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UK launches campus-wide artificial intelligence initiative

Nov 14, 2025, 7:16 AM

CATS (Commonwealth AI Transdisciplinary Strategy) AI will serve as a central hub to integrate AI activities across UK’s 17 colleges, libraries, research centers and institutes, as well as its academic and health care enterprises.

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Kentucky dream takes flight: UK joins NASA on Arctic space mission

Nov 13, 2025, 8:13 AM

A team of students and faculty from UK's Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering will make history in Norway, launching a UK-developed payload as part of NASA’s GHOST spaceflight mission.

‘Birds are the great unifier’: UK study on avian migration and survival takes flight

Nov 13, 2025, 7:41 AM

At the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, researchers and students are identifying factors that drive variation in survival rates among different avian populations.

Interactive plan aims to protect limestone water in horse and bourbon country

Nov 12, 2025, 7:29 AM

An interactive watershed plan uses virtual stream walks and an interactive dashboard to enhance public understanding and engagement with the information.

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Preserving Kentucky’s deer: UK, Kentucky Fish & Wildlife study Chronic Wasting Disease

Nov 12, 2025, 7:12 AM

A team from the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources is catching and monitoring deer in order to help understand movement patterns and predict the potential spread of Chronic Wasting Disease.

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Using drones to protect Kentucky corn: UK researchers lead precision agriculture study

Nov 7, 2025, 7:28 AM

The UK Research and Education Center aims to optimize drone-based spray systems to improve access to effective management of foliar diseases in Kentucky cornfields.

UK neurologist aims to stop a preventable cause of blindness

Nov 7, 2025, 7:24 AM

Jay Avasarala’s latest study reveals a critical blind spot in how emergency departments across the globe diagnose a condition known as giant cell arteritis (GCA), which is blood vessel inflammation that can suddenly block blood flow to the eye, causing blindness.

‘I am a UK Innovator’: College of Arts and Sciences’ John Anthony

Nov 6, 2025, 7:28 AM

In this Q&A, John Anthony describes his work developing new molecules for semiconductor applications and how this research helps train the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists. His award-winning contributions have positioned him among UK’s most highly cited researchers.

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Gaines Center now accepting fellowship applications

Nov 6, 2025, 7:10 AM

The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities is now accepting applications for the 2026-28 cohort of Gaines Fellows, one of the university’s most prestigious undergraduate opportunities.

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UK hosts researchers, community members for national environmental health sciences meeting

Nov 5, 2025, 7:59 AM

The University of Kentucky hosted the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and its Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHSCC) for the EHSCC annual meeting Oct. 27-30. This was Lexington’s first time hosting that event.The meeting’s theme was “Celebrating Environmental Health Science: Over 60 Years of Science, 25 Years of Community Engagement, and 10 Years of Disaster Response Research.”

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