Children & Education
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  • Feb 21 2020

Next month, the state's first-ever STEM Leadership Forum will take place on the UK campus. The event is co-hosted by Kentucky's NSF-sponsored Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Discovery Education.

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  • Feb 19 2020

From building bridges and discovering medication to writing the software that powers our cell phones — Engineers Day, or E-Day, is a celebration of everything UK Engineering has to offer.

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  • Feb 10 2020

A symposium featuring speakers focused on gender and equity in education will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, at the UK College of Education (Taylor Education Building auditorium).

  • Article
  • Feb 10 2020

A new study led by UK Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that implementing cancer education curricula in middle and high schools may improve cancer literacy in Kentuckians and ultimately help reduce cancer rates.

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  • Jan 30 2020

The UK Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) have announced a new program to advance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in KY’s schools.

  • Article
  • Nov 25 2019

The University of Kentucky College of Education has received a $1.2 million grant to uniquely prepare school personnel who are in high demand — preschool teachers and applied behavior analysts.

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  • Oct 28 2019

UK researchers are working with the University of Notre Dame and the University of Washington-Bothell to uncover how school voucher programs impact long-term student outcomes.

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  • Oct 16 2019

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, this project will prepare 10 doctoral level scholars in special education, five at UK and five at UofL.

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  • Oct 2 2019

John Thelin has just published the third edition of “A History of American Higher Education," which goes into detail about the last decade in higher education.

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  • Aug 13 2019

This summer, high school students from Appalachian Kentucky spent five weeks at UK gathering real-life experience in oncology training and research as part of the UK Markey Cancer Center's successful ACTION Program.