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Dec 06 2018

UK Professor's Project Helps Astronomy Community Study the Stars

Since 1981, with continuous funding from NSF and NASA, UK astronomer Gary Ferland has used computing to better understand our universe. He developed Cloudy, a computer code that predicts how light is emitted so scientists can interpret the light received from celestial bodies.

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Dec 10 2018
UK OTC Hosts Site Leads Summit to Plan for the Southeast Accelerator Hub

The University of Kentucky’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) hosted leaders from 24 universities on campus for two days last week for a “Site Leads Summit,” the first planning session for the Southeast XLerator Network Hub.
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Dec 7 2018
UK Oral Historian Doug Boyd Receives Fulbright to do Research in Australia

Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to fund research in Australia as part of a project to expand the operability of the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer technology developed at UK.
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Dec 5 2018
UK, UNC Research Will Assist FDA in Making Opioid Regulatory Decisions

Svetla Slavova, Ph.D., associate professor of biostatistics in the UK College of Public Health's Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, will lead work that includes collaboration with the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) system, the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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Dec 4 2018
'Behind the Blue': UK’s Don Frazier Stays Forever Young Through Science Outreach, Research

Dr. Frazier is still involved with the UK Science Outreach Center, which he began and which is now named in his honor.

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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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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).
Sep 12 2018
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.
Apr 11 2018
Chad Risko Creates New Materials Using Computational Chemistry

UK computational chemist Chad Risko starts at the atomic level to design new materials for lithium ion batteries and electrical grid storage.

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Nov 14 2018
Kentucky Can Stem the Tide of Opioid Abuse and Addiction
Nov 6 2018
A Promise We Intend to Keep
Sep 6 2018
Carter Elected President of Society of Research Administrators International
Aug 23 2018
Mark Williams: Improving Hospital Discharge and Targeting Social Needs for Better Health

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Recent Reports

Dec 11 2018
RCTF Endowment Match Program 2017-2018 Annual Report
Oct 16 2018
Office of Technology Commercialization 2018 Annual Report
Apr 9 2018
UK Research Annual Report Fiscal Year 2017
Feb 23 2018
RCTF Endowment Match Program 2016-2017 Annual Report

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Podcasts

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Feb 01 2018

Exploring the Psychology of Drug Addiction with William Stoops

Hear how William Stoops chose drug abuse research, why mentoring is one of his favorite parts of his job, and why he sees the chance to do NIH-funded research as a privilege.

Dec 4 2018
'Behind the Blue': UK’s Don Frazier Stays Forever Young Through Science Outreach, Research

Dr. Frazier is still involved with the UK Science Outreach Center, which he began and which is now named in his honor.
Nov 26 2018
New NCI Grant Expands Markey’s Successful Oncology Training Program to High Schoolers

After successfully launching an oncology training program for Appalachian undergrads in 2016, the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center is expanding the program to include high school students.
Mar 6 2018
'Behind the Blue' with Orthopaedic Surgeon, Researcher and Advocate Dr. Carolyn Hettrich

Dr. Carolyn Hettrich joins Kody Kiser and Olivia Ramirez on Behind the Blue to discuss shoulder injuries, her research and her advocacy work.

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Dec 6 2018
UK Professor's Project Helps Astronomy Community Study the Stars

Since 1981, with continuous funding from NSF and NASA, UK astronomer Gary Ferland has used computing to better understand our universe. He developed Cloudy, a computer code that predicts how light is emitted so scientists can interpret the light received from celestial bodies.
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).
Nov 7 2018
Pilot-Scale Plant to Extract Rare Earth Elements in Heart of Coal Country

Professor Rick Honaker recently launched a pilot-scale processing plant aimed at recovering REEs from coal and its byproducts in Webster County.
Nov 1 2018
Study: Ultrasound Ovarian Cancer Screening Improves Survival

A University of Kentucky study just published in Obstetrics & Gynecology shows that annual ultrasound screening of at-risk asymptomatic women increases the survival rates of women with type I and type II epithelial ovarian cancer.

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