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A partnership between the UK Colleges of Education, Arts and Sciences and Engineering encourages underrepresented students in STEM majors to also pursue a double major in STEM education. The project has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $1.2 million over the next five years.

CTOP is educating and empowering UK undergrads, from Kentucky’s Appalachian counties, through hands-on cancer research, clinical observation and shadowing, classroom and workshop learning, and community outreach in the participants’ own towns and neighborhoods.

UK's wide outreach to students and people across the state is evident in this story from Pike County.

The event, located in the engineering complex on campus, will celebrate everything engineers and computer scientists do to make the 21st-century what it is today. E-Day is free and open to the public.

The grant, awarded to the UK College of Education, will assist 125 teachers in three Kentucky counties with educating children who are learning English in the classroom.

The College of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Equality and Social Justice's spring symposium on Feb. 9 will focus on “How Discrimination and Disparities Impact Children and Teens: Research on Ethnicity, Social Class and Sexual Orientation.”

The program pairs special educators and speech-language pathologist students.

A new grant from the U.S. Department of Education will allow the UK College of Education to uniquely prepare school personnel prepared to work with students with high-intensity learning and behavior needs.

University of Kentucky's BBREATHE team recently partnered with Youth Empowered Solutions (YES) to host tobacco and youth advocacy training for leadership students of Hazard High School, as well as a training session for adult community advocates from around the state on the importance of youth empowerment and mentorship and how to engage youth in advocacy efforts.

Maria Cahill, associate professor in the UK School of Information Science, has been awarded nearly $400,000 by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to investigate how public library storytime programs support school readiness of young children.