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Jim Ballard will lead the newly formed Center for Interprofessional and Community Health Education (CICHE). This new center will represent the merger of two existing resources, the Center for Interprofessional Health Education and the Area Health Education Center.

More than 60,000 pages of Fayette County’s historical property records containing information about enslaved people from the late 1700s through 1865 will soon be available to the public online.

The director of the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies and African American and Africana Studies discusses the Juneteenth holiday, personal reflections on the day's significance, and the importance of observance of the holiday by the university.

Alexandre Martin, Ph.D., a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Kentucky, has been named one of 14 University Research Professors.

Results from two separate research studies, led by UK graduate and postdoctoral scholars, will be presented during the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) semiannual meeting this week.

A new UK College of Medicine study has identified potential targets to develop a therapy that could prevent Alzheimer’s disease. 

10 students and recent graduates have been selected to receive government-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. In addition, a UK doctoral student and two alumni received honorable mention recognition from the NSF. 

Research published from the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is providing the most definitive assessment yet of the prevalence of a form of dementia classified in 2019 and now known as LATE.

The Central Appalachian Regional Education and Research Center (CARERC) at UK is one of 18 university-based occupational safety and health training programs sponsored by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Zachary Bray 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, Bray is dedicated to educating the next generation of legal minds serving the Commonwealth.