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Nov 20 2023

KGS geologist accompanies landslide disaster assistance team to Sri Lanka

Geologist Matt Crawford, a landslide researcher at the Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) took discoveries from Kentucky landslides to international collaborators in Sri Lanka last month.

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Nov 20 2023
Is Black Friday shopping worth it? UK expert has ways to help you save

To help buyers make the most of the holiday shopping season, UKNow enlisted the expertise of Adam Craig, associate professor of marketing in the Gatton College of Business and Economics, who researches consumer behavior.
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Nov 20 2023
Recycle your cooking oil for biofuel research at the Gobble Grease Toss

If you’re frying a turkey this Thanksgiving you can drop off used cooking oil for free at Redwood Cooperative School, located at 166 Crestwood Drive in Lexington. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24.
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Nov 17 2023
CDC grant targets Kentucky’s tobacco-related health disparities

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant targeting tobacco-related health disparities has been awarded to Melinda Ickes, Ph.D., a UK College of Education professor of health promotion.  
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Nov 14 2023
UK researcher helps solve 60-year mystery inside heart, publishes in Nature

Kenneth S. Campbell, Ph.D., director of translational research in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the College of Medicine, has helped map out an important part of the heart on a molecular level.

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Nov 14 2023
UK researcher helps solve 60-year mystery inside heart, publishes in Nature

Kenneth S. Campbell, Ph.D., director of translational research in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the College of Medicine, has helped map out an important part of the heart on a molecular level.
Oct 16 2023
Sanders-Brown builds upon strong reputation in Alzheimer’s research, care and outreach

Throughout its four decades of existence, Sanders-Brown has built an international reputation for best-in-class research into a disease that kills more people every year than breast and prostate cancer combined.
Oct 13 2023
Discovery made from within 2,000 year-old Herculaneum scrolls

Brent Seales, computer science professor at the UK, (in partnership with EduceLab, the Library of the Institut de France and founders of the Vesuvius Challenge), presented a monumental breakthrough: for the first time in more than 2,000 years, text has been read from part of the still-closed Herculaneum scrolls.
Oct 6 2023
UK’s Parsons plays central role in 'reading the unreadable'

Stephen Parsons, UK Digital Restoration Initiative visiting scholar, has been using cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to read and uncover ancient texts, including the ever-challenging Herculaneum scrolls.

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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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Feb 9 2023
People Behind Our Research: An innate curiosity inspired Darwin Conwell's medical career

Curiosity and an eagerness to learn led Darwin Conwell, M.D., to a career as a medical pancreatologist. Now the chair of internal medicine, Conwell brings his passion for science and education to the College of Medicine and UK HealthCare.
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.

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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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Nov 16 2023

UK at the Half: AI reads text from 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls

In this “UK at the Half,” a University of Kentucky professor helps unlock ancient secrets — putting the university in the national and international spotlight.

Aug 7 2023
Discussing materials science in ‘Research Made Possible’

Alicia Gregory, director of Research Communications, sits down with four UK leaders to learn more about the recently announced eighth Research Priority Area in Materials Science and its connection to the Chips and Science Act of 2022.
Jun 8 2023
'Behind The Blue': Michael Cull and Tiffany Lindsay (Center for Innovation in Population Health)

Michael Cull and Tiffany Lindsey discuss the Center for Innovation in Population Health’s goals and how the College of Public Health hopes to utilize the Center to improve upon social determinants of health in the population, and more.
May 11 2023
'Behind the Blue': Gregory Hall (Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce)

Dr. Gregory Hall Hall discusses his new book about this ‘strategic triangle dynamic’ between the US, China and Russia, the impact that domestic policies in each country have on the bigger relationship, what both the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine tell us about future challenges on the world scene and more.

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

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