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Most recently, the Byrd's have developed a plan to educate others about the roots of these historic languages through the use of modern technology. With the help of Professor George Landon, the head of the Eastern Kentucky University Gaming Institute, along with a whole host of scholars from around the globe — together, they are creating The Anatolian Trail: An Indo-European Adventure, a video game designed to transport players back in time to the age of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

On this week's episode of "Behind the Blue" hear about the development of "Find Help Now KY" from Terry Bunn, an associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Public Health and director of the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center.

Office of Technology Commercialization's UKPitch is a commercialization support program for UK researchers who want to “pitch” their research, technology, intellectual property or startup company in a competition or at a conference.

The University of Kentucky Office for Undergraduate Research hosted the 54th annual Oswald Research and Creativity Awards, naming 19 new winners.

The Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship (VACE), part of UK’s Gatton College of Business and Economics, announced the graduation of 25 teams from the fall 2018 Entrepreneurs Bootcamp program.

The University of Kentucky’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) hosted leaders from 24 universities on campus for two days last week for a “Site Leads Summit,” the first planning session for the Southeast XLerator Network Hub.

Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to fund research in Australia as part of a project to expand the operability of the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer technology developed at UK.

Since 1981, with continuous funding from NSF and NASA, UK astronomer Gary Ferland has used computing to better understand our universe. He developed Cloudy, a computer code that predicts how light is emitted so scientists can interpret the light received from celestial bodies.

Svetla Slavova, Ph.D., associate professor of biostatistics in the UK College of Public Health's Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, will lead work that includes collaboration with the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) system, the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.