UK's Impact Across Kentucky

UK’s Estate Whiskey Alliance® announces 1st awardees in research grant program

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 18, 2025) — The University of Kentucky’s Estate Whiskey Alliance^® (EWA) has announced the first awardees of its research grant program.

Markey patient cancer-free after same-day lung cancer diagnosis and treatment

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 14, 2025) — Last year, Lisa Buede made the decision to get screened for lung cancer, knowing she was eligible due to her smoking history: The 59-year-old Lexington resident had been a smoker since she was 14 years old.

UK’s Brent Seales, global team secure Europe’s top research grant to digitally decode Herculaneum scrolls

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 28, 2025) — Brent Seales, heritage science chair in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky, has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant as part of an international team seeking to unlock the secrets of the Herculaneum scrolls.

‘So special and so effective’: UK Research and Education Center, community continue impactful relationship

Health Sciences, UK St. Claire partner to build rural health care workforce with CPE award

Kentucky 4-H camps help Kentuckians, communities flourish

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 22, 2025) — Each summer, thousands of Kentuckians attend a Kentucky 4-H camp, but to many it’s “more than just camp.”  “It’s a place where children find friendship, growth and lifelong memories,” said Alyssa Canupp, a Harrison County teacher and 4-H camp counselor. “It’s a place that plants seeds of leadership and passion that flourish for years to come.”

‘Behind the Blue’: From awareness to action, expanding access to AEDs in Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 22, 2025) – Each year in the U.S., more than 350,000 people experience sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital. Survival in these moments depends on two critical factors: immediate bystander response and access to life-saving technology. Yet in many communities — especially in rural or under-resourced areas — those tools remain out of reach.

UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging celebrates reopening of renovated research facilities 

UK HealthCare helps get Kentucky state trooper back on his feet

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 16, 2025) — Audra Hillerman felt uneasy. Her son, Kentucky State Trooper Logan Hillerman, hadn’t held up his end of their almost-daily routine. “Usually I text him, every shift before he’d go out on the road, ‘Be safe,’ and he’d always say, ‘I love you,’” Audra said. “I never got that text that day. When I had a call come and it said it was from the Kentucky State Police, I knew something was wrong. I didn’t have good phone service, and all I could hear was, ‘Trooper Hillerman has been involved in a serious accident.’ I fell apart.”

‘Wine that’s grown here tastes like Kentucky’: UK enologist shares about research, teaching at UK Winery

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 23, 2025) — The University of Kentucky Horticulture Research Farm sits on the corner of Nicholasville Road and Man o’ War Boulevard in Lexington. The farm is 100 acres of land that Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) faculty, students and UK Cooperative Extension Service staff use to conduct research and offer educational opportunities.