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Professor Guoqiang Yu, and collaborators Dr. Elie G Abu Jawdeh and Dr. Henrietta S Bada, have been awarded a two-year grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health.

Pilot funding from the University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science is available in multiple collaborative and disease-focused categories. Letters of intent are due Feb. 22 for most categories.

Grants will provide $2,500 to community partners to develop, implement and evaluate small-scale, evidenced-based health outreach projects focused on reducing health disparities in Appalachian communities in Kentucky. Applications are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16.

The grant, awarded to the UK College of Education, will assist 125 teachers in three Kentucky counties with educating children who are learning English in the classroom.

The American Heart Association has awarded a University of Kentucky and Baylor University research partnership $3.7 million to study aortic disease.

The program pairs special educators and speech-language pathologist students.

A new grant from the U.S. Department of Education will allow the UK College of Education to uniquely prepare school personnel prepared to work with students with high-intensity learning and behavior needs.

The project, funded by NETL, will develop and test a scaled-down version of an opposed, multi-burner (OMB) gasifier to standardize the gasification process in a manner that could significantly reduce the cost of the technology.

The UK Office of Undergraduate Research has created a Summer Research Information Session to answer any questions that current freshmen, sophomores and juniors might have regarding undergraduate research programs, especially questions regarding financial support.

Federal research funding has been flat nationally, but you wouldn't know it by UK's funding numbers, which show three consecutive years of growth.