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Combating Addiction is Focus of Fulbright Visiting Scholar Enrichment Seminar at UK

The University of Kentucky International Center, in cooperation with the Institute of International Education and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is hosting the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Enrichment Seminar: Combating Addiction, March 20-23, 2019.

KGS, UK Computer Science Collaborate on Sinkhole Machine-Learning Research

Kentucky is famous not only for having the world’s longest cave system (Mammoth Cave), but also for another geologic occurrence: sinkholes. Some sinkholes are dramatic, such as the one that occurred inside the Corvette Museum in 2014. They can cause property damage and pose a threat to human safety.

College of Social Work Launches Suicide Prevention and Exposure Lab

The College of Social Work (CoSW) at the University of Kentucky is turning words into actions by launching the Suicide Prevention and Exposure Laboratory (SPEL).

Michele Staton's Research Passion is Helping Incarcerated Women Address Substance Abuse

For International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we are highlighting women of UK. Researcher and Appalachian Kentucky native Michele Staton has a passion to help incarcerated women struggling with substance abuse.

Q&A With Erin Calipari

Erin Calipari, an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, recently visited the University of Kentucky to give a talk about her work in addiction research.

Program Offers Hepatitis C Screening for Patients in UK Emergency Department

While it isn’t typically the role of emergency medicine clinicians to identify chronic diseases, Dr. J. Daniel Moore, assistant professor of emergency medicine in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, knew it had to become their job.

Newly Created Open Access Journal Focused on Appalachian Health Now Accepting Article Submissions

The journal is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal with a mission of creating a healthy and thriving Appalachia.

Measuring Success: New Rankings Show UK Progress, Impact

New rankings have UK in the top 25 of public research institutions, and UK College of Medicine in the top 25 of all public medical schools in 2018.

Brent Seales Awarded NEH Grant to Rescue the Hidden Texts of Herculaneum

Brent Seales, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant for his groundbreaking project, "Reading the Invisible Library: Rescuing the Hidden Texts of Herculaneum."

UK CAER Grant to Investigate Utilizing CO2 as a Chemical Feedstock

The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) has received an $800,000 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to turn carbon dioxide into valuable products.

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