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Call for proposals: Sustainability Summer Research Fellowship

Jan 7, 2026, 7:38 AM

The Sustainability Summer Research Fellowship offers UK undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in transformative research on sustainability during the summer

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Grant provides scholarship, salary stipends and professional development for STEM grads to become teachers

Dec 19, 2025, 7:52 AM

The UK College of Education, with support from a $1.71 million NSF grant, is addressing the continued shortage of STEM teachers in the Commonwealth.  

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CHS Professor Receives $3.8M Office of Naval Research Award to Advance Warfighter Performance Monitoring

Dec 9, 2025, 10:03 AM

A College of Health Sciences professor at UK has been awarded a $3.8 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to lead a groundbreaking project aimed at enhancing performance monitoring and injury prevention in military aviation personnel.

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NIH Updates on Common Forms and Research Security Training

Dec 3, 2025, 6:33 AM

National Institutes of Health (NIH) news on two fronts: NIH Common Forms and NIH Research Security Training requirements.

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NIH awards $11 million for UK diabetes prevention research

Nov 24, 2025, 7:47 AM

University of Kentucky researchers were recently awarded a prestigious five-year, $11 million Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant that will significantly bolster diabetes prevention research.

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New York philanthropist Tom Golisano announces $50 million gift to UK, UK HealthCare to support Kentucky kids

Oct 28, 2025, 8:21 AM

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Golisano announced that UK and UK HealthCare will receive a historic $50 million gift that will transform pediatric health care in Kentucky.

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UK researcher earns national Emerging Investigator Grant to study PCOS

Oct 23, 2025, 7:44 AM

Katherine Halloran, an assistant professor in the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment’s Department of Animal and Food Sciences, has received a $10,000 Emerging Investigator Grant from the Society for the Study of Reproduction.

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National study will test Markey-developed lung cancer screening program

Oct 20, 2025, 7:22 AM

University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers Jennifer Redmond Knight, Dr.P.H., and Timothy Mullett, M.D., are co-investigators on a new National Cancer Institute grant that will expand Kentucky’s successful lung cancer screening quality improvement program to 60 sites across the U.S.

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UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging celebrates 40 years as an NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center

Oct 16, 2025, 7:20 AM

UK leadership, along with state and community leaders, joined members of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging to celebrate 40 years of continuous funding from the NIH for their revolutionary work in the field of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

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Prestigious NIA grant to launch new Sanders-Brown training initiative

Oct 14, 2025, 7:16 AM

A new five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging will launch the Kentucky Postbaccalaureate Alzheimer's Disease Research Education Program.

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