LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 29, 2020) — Hollie Swanson, a professor and researcher in the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences in the College of Medicine, has been elected to serve as a faculty trustee on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.
Kentucky Homeplace CHWs Assist Clients to complete the 2020 Census
Kentucky Homeplace Community Health Workers (CHWs) are working remotely to assist clients with a wide range of important services during COVID-19, including helping people complete their 2020 Census online.
Faculty Fellow Dr. Jeannette Sutton Receives Funding to Study Risk Communication on Twitter During Pandemic
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 30, 2020) —Jeannette Sutton, an associate professor of communication in the University of Kentucky’s College of Communication and Information, has recently been awarded more than $93,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study risk communication on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She’ll explore how public health, emergency management and government agencies can best communicate about risk and public health in a continuously evolving information landscape.
Having a stroke and COVID-19; is there a correlation?
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — A disturbing trend has been noticed by several doctors in a handful of hospitals in America. Otherwise healthy men in the 20-50 age range, with little to no COVID-19 symptoms, are landing in the emergency room after suffering a stroke. Some of these victims fall into a category of least-likely-to-suffer-a stroke, with most happening in those who are well below the median age for sustaining such a medical episode.
“Anybody, from babies to folks in their very elderly years,” Dr. Larry Goldstein said of the risk of suffering a stroke.
Hollie Swanson Wins Election for UK Faculty Trustee
Hollie Swanson, a professor and researcher in the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences in the College of Medicine, has been elected to serve as a faculty trustee on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees. Under University Senate rules, Swanson was the top vote getter among three candidates in the election completed last week.
"It is an honor and a privilege to be able to represent the UK faculty as their representative on the Board of Trustees,” Swanson said.
New $6.6 Million UK Study Could Change What We Know About Platelets
University of Kentucky College of Medicine researcher Sidney Whiteheart has been awarded a prestigious Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute (NHBLI) for his research on how platelets function in hemostasis and during immune responses.
The $6.6 million grant will fund the Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry professor’s research over the next seven years.
The study, which Whiteheart is leading in collaboration with researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and the University of Pennsylvania,
Call for Nominations Due May 11 for Faculty Fellows in Science Communication
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 29, 2020) — UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES) is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the third cohort of Faculty Fellows in Science Communication.
Pilot Grantee and Interest Group Leader Dr. Hollie Swanson Wins Election for UK Faculty Trustee
Following in Father's Footsteps, Bushra Manzar Explores Rural Medicine
Bushra Manzar was in her first year at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, standing with some of her peers, when she pulled out her driver’s license, and her friends noticed a stark difference – that her license was vertical, and their licenses were horizontal.
And that’s when they found out that Bushra had an accelerated start to her medical education.
Pilot Funding Available for COVID-19 Research in Health, Materials and Methods and Social Sciences
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 27, 2020) – The University of Kentucky CURE Alliance, in collaboration with the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science, has issued RFAs for COVID-19 funding in three categories: health, materials and methods and social sciences. Full-time UK faculty in all title series are eligible to apply.
McConnell Announces UK to Receive $3.8 Million from CARES Act
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health will receive $3,878,582 to bolster the healthcare efforts of 46 rural hospitals in combating the coronavirus pandemic. These federal funds, distributed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration, were made available by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
