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Nov 21 2019

Opportunity to Join Research Team Transforms UK Students’ Careers

When students come to the UK, they discover many opportunities that ignite their passion. For Kyra Seevers, Kristina Gessel and Stephen Parsons, that opportunity was undergraduate research.

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Dec 13 2019
4 UK Technologies Pitched to Entrepreneurs at Founder Hunt

The UK Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) worked with four UK innovators to pitch their technologies at the inaugural Founder Hunt event at Churchill Downs in Louisville.
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Dec 12 2019
Decade After Leaving, Grad Returns for 2 Degrees

“I saw that there was a mandatory research component, which was a big deal for them and myself. The agricultural biotechnology program emphasizes the independent research project. So, I signed up. It was one of the best decisions I have ever made."
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Dec 9 2019
UK Partnership to Engage Underserved Stakeholders in Eastern Kentucky

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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Dec 9 2019
Fulbright Seminar to Continue Conversation Surrounding Addiction, Recovery

UK is bringing 90 scholars, in diverse academic and scientific disciplines from over 40 countries, to campus in hopes of continuing the conversation surrounding addiction and recovery.

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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 23 2019
Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf and the Epigenetics of Cancer

Could people in Eastern Kentucky, whose primary water sources have high levels of arsenic, take zinc to prevent cancer? Cancer epigeneticist Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf says her data points to this non-invasive fix.
Mar 8 2019
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.
Dec 4 2018
UK Physiologist Uses Biomechanics to Understand Lung Healing

With funds from NIH, Chris Waters is studying the biomechanics of lung healing to help patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).

Research Blog

Nov 14 2019
Shaping Our Appalachian Region, A Brighter Future for the Commonwealth.
Aug 1 2019
Record-breaking Research Awards Power UK Innovation
Apr 26 2019
Collaboration Key to Defeating Opioid Epidemic
Apr 24 2019
RX Summit Shines Light on Opioid Epidemic with Rogers’ Leadership

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Recent Reports

Dec 10 2019
RCTF Endowment Match Program 2018-2019 Annual Report
Apr 19 2019
UK Research Annual Report Fiscal Year 2018
Dec 11 2018
RCTF Endowment Match Program 2017-2018 Annual Report
Oct 16 2018
Office of Technology Commercialization 2018 Annual Report

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Podcasts

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Oct 24 2019

'Behind the Blue': April Young Works With Eastern Kentucky Communities to Find Answers to Opioid Epidemic

With more than $5.5 million in funding, the research team in CARE2HOPE is working in counties across Kentucky to find answers to the opioid epidemic.

Nov 22 2019
'Behind the Blue': UK Researcher Jennifer Havens Works to Develop Treatment for Hepatitis C

UK is tackling many of Kentucky’s toughest health issues through research aimed at making documented, measured progress. In this edition of the Behind the Blue Podcast, Carl Nathe talks with Havens about a project to combat Hepatitis C.
Oct 25 2019
Training Kentucky Students in Cancer Research to Impact Communities

The ACTION program offers undergraduates and high schoolers the opportunity to gain cancer research, clinical, outreach and educational experiences in an effort to enrich their interest in a cancer-focused career.
Oct 3 2019
'Behind the Blue': How UK, State Partners Are Working to Help Incarcerated Women With Opioid Use Disorder

The Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) supports research on quality addiction treatment for OUD in criminal justice settings nationwide.

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Videos

Nov 7 2019
UK Military Researcher Explores Ways to Prevent Chronic Pain

Van Wyngaarden’s research at UK is inspired by his time at the Center for the Intrepid: he’s studying the potential for chronic pain in patients who have suffered a significant lower extremity fracture that required surgery.
Oct 17 2019
UK Partners With Bourbon Industry Leaders to Map White Oak Genome

Seth DeBolt leads the genome mapping team that includes the University of Tennessee, Pennsylvania State University and the U.S. Forest Service. They are collecting grafts and acorns from the "46 Tree" to begin the research.
Oct 10 2019
UK's Brent Seales Using Light Brighter Than the Sun to Read Herculaneum Scrolls

The UK Digital Restoration Initiative in the College of Engineering has been working to perfect a technique to non-invasively recover the 2,000-year-old fragile papyri.
Sep 26 2019
How a South Indian Script is Changing the Way Science Views Parasite

A unique partnership between an engineer and a scientist at UK has produced data that is challenging prevailing wisdom about a potentially fatal parasite.

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