Awards & Recognitions
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  • Dec 19 2022

Renee Fatemi, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the nation's preeminent organization of physicists.

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  • Dec 13 2022

Erin Haynes, D.P.H., has been appointed to the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Board of Scientific Counselors. Haynes is a community-engaged environmental health scientist and has created multidisciplinary research teams to investigate community-identified exposure issues.

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  • Dec 8 2022

Linda Dwoskin, Ph.D., and Chang-Guo Zhan, Ph.D., have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction given to academic inventors.

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  • Dec 8 2022

YuMing Zhang, James R. Boyd Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky, has been named a 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow.

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  • Nov 23 2022

The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC), was recently awarded a $2.2 million grant to comprehensively evaluate the Kentucky Access to Recovery program.

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  • Nov 18 2022

Alison Davis, extension professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and executive director of the Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky, received the 2022 Excellence in Extension for an Individual award.

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  • Nov 17 2022

Alan Daugherty, Ph.D., D.Sc., was named the 2022 George Lyman Duff Memorial Lecturer at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Sessions.

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  • Nov 15 2022

The 2022 James Madison Award is presented annually by the School of Journalism and Media and the Scripps Howard First Amendment Center.

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  • Oct 7 2022

The Alliance for Equity in Cancer Care is designed to make cancer care more equitable by helping patients living in underserved communities receive timely access to high-quality, culturally responsive care.

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  • Oct 3 2022

The Alzheimer’s Association welcomes the University of Kentucky’s Donna M. Wilcock, Ph.D., as the new editor-in-chief of Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.