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The University of Kentucky Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) will host its third annual "Patent Palooza!" 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, in Ballroom 212C of the Gatton Student Center.

The Chellgren Center for Undergraduate Excellence will host an information session at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in Room 200 of the Funkhouser Building to inform students about the Chellgren Center Enrichment Groups, which meet during the fall term, and the Chellgren Student Fellows Program.

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center is hosting OncLive’s State of the Science Summit with a focus on neuroendocrine tumors on Saturday, April 20, 2019.

Tara Holm, a mathematician and professor at Cornell University, will deliver the 2018-19 J.C. Eaves Lecture. Hosted by the University of Kentucky Department of Mathematics, the lecture will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in 208 White Hall Classroom Building.

Preliminary data shows that the Find Help Now Kentucky website, a near real-time treatment locator for substance use disorders, has had 70,000 individuals seeking help from the site since February 2018.

The University of Kentucky International Center, in cooperation with the Institute of International Education and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is hosting the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Enrichment Seminar: Combating Addiction, March 20-23, 2019.

Kentucky is famous not only for having the world’s longest cave system (Mammoth Cave), but also for another geologic occurrence: sinkholes. Some sinkholes are dramatic, such as the one that occurred inside the Corvette Museum in 2014. They can cause property damage and pose a threat to human safety.

The College of Social Work (CoSW) at the University of Kentucky is turning words into actions by launching the Suicide Prevention and Exposure Laboratory (SPEL).

For International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we are highlighting women of UK. Researcher and Appalachian Kentucky native Michele Staton has a passion to help incarcerated women struggling with substance abuse.

Erin Calipari, an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, recently visited the University of Kentucky to give a talk about her work in addiction research.