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Over the last 5 years, UK has driven the state’s progress in awarding more bachelor’s degrees to Kentuckians, while increasing access to higher education for students of color and with financial challenges.

In just a few weeks, UK will welcome students, scholars and activists to campus for the 43rd annual Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) conference March 12-15. Themed "Appalachian Understories," the conference will emphasize the often obscured voices of the region, including black Appalachians.

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.

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.

A new book of essays by young Kentucky students seeks to inform, inspire, motivate and uplift the reader through personal cancer stories and cancer prevention initiatives.

In this edition of People Behind Our Research, UK's Ann Stowe explains her work to understand how inflammation after stroke can be shaped to support rewiring in the brain and recovery of function that might be lost with injury.

The 2019-2020 foaling season has seen an increase in reports of Nocardioform placentitis, both in cases submitted to UK’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (VDL) and in reports from equine practitioners in the field.

Political scientist Michael Zilis talks about what issues he thinks will shape 2020 and beyond.

New University of Kentucky research shows that the immune system may target other remote areas of the brain to improve recovery after a stroke.

Eve Schneider has been named a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Schneider is one of 126 selected across the U.S. and Canada, and is first UK scholar to receive the fellowship in 25 years.