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

Feb 26, 2026, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

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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.

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

Healthcare Access and Innovation

Jan 26, 2026

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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.

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

Education and Opportunity Pathways

Jan 26, 2026

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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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