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The Kentucky Network for Innovation and Commercialization (KYNETIC) funded nine projects in the Cycle 5 round of early-stage commercialization grants. The NIH grants are awarded to teams across Kentucky for new, innovative products that have the potential to impact human health.

The UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard, Ky. has been selected to receive a 2022 AARP Community Challenge grant, one of six grantees chosen statewide.

At age 5, Mary Sheppard, M.D., was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, a rare connective tissue disorder affecting the heart, eyes, blood vessels and skeleton. Now a physician-scientist at UK, Sheppard studies and treats this rare disease and takes pride in giving back to the community.

New online portal Scholars@UK will facilitate access to research expertise and innovation at Kentucky’s flagship land-grant institution through individual researcher profiles, network analysis, and direct access to research output and resources.

The UK program that provides tobacco use prevention services to youth, families, and community members across Kentucky has received continued funding from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

For police officers, de-escalation training is critical — greatly reducing the use of force and the likelihood that anyone will be hurt during a confrontation. That’s where the research of Stephen Ware, assistant professor in the College of Engineering, comes in.

Undergraduate agriculture students from the University of Kentucky and the University of Tennessee put the competition aside this summer to jointly study how light affects hydroponic lettuce.

Cortney Lollar is one of this year’s Great Teacher Award recipients. As the James and Mary Lassiter Professor of Law in the J. David Rosenberg College of Law, Lollar enjoys the reciprocal learning relationship between herself and her students.

The University of Kentucky Libraries has recognized Reinette Jones as the recipient of the 2022 Paul A. Willis Outstanding Faculty Award.

The article, co-authored by University of Kentucky College of Education Dean Julian Vasquez Heilig, Ph.D., appears in the latest issue of the Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality.