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11 UK Students Selected for Fulbright Honors

May 30, 2019, 9:24 AM

The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that seven recent UK graduates and four doctoral students have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships.

UK HealthCare Implements New Suicide Screening Protocols for Patients

May 30, 2019, 9:21 AM

On May 28, 2019, the UK Emergency Department began utilizing the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale at both UK HealthCare Albert B. Chandler and Good Samaritan Hospitals. This screening tool is used to collect information on an individual's risk factors.

'Behind the Blue': UK Anthropologist Dick Jefferies’ Fascinating Work

May 29, 2019, 8:57 AM

Anthropology is the study of human culture in the past and the present. University of Kentucky Professor Richard "Dick" Jefferies is now in his fourth decade as a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology, within UK’s College of Arts and Sciences.

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Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf and the Epigenetics of Cancer

May 23, 2019, 9:44 AM

Could people in Eastern Kentucky, whose primary water sources have high levels of arsenic, take zinc to prevent cancer? Cancer epigeneticist Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf says her data points to this non-invasive fix.

NEH to Fund Digitization of Sacred Music Collection at Niles Center

May 22, 2019, 8:54 AM

University of Kentucky's John Jacob Niles Center for American Music is home to one of four archives of sacred music that will benefit from the Sounding Spirit initiative's second grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support pioneering work in digital scholarly editions.

Brent Seales Awarded Prestigious Mellon Grant, Poised to Solve 2,000-Year-Old Mystery

May 21, 2019, 10:26 AM

Thanks, in large part, to a $2 million Mellon Grant, Brent Seales finally has the access, funding and approach needed to read the Herculaneum scrolls.

Markey, LLS Host Eighth Annual “Meet the Researchers” Day

May 21, 2019, 10:25 AM

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) recently hosted their eighth annual “Meet the Researchers” Day. This event is a field trip given as a prize to two schools in the region who successfully raised more than $1,000 for the LLS’s Pennies for Patients campaign.

UK Biology Researcher Receives Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career-Starter Grant

May 17, 2019, 8:48 AM

Oliver Voecking, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Kentucky Department of Biology in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, recently received a Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career-Starter Grant for his retinal research with zebrafish.

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Art History, Jewish Studies Researchers Take UK Libraries Awards for Undergrad Scholarship

May 17, 2019, 8:46 AM

University of Kentucky Libraries awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Scholarship to art history and visual studies senior Emily Hedges and biology and Lewis Honors College junior Hannah Thompson at the UK Libraries Spring Gala.

Project Aims to Eradicate Hepatitis C in Perry County

May 16, 2019, 8:39 AM

Jennifer Havens has spent the past decade studying the transmission of infectious disease and advocating for the expansion of harm reduction programs. That work entails understanding the link between two health burdens facing the nation, the opioid crisis and cancer.

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