Research Leadership Academy Events

Transforming tomorrow by Expanding Across the Spectrum of Research

Emerging Themes for Research Events

  • Emerging Themes for Research events are designed to showcase and discuss the latest advances and highlight cutting-edge research across fields of study associated with the emerging themes. The purpose of these events is to foster collaboration, identify emerging trends, and facilitate knowledge transfer.

The following events are open for UK faculty, trainees, and staff to attend:

 
  • February 26, 2025

    • Bioelectronics and Nanomedicine Summer Research Program Info Session
      12 pm via Zoom https://uky.zoom.us/j/81217960102

      • The Bioelectronics and Nanomedicine Research Center is offering another info session about their summer research program where undergraduate and graduate students can have 10 paid weeks of summer research. Joint applications involving several research groups are highly encouraged! Applications are due Wednesday, March 5.

      • Visit the website to learn more

  • March 5, 2025

    • Food as Health Symposium
      9 am-5 pm, Longship Club at Kroger Field 1540 University Drive

      • The Food as Health Alliance is excited to present our first Food as Health Symposium! This free one-day event will allow participants to learn from leading Food is Medicine experts from across the country and from Kentucky. We will have speakers from industry, health care, health insurance, community-based organizations, and leading researchers. We will explore how FIM can address food and nutrition security and improve health outcomes in our state. This event is free and open to the public.

      • Register for the symposium

      • View the flyer

Announcements

  • Instruction on Gender in Data Collection Per Executive Orders
    Office of Research Integrity, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, Vice President For Research
    The U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice is providing the following instruction and procedures and is seeking award information on or related to surveys, forms, or other data collection tools that ask about “gender” or “gender identity.”
  • Spring 2025 Lunch & Learn Series | February 12
    College of Public Health, Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, Vice President For Research

    The Office of the Vice President for Research Lunch & Learn series continues at noon on zoom.

  • New NIH Genomics Data Management Policy
    College of Medicine, Vice President For Research

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued updated data management policies, which introduce new security standards in the Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy.

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