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Jeannette Sutton, director of the Risk and Disaster Communication Center at UK and newly appointed member of the National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee, will discuss the National Science Foundation's RAPID Response Research.

UK Associate Professor of History Akiko Takenaka has been award a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to research and write her next book about the post-World War II activism for peace initiated by the women of Japan.

In a paper published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, UK College of Medicine student Eseosa Ighodaro, Ph.D., addressed the numerous challenges associated with studying dementia in Blacks/African-Americans.

Join the KRDC on Sept 19 and 22 to learn about the data resources and access requirements for researchers.

As Kentucky’s flagship research university, we are developing a well-educated workforce for the state. We are creating more jobs through smart growth and capital investment. And we are sustaining business and industry development through our research and commercialization.

~$5 million in additional funding from the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT) has been awarded to the lab of Dean Kip Guy at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, in partnership with Eisai Pharmaceuticals and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), for ongoing malaria research.

The team's small spacecraft — a 7-inch diameter re-entry capsule — reached an altitude of 94 miles before coming back down to Earth. Video taken on board the rocket, complete with a UK logo, shows the capsule being ejected before entering the atmosphere.

With a $1.16 million grant from five federal agencies, UK researcher Dr. April Young will work with public health organizations and universities across the country to combat the opioid epidemic in 12 Eastern Kentucky counties.

Research done by Gatton College faculty member Jim Ziliak on food insecurity among older Americans is gaining national attention. The study found that rates for food insecurity have remained virtually unchanged since the Great Recession, especially for people over 60.