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Jan 14 2019

Rare Earth Elements Support Renewable Energy Technologies

With funds from DOE, DOD and NSF, Jim Hower and Jack Groppo are locating and evaluating rare earth elements and processing coal-based materials, alongside industry and university partners.

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Jan 15 2019
UK Study Shows Promise Toward Prevention of Melanoma

In a study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a team of University of Kentucky researchers have discovered specific protein interactions that may help cells resist ultraviolet (UV) damage and carcinogenesis.
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Jan 14 2019
Martin School’s Zimmer Named One of Nation’s Top Education Scholars of Public Influence

UK faculty member Ron Zimmer is receiving national attention for his research relating to education.
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Jan 11 2019
Study Links Smoking During Pregnancy With Increase in Obesity Later in Baby's Life

Working with the UK Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a group led by Kevin Pearson in UK's Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences was able to identify a potential cellular mechanism that connects a mother's smoking while pregnant with an increased risk of offspring obesity later in life.
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Jan 10 2019
UK Professor Leads Effort to Develop World’s Largest, Most Inclusive 'Stellar Library'

Renbin Yan, an associate professor of physics and astronomy in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, is the principal investigator of the MaNGA Stellar Library project — the biggest and most inclusive star library ever made.

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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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Dec 21 2018
Sharing our Story in Washington, DC
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

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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

Podcast
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.
Nov 13 2018
'Behind the Blue': UK’s Alexander Vazsonyi Studies Factors Impacting Child and Adolescent Development

On this week’s episode of “Behind the Blue,” UKPR and Marketing‘s Carl Nathe talks with Alexander Vazsonyi, a professor in the Department of Family Sciences.

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Videos

Jan 14 2019
Rare Earth Elements Support Renewable Energy Technologies

With funds from DOE, DOD and NSF, Jim Hower and Jack Groppo are locating and evaluating rare earth elements and processing coal-based materials, alongside industry and university partners.
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.

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