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Training Kentucky's Next Generation of Cancer Fighters

Mar 5, 2018, 10:28 AM

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.

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UK Helping Belfry High School Research Team Get to India

Feb 26, 2018, 8:44 AM

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

Explore What Makes Our World Work at E-Day on Feb. 24

Feb 21, 2018, 9:23 AM

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.

$2.7 Million Grant Gives Teachers Tools to Support English Learners in the Classroom

Jan 30, 2018, 8:23 AM

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.

Symposium Focuses on How Discrimination, Disparities Impact Children, Teens

Jan 29, 2018, 8:39 AM

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.”

UK Grant Targets Communication Needs of Students With Disabilities

Jan 24, 2018, 8:52 AM

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

UK College of Education Grant Targets High-Intensity Learning and Behavior Needs

Jan 22, 2018, 8:48 AM

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.

UK's BREATHE Helps Teens Advocate for Tobacco-Free Communities

Jan 11, 2018, 8:45 AM

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.

UK Researchers Investigating How Public Libraries' Storytimes Support School Readiness

Dec 19, 2017, 8:27 AM

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.

Helping Children With ADHD Thrive in the Classroom

Nov 16, 2017, 8:12 AM

Nearly 15% of Kentucky children are currently diagnosed with ADHD, the highest rate in the nation. While medicine alone doesn't necessarily lead to improved academic performance in the long run, a new intervention developed by UK professors is aiming to do just that.

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