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Historic $2.1 Billion Campaign Will Make a UK Education More Accessible, Accelerate Research and Care

This is the largest fundraising campaign in Kentucky's history. It will focus on funding more student scholarships and growing UK's endowment to continue support for providing a world-class education and essential research to address the state's most pressing challenges.

Barbara Nikolajczyk and the Inflammation-Diabetes Connection

With funds from NIH, Barbara Nikolajczyk is tracking the trajectory of type 2 diabetes. She's following metabolically healthy people as they naturally progress to diabetes, looking for potential drug targets along the way.

Innovative Research Could Result in a Billion More Being Fed

UK, together with two other major universities, is part of a major National Science Foundation research grant aimed at using biomechanics to substantially bolster grain production.

Connecting Kentucky Families: New Initiative Offers Virtual Support for Adoptive/Foster Parents

Undoubtedly, being a foster/adoptive parent can be demanding. Research indicates that caregivers often struggle to find support, especially in rural communities. On top of that, the number of children entering foster care in the Commonwealth continues to increase.

Carter Elected President of Society of Research Administrators International

Kim C. Carter, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, was elected as president of the Society of Research Administrators International.

UK Research Finds a New Threat to Monarch Butterfly Food

UK entomologists have identified what could be a major threat to the health of the monarch butterfly population.

UK’s CEDIK Brings Home National Award for Outreach

The UK-based Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky recently received a major national award for the effectiveness of its outreach programs.

UK College of Pharmacy to Host Symposium on Precision Medicine, Genomics, and Big Data

The University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy will host its ninth annual Therapeutics, Outcomes, Discovery & Delivery (TODD) Symposium from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, in room 124 of the Lee T. Todd, Jr. Building.

UK Study: Amphetamines Don't Improve Motor Recovery After Stroke

A pilot clinical trial exploring the benefit of d-amphetamine combined with physical therapy for stroke patients found no evidence that the regimen improved post-stroke motor recovery.

Horse Farm Sees Success from Pasture Renovations

Thanks to work being done at UK, pastures at an area horse farm are becoming healthier and so are their mares and foals.

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