Children & Education
  • Podcast
  • Dec 24 2024

This episode of “Behind the Blue” spotlights one of the six Great Teacher Award winners for 2024: Kayla Johnson, an assistant professor in the UK College of Education.

  • Article
  • Dec 16 2024

The IMPACT Awards initiative is an internal funding program from the Office of the Provost designed to support innovation and transformation within UK’s colleges.

  • Article
  • Nov 7 2024

The University of Kentucky College of Dentistry’s 2023 Kentucky Early Learners’ Oral Health Surveillance Project survey found dental decay rates for Kentucky children ages 2 through 5 are significantly higher than the national average. 

  • Video
  • Oct 23 2024

John Lyons describes Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management, a framework for managing systems, organizations, and programs whose mission to help people change their lives.

  • Video
  • Oct 21 2024

The UK Center on Trauma and Children, housed in the UK College of Medicine, is celebrating its 25th anniversary of transforming the lives of those affected by trauma.

  • Article
  • Jul 11 2024

Preschool teachers across the U.S. have access to a free-to-use online module developed at the University of Kentucky College of Education to help support child development.

  • Article
  • Jul 9 2024

Jennifer Grisham, professor in the Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education program and faculty director of the Early Childhood Laboratory at UK has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

  • Article
  • Jan 23 2024

Researchers at the University of Kentucky continue to advance strategies to prevent child sex trafficking across the Commonwealth through a training program for middle school staff.

  • Article
  • Dec 13 2023

UK received a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to prepare aspiring early childhood educators and speech/language pathologists to collaboratively provide high-quality services to children born with neonatal abstinence syndrome and other high-intensity needs.

  • Article
  • Sep 27 2023

The University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES) hosted K-12 teachers across Kentucky for a virtual training on climate and health in Kentucky.