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Lucas Bertucci, a University of Kentucky chemical engineering senior from Louisville, Kentucky, has been named the university’s first Lee T. Todd, Jr. Student Innovation Scholarship recipient.

Michael Goodin was an integral faculty member of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment for nearly two decades before his sudden passing in 2020.

Linda J. Van Eldik, Ph.D., director of the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, is part of a $1.5 million grant to help further research into a possible treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) IDeA Regional Entrepreneurship Development (I-RED) Program grant will develop a suite of entrepreneurship and commercialization training tools addressing the needs of academic institutions across the Southeast.

UK Innovate, the University of Kentucky’s innovation and entrepreneurship enterprise within UK Research, has received a competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA).

The award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry honors Guy for outstanding contributions to medicinal chemistry.

Theodore Schatzki, Ph.D., professor of geography, and of philosophy and sociology, in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, has been named one of 14 University Research Professors for 2022-23.

Peter T. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and director of neuropathology at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, has been named one of 14 University Research Professors.

Dean Scott Lephart, Ph.D., has been recognized as a top-cited author in the American Journal of Sports Medicine 50 year celebration.