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The 2023 Great Teacher Award winners were honored during an on-court recognition during the UK-Arkansas game Tuesday, Feb. 7, at Rupp Arena.

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Feb 08 2023

2023 Great Teacher Award winners honored

The 2023 Great Teacher Award winners were honored during an on-court recognition during the UK-Arkansas game Tuesday, Feb. 7, at Rupp Arena.

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Feb 8 2023
Markey research seeks to understand Appalachia’s childhood cancer disparity

After discovering that pediatric brain cancer incidence rates were higher among children in Appalachia, Markey Cancer Center's Eric Durbin launched a number of research projects to try to uncover the cause.
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Feb 8 2023
New grant helping research team engineer better mental health solutions

A group of University of Kentucky researchers received a new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to continue a critical mission: improving mental health solutions for engineering students.
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Feb 8 2023
CAER facility expansion enhances UK’s cement research capabilities

A U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center grant has provided the Center for Applied Energy Research with funding to expand its renowned cementitious materials research and development facility.
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Feb 8 2023
Opportunities open for students interested in summer research

The Office of Undergraduate Research is now accepting proposals for two summer research fellowship programs: the Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Fellowship and the Sustainability Summer Research Fellowship.

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Feb 8 2023
CAER facility expansion enhances UK’s cement research capabilities

A U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center grant has provided the Center for Applied Energy Research with funding to expand its renowned cementitious materials research and development facility.
Feb 8 2023
2023 Great Teacher Award winners honored

The 2023 Great Teacher Award winners were honored during an on-court recognition during the UK-Arkansas game Tuesday, Feb. 7, at Rupp Arena.
Nov 29 2022
'There's so much more to learn' — UK student Princess Agbozo blazes her own trail

Originally from Ghana, first-generation student Princess Magor Agbozo came to the University of Kentucky with a desire to help others. Now a junior in the UK College of Public Health (CPH), Agbozo feels that she has grown over the past few years as a student.
Nov 16 2022
UK orthopaedic surgeon receives grant to study knee injuries, osteoarthritis

Austin Stone was recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine for a two-year study on posttraumatic osteoarthritis in knees and therapies for prevention.

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Series Spotlight People Behind Our Research

Why do we want you to meet our researchers?

The scientists and scholars at the University of Kentucky are remarkable people. Some of them have a very personal connection to field they have chosen: a family member battling addiction or disease. Some of them began their journey based on curiosity. A drive to find out why the world works the way it does.

What they all have in common is a passion to ignite progress and partner across fields and with communities to confront, head on, the most profound challenges. Research can do that, and our researchers tell you why and how.

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May 18 2022
People Behind Our Research: Ilhem Messaoudi Decoding the Mysteries of the Immune System

UK College of Medicine researcher Ilhem Messaoudi, Ph.D., has dedicated her career to developing a better understanding of how the immune system works, paving the way for improving how people respond to vaccines and infections.
Feb 1 2022
Nancy Schoenberg: Listening to Communities to Create Equitable Solutions

The best solutions begin by listening to the people whose problems you’re trying to solve. That community-based focus has been a guiding value of Nancy Schoenberg's 25 years at UK.
Feb 19 2020
Ann Stowe: Understanding Stroke Recovery

In this edition of People Behind Our Research, UK's Ann Stowe explains her work to understand how inflammation after stroke can be shaped to support rewiring in the brain and recovery of function that might be lost with injury.

Research Blog

Jun 7 2022
Research Leadership Academy Participants Announced
May 10 2022
Cancer in Kentucky: Why Research Matters
Mar 30 2022
Female Patent Holders Spotlight Commercialization at UK
Mar 8 2022
Research Celebrates Women Making History

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Feb 07 2023

'Behind the Blue': UK psychology professor Matt Southward on the struggle with ‘winter blues’

On this episode of "Behind the Blue," Matt Southward, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, discusses the signs and symptoms of winter blues.

Jan 26 2023
'UK at the Half': GEN-EV program teaches kids team-building, STEM

The GEN-EV program teaches Kentucky students engineering and team-based skills while they work on an exciting project — building and racing an electric car.
Jan 17 2023
'UK at the Half': UK researcher focused on helping Kentuckians gain better quality of life

For this "UK at the Half," Austin Stone, M.D., Ph.D., in UK's College of Medicine discusses his work toward a comprehensive understanding of posttraumatic osteoarthritis in knees and therapies for prevention, and how cartilage and other joint tissues respond to injury.
Jan 13 2023
'UK at the Half': Igniting discovery

For this "UK at the Half," we talk with Clare Rittschof, Ph.D., associate professor of entomology in the  College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, about why she has an “open door” policy in her labs for students.

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Recent Reports

Oct 14 2022
UK Research Annual Report Fiscal Year 2020 and Fiscal Year 2021
Jan 12 2022
RCTF Endowment Match Program 2020-2021 Annual Report
Jun 17 2021
RCTF Endowment Match Program 2019-2020 Annual Report
Aug 5 2020
UK Research Annual Report Fiscal Year 2019

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