Research done by Gatton College faculty member Jim Ziliak on food insecurity among older Americans is gaining national attention. The study found that rates for food insecurity have remained virtually unchanged since the Great Recession, especially for people over 60.
Five of the university's undergraduate students pursued research in their fields of study this summer with funding from the National Science Foundation-Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.
Can taking care of social needs for people utilizing Medicare and Medicaid help them spend less on health care and improve their health? A new $4.5 million statewide project led by the UK Center for Health Services Research will find out.
Rick Honaker, Professor of Mining Engineering, was awarded $6 Million by the Department of Energy to move on to a second phase of research in an effort to recover rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts.
The team hopes to observe violations of time reversal symmetry in outer space, which would indicate the laws of physics behave differently when the arrow of time runs “forward” versus “backward."
Angela Wei, an agricultural and medical biotechnology and mathematics senior from Lexington, was one of only five students across the country selected to participate in the 2017 Dartmouth MD/PhD Undergraduate Summer Fellowship Program.
A team of researchers, led by Professor Suzanne Segerstrom, extends its psychological and immunological health research to include brain health, supported by a $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging.
UK researchers participating in a DOE funded multi-institutional center (BETCy Energy Frontier Research Center) have discovered a groundbreaking process that allows them to harness energy from chemical reactions that previously dismissed as unusable.
Assistant Professor Bert Guillou in the Department of Mathematics has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for his research in homotopy theory. The grant is just shy of $140,000 and will be spread over three years.
