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Katrice A. Albert, Ph.D., will begin her duties as vice president for institutional diversity on Sept. 27, Capilouto said in announcing the appointment to the UK campus Thursday morning.

A new study will build upon three decades of research aimed at understanding Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.

College of Arts and Sciences associate professor and Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson’s first poetry collection, “Perfect Black,” is now available from the University Press of Kentucky.

The Beam Institute is partnering with outside agencies to sponsor a competition seeking new and innovative technologies and solutions from problem solvers, inventors, entrepreneurs and businesses to expand uses of stillage.

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging will receive renewed funding for its Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) program from the National Institute on Aging, a division of the National Institutes of Health.

The University of Kentucky Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC) hosted a symposium last week featuring its first class of African American Research Training Scholars (AARTS).

The initiative aims to create a connected, integrated statewide cancer provider network. 40% of all new cancer cases in Kentucky are directly or indirectly cared for by Markey.

This episode of "Behind the Blue" features part two of interviews with the 2021 winners of the Great Teacher Awards. The show includes interviews with three of them: Christopher Crawford (College of Arts and Sciences), Chad Risko, (College of Arts and Sciences) and Kathleen Swan (College of Education).

The University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts announces Susie Thiel, director of the UK Dance Program, has been elected to the National Board of Directors for the American College Dance Association.

Jasmyne Lewis-Combs, who earned her master’s degree in library science in 2014 from the School of Information Science (SIS), took her love of local libraries and transformed it into a career.