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UK Receives Prestigious Grant from National Institute of Neurological Disorders

May 26, 2020, 10:30 AM

The work at UK in Gentry’s lab supported by this award will focus on novel insights in energy metabolism using cutting edge methodologies applied to multiple human diseases.

UK Research Leads to Patent Designed to Reduce Vehicle Emissions

May 21, 2020, 8:45 AM

Mark Crocker and CAER research scientist Yaying Ji have developed and patented a novel technology that addresses the problem of removing nitrogen oxides (NOx) from exhaust gas when a vehicle is first started and the gas is still cold.

Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Secondary Traumatic Stress in Health Workers

May 21, 2020, 8:36 AM

The STS-ISC project will implement and test interventions to over 1,000 professionals and create free tools and resources that will be accessible to the global community of trauma workers and resource parents.

UK Social Work Receives Engagement Award to Bring Together Suicide Survivors, Research

May 21, 2020, 8:18 AM

This project will inform suicide-related advocacy, education, research and treatment and is being funded by a nearly $100,000 grant through the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards Program, an initiative of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

CAER Receives DOE Grant to Support STEM Education Program

May 20, 2020, 8:48 AM

“Even as we are doing everything that we can to protect the ones we love during the coronavirus, these grants will enable Kentuckians to make better choices that will save them money and lead to a more sustainable energy future,” Gov. Beshear said.

Fauci, Arnett, Others to Discuss the Future of Academic Public Health

May 15, 2020, 9:54 AM

Public Health Dean Donna Arnett is a panel participant for the ASPPH Virtual Annual Meeting, focused on lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Study Suggests U.S. COVID-19 Cases Could Have Been 35 Times Higher Without These Measures

May 15, 2020, 9:49 AM

“Our results suggest that light measures don’t work, and strong measures do," said Charles Courtemanche.

UK HEALing Communities Strategy Fast-Tracked Due to COVID-19

May 14, 2020, 8:45 AM

The ambitious study is organized into six phases, beginning with the basic preparations and leading into actual implementation and monitoring of various evidence-based strategies to reduce opioid deaths.

UK Gets NSF Funding to Develop Face Mask that Can Deactivate COVID-19

May 14, 2020, 8:37 AM

For the RAPID project, the team will create a membrane mask and other flat sheet materials with a more porous and spongy structure that will include charged domain and enzymes, which would capture and effectively deactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

UK Physics and Astronomy Receives Prestigious REU From NSF

May 14, 2020, 8:32 AM

UK Physics and Astronomy has received its first Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This highly competitive program will help provide research opportunities for students from regional colleges.

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