By Jenny Wells
Ann Morris, an associate professor of biology in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, has received $1.87 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue her cutting-edge research in retinal development and regeneration.
By Eliana Shapere
“People have been searching for an EDM (Electric Dipole Moment) of the neutron since 1950. We are trying harder and harder to find the needle in the haystack. If it were discovered at the anticipated level of sensitivity and accuracy that experiments can obtain now, it would be completely revolutionary. It would be evidence for physics that we can’t currently describe theoretically.”
The Appalachian Center will host a series of weekly drop-in Coffee Hours Thursdays, 10-11 am through the end of the semester. The Center invites students, faculty, staff, and community members for coffee and light refreshments. Come visit with others interested in the region and learn more about the work of the Appalachian Center and the Appalachian Studies Program. The Center invites ideas for programs, initiatives, and events. Coffee Hour is a space to exchange ideas, discuss regional issues and events, and share research in a casual, collegial atmosphere.
By Dave Melanson
Yang Song, a doctoral student in the UK Department of Chemistry and researcher in at the UK Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), helped lead the research effort on this project.
By Gail Hairston
The University of Kentucky Alumni Association — with a committee chaired by UK Associate Provost for Faculty Advancement G.T. Lineberry — regularly honors outstanding UK faculty members with the UK Alumni Professorship Award.
On Monday, October 1 at 6:00 p.m., Dr. Kaila Adia Story will present “The Fight for our Freedom Starts with Ourselves: How Black and Latinx Queer and Trans Folks have Changed the Ideological and Sociopolitical Contours of America” in the Auditorium.
Dr. Story’s multimedia and interactive discussion will focus on the works and activism of Miss Major, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Shane Ortega. All of whom have worked and continue to work to foreground their intersectional identities and experiences within their works and activism to reiterate how the fight for our freedom starts with ourselves.
By Carl Nathe
Christopher Barton with stream monitoring equipment in Robinson Forest. Photo by Matt Barton, UK Ag Communications.
By Olivia Ramirez and Kody KiserBy Olivia Ramirez and Kody Kiser
As the university for Kentucky, understanding and addressing the health needs of the people of the Commonwealth is the goal of many faculty, staff, clinicians and researchers. As a step toward improving health equity in the Commonwealth, the University of Kentucky Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET) was established during the 2018 Board of Trustees meeting.
By Olivia Ramirez and Kody Kiser
