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Kenneth Graham, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a $750,000 CAREER Award from the Department of Energy. This award supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research programs in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science.

UKAccel, a joint program of the Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship and the Office of Technology Commercialization at UK, educates UK researchers on turning their intellectual property into startup companies.

A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that when therapy-sensitive cancer cells die, they release a "killer peptide" that can eliminate therapy-resistant cells.

The gift goes to the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment's new Grain and Forage Center of Excellence in Western Kentucky.

NASA has announced two new three-year awards totaling $850,000 for the NASA Kentucky EPSCoR Program, hosted at the University of Kentucky.

Gentry's research on a plant protein that stores sugars like the human protein implicated in Lafora disease, led him to an international partnership to find a cure.

Abigail Firey didn’t set out to blaze trails in digital humanities. But that’s exactly what has happened in her quest to get a grasp on the enormous corpus of unpublished manuscripts that are part of her work in medieval canon law.

SMRI focuses on injury prevention and performance optimization for athletes, the military and physically active people of all ages.

The similarities between a plant and human protein may be the key to curing Lafora disease.