Dr. Nathalia Vitoria Pereira Araujo has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on 11/4/20. Congratulations to her mentor, Dr. Vivek Rangnekar, and her committee members. Special thanks to our outside examiner, Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Latif.

Unconscious Bias: Anti-Asian Bashing in the Age of COVID

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020
4:30 p.m. 
Zoom

Speaker: Juju Chang, Emmy Award-winning co-anchor for ABC Nightline and Good Morning America.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 4, 2020) –  In America, 3.5 million people have epilepsy. Approximately one in 26 people in the United States will develop epilepsy at some point in their lifetime. In Kentucky, more than 2% of the population is living with this neurologic condition characterized by unpredictable seizures.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 2, 2020) — The University of Kentucky College of Medicine celebrated the LGBTQ* community this fall during its first annual Pride Week, made possible through a collaboration among the college’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, its newly established LGBTQ* Advisory Committee, and the UK medPRIDE student organization.

The UK College of Medicine hosted four days of events that gathered feedback, shared important local resources, and displayed the college’s commitment to continued progress toward inclusivity.

LEXINGTON, KY. (Oct. 27, 2020) — A $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is supporting a multidisciplinary team of University of Kentucky researchers in continuing their work to find therapeutic strategies to resolve neurovascular inflammation and repair blood-brain barrier dysfunction in epilepsy.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and UK Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences demonstrates the potential benefit of using an anti-leukemic drug nilotinib – most commonly used to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia – to overcome therapy resistance in metastatic melanoma.

What led you and Dr. Chapelin to this research topic?  When we started at University of Kentucky (UK) last fall, (August 2019), we saw two untapped potentials in the Department of Radiology and we jumped on board.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 2, 2020) — In celebration of National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and National Family Caregiver’s Month, from Wednesday, Nov. 4 to Friday, Nov. 6, the William T. Young Library will shine purple to show the University of Kentucky's commitment to a world without Alzheimer's disease and to commemorate the important work done by caregivers.

Each year at the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center – Diabetes and Obesity Research Day, researchers from the University of Kentucky and other regional institutes share their current findings and ongoing research about the alarming rise in obesity and diabetes rates. Presenters also discuss prevention and treatment of these epidemic-level diseases.

The Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC), in collaboration with the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, has selected five undergraduate students for the inaugural African American Research Training Scholars (AARTS) program.