LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 12, 2021) — The University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES), in partnership with the Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH), recently announced the nominees and the winner of the 2021 Community Engagement Award in Environmental Health.
Recent Study Identifies 11 Candidate Genetic Variants for Alzheimer’s Disease
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 13, 2021) — A recently published study co-authored by University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging researcher Justin Miller, Ph.D., identifies 11 rare candidate variants for Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found 19 different families in Utah that suffered from Alzheimer’s disease more frequently than what is considered normal.
Center Advisory Board Member Dr. Beverly May Receives 2021 Community Engagement Award
Center Leader Dr. Wayne Sanderson Receives 2021 UK Great Teacher Award
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 6, 2021) — Six of the University of Kentucky’s passionate and accomplished educators were surprised earlier this spring by student nominators and the University of Kentucky Alumni Association as 2021 Great Teacher Award recipients.
Publications for the month of June 2021
The Department had twelve publications listed in PubMed for the month of June 2021.
1: Jin H, Moseley HNB. Hierarchical Harmonization of Atom-Resolved Metabolic Reactions across Metabolic Databases. Metabolites. 2021 Jun 30;11(7):431. doi: 10.3390/metabo11070431. PMID: 34209357.
UK Healthcare Merges Art and Science With the Opening of New Aesthetics Center
By Grace Colville for UKnow
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Deciding to make cosmetic enhancements to the face or body is a personal decision that cannot be made lightly. UK Healthcare is making this experience as stress-free as possible with the opening of the new location of the Aesthetics Center at the Turfland campus.
Learning Communities Help UK Medical Students Build Stronger Connections, Grow Professionally
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine has implemented a system to enhance the medical student experience and ensure optimum professional development, career advising, social connectedness, and wellness during medical school.
Virtual Trauma Informed Care Summit held
This article was originally published in the Hazard Herald, Thursday, June 24, 2021 edition, Page 11A. Republished with permission.
BY KATIE KELLEY
STAFF WRITER, HAZARD HERALD
On June 16, a virtual “Trauma Informed Care Summit” was held in partnership between Save the Children, the Kentucky River Health Consortium and University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health. Among the topics discussed in the summit were how different risk factors and life choices can impact the development of a child.
Beverly May Receives 2021 UK-CARES Community Engagement Award
The University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES), in partnership with the Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH), recently announced the nominees and the winner of the 2021 Community Engagement Award in Environmental Health.
UK-ADRC Development Project Program
The UK-ADRC Development Project Program is a newly established pilot program supported by our NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (UK-ADRC) grant P30 AG072946. The program is aimed at junior
investigators (postdoctoral fellows, assistant professors, senior research associates, or clinical fellows) and will provide pilot grant support for research in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias. Awards are intended to provide seed funding for novel hypotheses that lead to national-level funding of an expanded research plan based on the pilot work.
Congratulations to Dr. James Drury!
The department would like to congratulate Dr. James Drury on his successful defense on his PhD dissertation this morning.
We would also like to congratulate his mentor, Dr. Kate Zaytseva, and his committee members.
