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Jordan Brower, Ph.D., assistant professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, is one of the distinguished Great Teacher Award recipients who strives to help his students discover their passions.

Lauren Whitehurst, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and assistant director of the UNITE Research Priority Area, studies how sleep is affected by our genetics and living environments.

For more than a decade, UK College of Public Health researcher April Young, Ph.D., has been developing new methods to help and empathetically serve people struggling with substance use disorder to reduce some of the harm that they experience.

Brandon M. Erby, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, is studying the life of civil rights icon Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of Emmett Till.

Through fostering innovation and advancing interdisciplinary research, the University of Kentucky is rendering world-class care and developing solutions to improve the lives of all Kentuckians.

Offered by Markey Cancer Center, the Markey STRONG Scholars Program gives students from underrepresented groups opportunities to get hands-on experience in a supportive learning environment.

Kenneth S. Campbell, Ph.D., director of translational research in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the College of Medicine, has helped map out an important part of the heart on a molecular level.

Throughout its four decades of existence, Sanders-Brown has built an international reputation for best-in-class research into a disease that kills more people every year than breast and prostate cancer combined.

Brent Seales, computer science professor at the UK, (in partnership with EduceLab, the Library of the Institut de France and founders of the Vesuvius Challenge), presented a monumental breakthrough: for the first time in more than 2,000 years, text has been read from part of the still-closed Herculaneum scrolls.

Stephen Parsons, UK Digital Restoration Initiative visiting scholar, has been using cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to read and uncover ancient texts, including the ever-challenging Herculaneum scrolls.