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

Jul 22, 2025, 4:00 PM

Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 22, 2025) – The University of Kentucky Physician Assistant Studies (PA) department is proud to announce its continued partnership with UK St. Claire in a groundbreaking initiative to address Kentucky’s rural health care workforce shortage. The collaboration has been strengthened by the recent awarding of the Healthcare Workforce Investment Fund (HWIF) Partnership Proposal from the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE).

Kentucky 4-H camps help Kentuckians, communities flourish

Jul 22, 2025, 3:56 PM

Kentucky

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

Jul 22, 2025, 3:51 PM

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 

Jul 21, 2025, 4:19 PM

Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 21, 2025) — The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand reopening of its newly renovated research facilities, marking a major milestone in the center’s decades-long mission to advance brain health and aging research. The $28 million renovation project, which concluded earlier this month, modernized three floors of research space within the Sanders-Brown building located on UK’s campus next to the Kentucky Clinic

UK HealthCare helps get Kentucky state trooper back on his feet

Jul 16, 2025, 3:58 PM

Kentucky

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.

Markey researcher showcases immunology-driven radiation therapy at major international conference

Jul 11, 2025, 4:25 PM

Biomedical Research

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 11, 2025) — University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Centerresearcher Weisi Yan, M.D., Ph.D., recently shared his work on radiation therapy at a major international conference, showcasing how new techniques could better protect patients’ immune systems while fighting cancer.

Helping the heart heal itself — UK researchers lead new treatment effort

Jun 30, 2025, 4:22 PM

Biomedical Research

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 30, 2025) — It’s a frightening statistic: someone in the U.S. has a heart attack every 40 seconds. For many Kentuckians, the risk is even higher due to widespread health challenges like obesity, smoking and chronic illness.

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

Jun 23, 2025, 10:26 AM

Kentucky

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.

‘Putting all the pieces of Extension together’: Water conservation practices in full display at local farm

Jun 19, 2025, 10:23 AM

Kentucky

PARIS, Ky. (June 26, 2025) — “It’s important to protect the waters that provide us drinking water,” said Amanda Gumbert, extension water quality specialist in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE), project lead and principal investigator (PI) of two grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that supported her research.

From studio to service: UK students use design build to help flood-prone communities

Jun 13, 2025, 9:05 AM

Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 13, 2025) — In Kentucky, where devastating floods have displaced families and reshaped landscapes, the University of Kentucky is reaffirming its commitment to the people of the Commonwealth. As part of UK’s land-grant mission to advance the state through collaboration, education and outreach, students and faculty from the UK College of Design are partnering with the UK Cooperative Extension Service to address housing challenges in Eastern Kentucky.

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