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Beth Rous, Ph.D., is one of this year’s Great Teacher Award recipients. The UK College of Education professor treats her students as if they were her colleagues.

Olivia Davis, lecturer in the Gatton College of Business and Economics, is one of the distinguished Great Teacher Award recipients who strives to help her students discover their passions.

Zachary Bray is one of this year’s Great Teacher Award recipients. As the James and Mary Lassiter Professor of Law in the J. David Rosenberg College of Law, Bray is dedicated to educating the next generation of legal minds serving the Commonwealth.

UK College of Communication and Information (CI) professor Beth Barnes has been named one of six UK Alumni Association 2022 Great Teachers.

Childhood cancer rates in Kentucky appear to be higher than the national rates for several cancer types. The UK Markey Cancer Center provides leading care to children in Kentucky, identifying new mechanisms causing these cancers and developing new treatment modalities.

UK College of Medicine researcher Ilhem Messaoudi, Ph.D., has dedicated her career to developing a better understanding of how the immune system works, paving the way for improving how people respond to vaccines and infections.

The Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) Kentucky Program works with employees, employers and health care providers to address issues that can keep people from returning to work after injury or illness.

Researchers at the Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) recently received funding from OUR&D seeking to supplement current research on sustainable aviation fuel.

Through the College of Medicine’s Alliance Program, UK formed the Kentucky Research Alliance for Lung Disease (K-RALD). Jamie Sturgill shares how K-RALD has created a biobank allowing researchers to ask and answer critical research questions.

The Kentucky Re-Entry Probe Experiment (KREPE) successfully gathered heat shield data with capsules built by College of Engineering students and faculty, with funding from NASA and the NASA Kentucky Space Grant Consortium and EPSCoR Programs.