky.

$24 Million Partnership to Advance Next Generation Manufacturing Technologies in Kentucky

Dec 17, 2019, 8:12 AM

KY NSF's EPSCoR, has awarded UK, UofL and six other institutions across the state a five-year, $24 million grant to advance next generation manufacturing technologies, flexible electronics and robotics.

Bondada Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Dec 16, 2019, 8:25 AM

Subbarao Bondada, professor of microbiology in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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