The university is determining the extent of the damage to facilities and equipment after the center took a direct hit from an EF-4 tornado on December 10, 2021. 49 of the center’s 58 buildings are expected to be a complete loss.
Created with $250,000 of seed funding from the university last fall, the institute will now receive annual funding of $200,000 through UK’s Office for Institutional Diversity — an important step forward in helping the institute achieve its goals.
Researchers received three National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, totaling over $8 million, to study one of the most common sports injuries among athletes.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), and the University of Kentucky (UK) are teaming up to develop a new Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) research network to support translational science across a criminal justice continuum that impacts millions of lives.
Simon Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed acting director of the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center (BBDC). Fisher is taking over for John Fowlkes, M.D., who has served as director of the center since 2015.
Anika Hartz, a researcher for the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, looks at drugs and therapies that might repair damaged blood vessels in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Dana Canedy’s New York Times best-selling memoir “A Journal for Jordan,” has been adapted into a feature film. Canedy is a graduate of the UK School of Journalism and Media.
Researchers and administrators from across the University of Kentucky campus are paying tribute to Francis S. Collins, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health.
The “Healthy Together Through Vaccinations” grant from the Kentucky Association of Health Plans (KAHP) aims to increase vaccine acceptance in the state.
The University of Kentucky is part of a coalition that received a $500,000 grant to support a project to boost economic recovery in Kentucky through technological innovations in agriculture.
