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Communication Sciences and Disorders Program Receives $3.2 Million from HRSA to Expand SUCCESS Program

Aug 6, 2020, 8:27 AM

The scholarship program, Strengthening Underserved Communities through Enhanced Student Support (SUCCESS) in Speech-Language Pathology, began in 2016 and has granted 64 students to date with financial assistance totaling more than $1.5 million.

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UK Creating Multimillion-dollar Research Initiative Around Racial Disparity, Inequity

Aug 5, 2020, 4:05 PM

President Capilouto has asked UK Vice President for Research Lisa Cassis to designate the UNITed In racial Equity (UNITE) Research Initiative as a Research Priority Area — one of now seven such research programs across the campus.

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NIH Awards $11.2 Million for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation Center at UK

Aug 3, 2020, 8:27 AM

"Our outstanding researchers at the University of Kentucky are leading the way in translational chemical biology, and the recently awarded COBRE grant is a testament to UK CPRI’s success in their constant pursuit of discovery," said UK President Eli Capilouto.

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UK Part of Nationally Unique Partnership to Commercialize Tech Innovations

Jul 27, 2020, 2:46 PM

“We all want to grow Kentucky’s tech sector and create the high-paying, knowledge-based jobs that follow. A big part of doing so is turning Kentucky’s own academic research and development capabilities into commercially viable products and startups.”

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UK Projects Receive NIH KYNETIC Product Development Awards

Jul 27, 2020, 2:32 PM

KYNETIC, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is excited to announce that five of the seven projects recently awarded $50,000 to bring their innovations toward product development are from the University of Kentucky.

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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.

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UK Virologist Shares What We Know About COVID-19

Jul 22, 2020, 8:14 AM

Dutch is leading the College of Medicine’s COVID-19 Unified Research Experts (CURE) Alliance team, which brings together faculty expertise from multiple disciplines across the university to focus on advising COVID-19 patient care and clinical trials based on emerging research.

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NIH-funded Network Led by XLerateHealth and UK Supports HBCU Commercialization

Jul 22, 2020, 8:05 AM

Supported by XLerateHealth, a health care startup accelerator in Louisville, Kentucky, and by UK, EnRICH is an outgrowth of NIH funding UK received in October 2018 — $3.5 million over three years — to create the XLerator Network.

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UK Human Research Protection Program Receives Full AAHRPP Reaccreditation

Jul 16, 2020, 8:27 AM

The five-year reaccreditation process involved an AAHRPP application consisting of some 1,700 pages, completed by ORI staff, describing the HRPP at UK and culminated with a two-day site visit.

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OTC Announces Enhanced UKAccel Program in Partnership With Launch Blue

Jul 15, 2020, 8:31 AM

Under the enhanced UKAccel, the Launch Blue team will provide professional development and experiential learning to UK innovators who are interested in learning the best commercialization path for their technology.

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