In 2023, the Office of the Vice President for Research offered the Emerging Themes for Research Program to support for multidisciplinary teams engaged in emerging research that creates, grows and sustains a healthier, wealthier and wiser Kentucky.
Criteria:
- Find answers to the economic, workforce and health challenges that disproportionately affect Kentuckians
- Support strategic college research goals and objectives with the intent of extending unit goals for broader participation
- Promote leadership development across the full research spectrum
- Align with national priorities and funding opportunities in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) and Health science fields (STEM+H) and/or have societal impact
- Leverage talent, intellect and resources across campus in a collaborative manner
- Address three key factors: our faculty, our infrastructure and our systems (for example, operations, facilities, equipment, systems for compliance and safety)
The following programs were selected for support.
| Warren Alilain (College of Medicine) | Project: Kentucky Research Alliance for Lung Disease (K-RALD) |
| Alison Gustafson (Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment) | Project: Food as Health Alliance |
| Julie Pendergast (College of Arts and Sciences) | Project: Circadian and Sleep Health for a Healthy Kentucky (CASH KY) |
| Ilhem Messaoudi Powers (College of Medicine) | Project: Consortium for Understanding and Reducing Infectious Diseases in Kentucky (CURE-KY) |
| Rebekah Radtke (College of Design) | Project: Sustainable Futures Design Lab |
| Christopher Richards (College of Arts and Sciences) | Project: Nanomedicine and Bioelectronics |
| Dmitry Strakovsky (College of Fine Arts) | Project: Creative Gateway for Advancing Digital Health |