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UK Launches $15 Million KeY Treat Study in Perry County

Jan 24, 2020, 8:23 AM

UK officials provided updates on the Kentucky Viral Hepatitis Treatment Project (KeY Treat), a three-year, $15 million study co-funded by NCI and NIDA with the ultimate goal of eradicating the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Perry County, KY.

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Appalachian Center Announces Spring 2020 Awards and Funding Opportunities

Jan 14, 2020, 8:53 AM

The University of Kentucky Appalachian Center is currently offering awards and funding opportunities for students and faculty involved with work and research in the Appalachian region.

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UK Fulbright Scholar Researches Anemia in Peruvian Children

Jan 9, 2020, 10:01 AM

Ana Maria Linares, associate professor in UK’s College of Nursing, traveled to Peru this past March 2019 to research the cause of iron-deficiency anemia in Peruvian children at the National University of San Luis Gonzaga.

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UK Program Inspires New Research in Women’s Health

Jan 3, 2020, 8:11 AM

Funded by NIDA and the Office of Research on Women’s Health at NIH, BIRCWH gives UK scholars training, collaboration and mentoring opportunities that enable them to develop independent research programs in women’s health.

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Center for Health Equity Transformation Seeks to Improve Health of All Kentuckians

Jan 2, 2020, 8:34 AM

People in Kentucky experience some of the highest rates of cancer, cardiovascular disease, substance use, diabetes and obesity in the nation. CHET seeks to improve the health of the most vulnerable residents of Kentucky and beyond.

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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. 

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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.

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UK Partnership to Engage Underserved Stakeholders in Eastern Kentucky

Dec 9, 2019, 8:14 AM

Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) Director William Haneberg and UK Assistant Professor Lauren Cagle in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies ​have received one of two grants recently awarded by NASEM.

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University Launches Economic Development Collaborative

Nov 27, 2019, 8:53 AM

UK has officially launched the UK Economic Development Collaborative (EDC) to set the strategy moving forward on how UK will address economic development in the areas of talent, innovation, place and partnership.

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New $1.2 Million Grant Prepares Early Childhood Educators, Applied Behavior Analysts

Nov 25, 2019, 8:34 AM

The University of Kentucky College of Education has received a $1.2 million grant to uniquely prepare school personnel who are in high demand — preschool teachers and applied behavior analysts.

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