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The associate dean of Special Collections Research Center and director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center is the recipient of the 2021 Paul A. Willis Outstanding Faculty Award.

The associate professor in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering received the John Clark Award from the Canadian Society of Bioengineering.

Inclusive Excellence and Diversity Education (IEDE) is pleased to share the fall 2021 training schedule for the Unconscious Bias Initiative (UBI) along with several new offerings. Spring semester training dates will be shared in December.

In January 2021, the Center for Muscle Biology (CMB) officially transferred from the UK College of Medicine to become a part of the UK College of Health Sciences.

The Lewis Honors College junior is one of 2021’s 60 recipients to be awarded a scholarship of up to $15,000 from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.

Katrice A. Albert, Ph.D., will begin her duties as vice president for institutional diversity on Sept. 27, 2021. UK Chief Communications Officer Jay Blanton talks with Albert about what she’s looking forward to in joining UK, particularly at this moment, as the institution is engaged in a broad-based and expansive effort around diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

The University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) has received a $23.5 million, four-year award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health.

The independent, student-led organization that designs, builds, and races solar electric vehicles won the first national competition in its 22-year history earlier this month in Topeka, Kansas.

Her co-authored research paper, “The Role of Assurance in Equity Crowdfunding,” was recently featured in Forbes and has been published in The Accounting Review.

The project continues UK's commitment to producing the next generation of aerospace engineers at NASA, and UK College of Engineering's contributions to space exploration.