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CCTS Conference on Opioids Draws Nearly 1,000 Participants

The 13th Annual Spring Conference of the University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science focused on addressing the opioid epidemic, which disproportionately plagues Kentucky and Appalachia. Researchers, clinicians, students, community partners and local and national experts gathered Friday, April 13th to share findings and catalyze

3 UK Students Awarded Research Internships in Germany

Three UK students, Mohanad Abdallah, Emily Major and Jared Schmal, have been selected to receive Research Internships in Science and Engineering from the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).

Over 100 Inventors Honored at UK’s Patent Palooza

Last week, the UK Office of Technology Commercialization held its second annual Patent Palooza, an event that celebrates the university's inventors and commercialization deals of the previous fiscal year.

Caltech Physicist to Deliver Public Lecture on Quantum Computing

The talk, “Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier,” will take place 4:15 p.m. Friday, April 6, in the Jacobs Science Building auditorium. The talk is jointly sponsored by the UK Department of Physics and Astronomy, the UK Department of Computer Science and the UK Graduate School.

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

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.

Impressive Undergraduate Researchers Take Work to State Capitol

Sixteen UK undergraduate researchers presented their research at the 17th annual Posters-at-the-Capitol in Frankfort on Feb. 8. Each had a chance to share their research with UK President Eli Capilouto as well as several state legislators.

How is UK Moving Up Nationally in Research?

Federal research funding has been flat nationally, but you wouldn't know it by UK's funding numbers, which show three consecutive years of growth.

UK Professor Named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Y.T. Cheng, a professor in the UK College of Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences, has received the highest professional accolade bestowed solely to academic inventors.

Gutierrez Wins UK's Third Wetterhahn Memorial Award From Superfund Research Program

Angela Gutierrez is the third UK student to receive the Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award. Bradley Newsome won in 2014 and Nicki Baker in 2012.

Winners of Oswald Research, Creativity Competition Named

UK’s Office of Undergraduate Research recently announced the student winners of the 53rd annual Oswald Research and Creativity Competition.