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This week, University of Kentucky physicians, researchers and leaders working to find solutions in the fight against prescription drug abuse are in Atlanta for the 2018 National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit.

Dr. Laura Fanucchi works with patients who have substance use disorders to help them on their path to recovery.

The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has been awarded a $2 million grant to train the next generation of dementia researchers.

UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health has released the full agenda for the fourth annual Appalachian Research Day, "Come Sit on the Porch." The event shares results of health research conducted with communities in Appalachia and will be held Wednesday, April 18 at the First Federal Center in Hazard.

The earliest technology behind touch-screen systems was pioneered by a former UK faculty member, Samuel Hurst, with the support of federal research funding. From it, entire industries were transformed as technology improved over the years: entrepreneurs developing new patents that transformed the technology for new applications.

New findings from University of Kentucky researchers published in Nature Chemical Biology help reveal how nature makes complex chemicals with anticancer properties.

UK researchers are participating in a project to grow a plant which can be used in medications to fight malaria.

The talk, “Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier,” will take place 4:15 p.m. Friday, April 6, in the Jacobs Science Building auditorium. The talk is jointly sponsored by the UK Department of Physics and Astronomy, the UK Department of Computer Science and the UK Graduate School.

Several UK faculty members presented research at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference last weekend. The three-day event, in Washington, D.C., brought together scholars, professors, researchers and authors from around the world to discuss pressing issues in Asia.

Emily Dautenhahn, a senior double majoring in mathematics and history in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, has found ways to merge her interests in travel and math research.