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UK Senior Awarded Prestigious Brooke Owens Fellowship

Anna Compas, a Lexington senior studying mechanical engineering at the University of Kentucky, is the recipient of a Brooke Owens Fellowship.

Nancy Schoenberg: Listening to Communities to Create Equitable Solutions

The best solutions begin by listening to the people whose problems you’re trying to solve. That community-based focus has been a guiding value of Nancy Schoenberg's 25 years at UK.

UK Awarded Beckman Scholars Program With Undergraduate Chemistry Focus

The prestigious, invite-only program for top-tier research institutions provides a 15-month mentored research experience for exceptional undergraduate students in chemistry, biological sciences and associated interdisciplinary combinations.

Black History Month: Celebrating Those Who Paved the Way

The Martin Luther King Center, along with units across campus, will celebrate Black History Month with a series virtual and in-person events and programs throughout February. 

KYNETIC Seeks Applications for Proof-of-concept Commercialization

The Kentucky Network for Innovation and Commercialization (KYNETIC) grants are awarded to faculty, staff and student innovator teams across Kentucky for new, innovative products that have the potential to impact human health.

Frazar Receives the Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Scientific Excellence

The award recognizes one outstanding graduate student or postdoctoral researcher who exemplifies qualities of scientific excellence.

UK’s Crystal Wilkinson Finalist for 2022 NAACP Image Award

The Kentucky Poet Laureate’s book of poetry, “Perfect Black" (University Press of Kentucky), is nominated in the category of “Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry.”

Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center Names New Acting Director

Simon Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed acting director of the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center (BBDC). Fisher is taking over for John Fowlkes, M.D., who has served as director of the center since 2015.

WATCH: What Francis Collins Means to UK

Researchers and administrators from across the University of Kentucky campus are paying tribute to Francis S. Collins, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health.

Institute for Rural Journalism, KPA Receive Grant

The “Healthy Together Through Vaccinations” grant from the Kentucky Association of Health Plans (KAHP) aims to increase vaccine acceptance in the state.

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