The College of Medicine has announced its Wethington Award Policy for 2017.

The policy can be found on the COM Research webpage under Support.

Click here to read the full policy.

The University of Kentucky Wound Care Clinic and Department of Surgery recently added a new full time provider, Sharon Pelfrey, APRN, to its roster of specialized professional caregivers.

The URM Program was designed to provide students who receive minority fellowships with a mentor. The program was launched in Fall 2016 and will continue to grow and improve. The mentees are graduate students who either receive the Lyman T. Johnson Fellowship, the Southern Regional Education Board Fellowship, or the Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering Fellowship. The mentors are professors throughout the university who willingly volunteered to participate in the program.

Testimonial from Cheavar Blair - 

This funding mechanism provides a new opportunity and resources to support innovative, collaborative research projects that will identify, develop, test, evaluate and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices (e.g.

In accordance with NOT-OD-17-001, (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-17- 001.html), NIH is currently operating under the Fiscal Year 2017 Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (H.R. 5325). Therefore, NIH will issue non-competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated on the most recent Notice of Award.

Sponsored Research Administrative Services recently presented a deck of slides with guidance related to booking travel for non-employees.  The document contains a wealth of information including g/l information.  To view the slides, click here

This information as well as other documents can be found on the SRAS Useful Information Page.  Click here to view the page. 

Nominate your research mentor for recognition at this year’s CCTS Spring Conference.

Expand your career coaching, leadership and mentoring skills to serve scientists from under-represented groups with this free, interactive program.

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Professional Mentoring Skill Enhancing Diversity (PROMISED)

PROMISED is for mentors at the late Assistant Professor level or above.

Fellows receive...

  • Face-to-face instruction on how to be a career coach
  • Training through a series of one-month, online modules
  • CME/CEU credit and certificates

Apply before February 15, 2017