In an effort to be fair to all, NIH has been consistently applying its standards for application compliance.  This consistency means that some applications recently have been rejected due to non-compliance.  Issues that can lead NIH to reject an application include but are no limited to:

 Sixty-three-year old Tom Wall had had enough.

His high blood pressure had persisted for more than 20 years.  His diabetes was worsening.  He'd gone from a prescription of just one drug, to two, then to three, and finally four. He'd taken early retirement from his job as a bank equipment repairman because he had trouble climbing into his van. Then, when he had trouble getting to his beloved garden at his farm in Nicholasville, he decided to take control.

By Josh Shepherd
University of Kentucky Department of Surgery

The 2016 Greater Bluegrass Signature Chefs Auction set a new fundraising record for this event on Friday night, Nov. 4, at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort, according to Dr. Joe Iocono, division chief of UK Pediatric Surgery, who served as the event chair this year.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 3, 2016) —The second annual Thomas V. Getchell, Ph.D., Memorial Award for excellence in grant writing was presented to Jenna Gollihue, a graduate student in the University of Kentucky Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, on Nov. 2. The award honors the memory of Getchell, a former professor of physiology in the UK Department of Physiology who encouraged researchers to improve grant writing skills to acquire research funding. The award supports a travel stipend for a student participating in the annual Grant Writing Workshop.