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A presentation on how urban tree plantings can enhance human health in a city's neighborhoods will be held at UK on Wednesday, Jan. 23.

Providing the very latest in equine research information is the goal of a two-day event being hosted by UK Ag Equine Programs on Jan. 25-26.

Last week, UK graduate and undergraduate students competed in the final rounds of the inaugural 5-Minute Fast Track Research Competition and the 3-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT), academic competitions that cultivates students’ presentation and research communication skills, and challenges students to describe their research in a short period of time.

Simplifying complex research — it's a challenging task — but try doing that in three minutes or less. UK GradResearch Live! provides an exciting opportunity to rise to that challenge, while joining the campus and local community in a celebration of the groundbreaking research happening at UK.

For the annual Board of Trustees retreat, UK President Eli Capilouto, VP for Research Lisa Cassis and Sharon Walsh, director of the Center on Drug & Alcohol Research, have framed an entire day of discussion and presentations around the opioid epidemic in the country and its specific impact on Kentucky.

XLerateHealth LLC, a Louisville-based health care technology accelerator that focuses on startups and commercialization, will join forces with a consortium of 24 academic institutions led by UK, in partnership with UofL and West Virginia University.

The 8th Annual Sanders-Brown Center on Aging's Markesbery Symposium will take place Oct. 26-27.

Last week, more than 200 faculty, staff, and trainees from across the nation attended the Gill Heart & Vascular Institute's Cardiovascular Research Day to share the latest research on cardiovascular health.

The Kentucky Neuroscience Clinical-Translational Research Symposium will provide basic, translational and clinical neuroscience investigators an opportunity to discuss their work, share progress and develop collaborations.

The research building — funded half from the state of Kentucky and half from university resources, including private gifts — will house multidisciplinary research teams focusing on the Commonwealth’s most dire health disparities including cancer, diabetes and obesity, cardiovascular diseases and stroke and substance abuse.