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For the eighth year, University of Kentucky administrators and researchers will join officials from local, state and federal agencies, as well as leaders from business, academia, and communities across the country impacted by prescription drug abuse for the 2019 RX Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta.

Dr. Mark Williams, chief quality and transformation officer at UK HealthCare and director of the University of Kentucky Center for Health Services Research, and Dr. Jing Li, associate director of the UK Center for Health Services Research, will present findings from Project ACHIEVE at the National Care Transitions Awareness (NCTA) Day Summit being held on NCTA Day, April 16.

Although separated by thousands of miles, an ocean and most of continental Europe, the Appalachian-Carpathian International Conference will bring scholars together to discuss important issues that affect both Appalachian and Carpathian mountain communities.

Daniel A. Jacobson, chief scientist for computational systems biology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, will speak on the University of Kentucky campus at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28. The free seminar is open to the public and should interest anyone who works or studies in the fields of biology or computer science.

The University of Kentucky Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) will host its third annual "Patent Palooza!" 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, in Ballroom 212C of the Gatton Student Center.

The Chellgren Center for Undergraduate Excellence will host an information session at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in Room 200 of the Funkhouser Building to inform students about the Chellgren Center Enrichment Groups, which meet during the fall term, and the Chellgren Student Fellows Program.

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center is hosting OncLive’s State of the Science Summit with a focus on neuroendocrine tumors on Saturday, April 20, 2019.

Tara Holm, a mathematician and professor at Cornell University, will deliver the 2018-19 J.C. Eaves Lecture. Hosted by the University of Kentucky Department of Mathematics, the lecture will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in 208 White Hall Classroom Building.

The University of Kentucky International Center, in cooperation with the Institute of International Education and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is hosting the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Enrichment Seminar: Combating Addiction, March 20-23, 2019.

Erin Calipari, an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, recently visited the University of Kentucky to give a talk about her work in addiction research.