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UK plans to reduce meal plan costs this fall by 5% through Enterprise Services Partnership

By Lindsay Travis

May 22, 2026

AKT Network

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 22, 2026) — When students have reliable access to affordable, healthy food, they are better able to learn, participate and succeed at every stage of life.

University of Kentucky sparks campus-wide innovation with Microsoft 365 Copilot

May 21, 2026, 10:43 AM

AKT Network

UK unified 150+ fragmented AI projects via the CATS AI framework. Standardizing on Microsoft AI, it reached 70,000+ users, reducing clinical documentation and doubling student productivity through a campus-wide 100% deployment. The university implemented the CATS AI governance framework and standardized on a Microsoft AI portfolio, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Dragon Copilot, and GitHub Copilot, all built on a secure Microsoft Azure foundation.

UK x Microsoft: CATS AI in Action Explore creativity, productivity, ethics and responsible AI

Feb 26, 2026, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

AKT Network

Artificial intelligence (AI) programs, partnerships and possibilities will take center stage during a campus AI showcase on Thursday, Feb. 26. The event — UK x Microsoft: CATS AI in Action — is free and open to all faculty, staff and students as well as community members. It will feature officials from both Microsoft and the University of Kentucky in a day of exploration and discovery at the Gatton Student Center.

UK, LifeSciKY partner to advance Kentucky’s life sciences innovation

Healthcare Access and Innovation

Jan 26, 2026

AKT Network

The University of Kentucky, through UK Innovate, has a new partnership with LifeSciKY, a nonprofit life sciences incubator, to accelerate innovation, research translation, startup growth and bioeconomy ecosystem development across Kentucky.

Transylvania, UK forge alliance to help advance Kentucky By Jay Blanton

Education and Opportunity Pathways

Jan 26, 2026

AKT Network

Transylvania is the first educational partner in the Advancing Kentucky Together Network — an initiative UK announced in October at the direction of its Board of Trustees to work with partners to be the institution that does more than any other in the country to advance the health of the state it serves.

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Jan 26, 2026, 10:20 AM

UK HealthCare receives prestigious Baby-Friendly designation

Oct 27, 2025, 12:40 PM

Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 27, 2025) — UK HealthCare has once again been awarded the prestigious international Baby-Friendly designation after a rigorous review process conducted by Baby-Friendly USA, the organization responsible for bestowing this certification in the United States. The hospital first received the designation in 2015.

A commonwealth of collaboration The big fight to save a little heart

Oct 22, 2025, 12:44 PM

Kentucky

Donald and Sarah Damron’s third baby was full of surprises. As they prepared to give their two girls a younger sibling, they opted not to find out the gender, instead saving that excitement for the day of the baby’s birth. Little did they know that would not be the biggest surprise of the day.

Rankin Heath Education Building gives opportunities for next generation of health providers, patients

Oct 20, 2025, 9:42 AM

Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 20, 2025) — As its great steel structure continues to rise toward the sky on the University of Kentucky campus, it is hard to miss the construction — and the excitement — of the Michael D. Rankin MD Health Education Building.

National study will test Markey-developed lung cancer screening program

Oct 20, 2025, 9:40 AM

Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 20, 2025) — 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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