UK Research News

2020 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award Winners Announced

Jul 27, 2020, 2:25 PM

This student-nominated award recognizes UK faculty members who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to mentoring undergraduate researchers, providing exceptional undergraduate research experiences, as well as supporting and promoting the undergraduate research initiatives on campus.

UK’s Haupt Awarded National Education Dissertation Fellowship

Jul 14, 2020, 8:30 AM

Haupt is one of 35 recipients of the 2020 fellowship, selected from a pool of 429 applicants. He will receive $27,500 for a period of up to two years to complete his dissertation and attend professional development.

College of Education Associate Dean Seeks to Break Through Barriers With First Handbook of STEM Education Research

Jul 1, 2020, 8:11 AM

For more than a decade, Mohr-Schroeder has worked to remove barriers in order to facilitate authentic, hands-on educational opportunities for students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, collectively known as STEM.

Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Secondary Traumatic Stress in Health Workers

May 21, 2020, 8:36 AM

The STS-ISC project will implement and test interventions to over 1,000 professionals and create free tools and resources that will be accessible to the global community of trauma workers and resource parents.

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Q&A With UK's John Thelin About COVID-19’s Impact on Higher Education

Apr 23, 2020, 8:30 AM

John Thelin is a leading authority on the history of American higher education. Today, he answers some of our questions, bringing historical knowledge to contemporary discussions around COVID-19’s impact on higher education.

UK College of Education's Research on Learning Disabilities Goes Virtual

Apr 8, 2020, 8:11 AM

Researchers at UK's College of Education are using video-conferencing technology to connect with students from a Lexington middle school as they earn credit at home.

Kentucky NSF EPSCoR, Discovery Education to Host STEM Leadership Forum

Feb 21, 2020, 8:23 AM

Next month, the state's first-ever STEM Leadership Forum will take place on the UK campus. The event is co-hosted by Kentucky's NSF-sponsored Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Discovery Education.

UK Invites Community to Celebrate Engineers Day This Saturday

Feb 19, 2020, 8:25 AM

From building bridges and discovering medication to writing the software that powers our cell phones — Engineers Day, or E-Day, is a celebration of everything UK Engineering has to offer.

College of Education Hosts Symposium on Gender and Equity in Education

Feb 10, 2020, 8:16 AM

A symposium featuring speakers focused on gender and equity in education will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, at the UK College of Education (Taylor Education Building auditorium).

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New Study Examines Ways to Improve Cancer Literacy in Kentucky Students

Feb 10, 2020, 8:12 AM

A new study led by UK Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that implementing cancer education curricula in middle and high schools may improve cancer literacy in Kentuckians and ultimately help reduce cancer rates.

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