M. Paul Murphy, professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry in the UK College of Medicine, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
Julie Cerel, professor in the UK College of Social Work, has been honored with the Norman Farberow Award for Bereavement and Lived Experience by the International Association for Suicide Prevention.
Michael D. Murray, Spears Gilbert Professor of Law at the UK J. David Rosenberg College of Law, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
The UK College of Nursing is pleased to announce that Jean Edward and Amanda Fallin-Bennett have been selected to become Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing.
Nicholas Heebner, associate professor in the UK College of Health Sciences and director of UK’s Sports Medicine Research Institute, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
Tie “Thomas” Luo, has received the Best Paper Award at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2025 Workshop on Pattern Mining and Machine Learning for Bioinformatics for his work titled “Unlocking Neural Transparency: Jacobian Maps for Explainable AI in Alzheimer’s Detection.”
Zach Agioutantis, Ph.D., the Mining Engineering Foundation Professor and chair of the Department of Mining Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
Matthew Kim, a three-time nominee for UK’s Excellent Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, is one of this year’s distinguished Great Teacher Award recipients.
Neal Hutchens, professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation in the University of Kentucky College of Education, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
