The University of Kentucky Department of Biological Safety would like to invite you to register for the following seminar:

 

By March 25, 2016, NIH will release the new FORMS D packet to accommodate the updated requirements for applications due on or after May 25, 2016. 

The changes in the new FORMS D packet focus on the following areas:

The deadline to submit an abstract for the CCTS Spring Conference and cooperating conferences has been extended (for most sessions*) to Friday, April 1, 2016. 

When asking friends about their vacation to South America, one doesn’t expect stories about ear reconstructions, cleft lip and palate repairs, or accounts of people with severe burn scars finally getting treatment. But those are the memories that several UK physicians and residents brought back with them after a week of volunteer medical service with Medical Mission Ecuador (MME) last March. And while they weren’t typical vacation memories, each one was worth keeping and sharing.

For medical students, there is one day a year that means as much, and might be as stressful, as all the exams and studying. After four years of medical school, and numerous interviews, medical students find out where they will spend the next years of their lives in residency programs. Match Day is a culmination of the hard work and dreams of students on the path to becoming doctors.

This story was originally published on UKNow.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 25, 2016) — When you ask Brett Spear about what he most admires in his wife and colleague, Martha Peterson, a smile instantly appears on his face.

When you ask Brett Spear about what he most admires in his wife and colleague, Martha Peterson, a smile instantly appears on his face.

The pair, both professors in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department ofMicrobiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, has been married for 32 years and has two sons. Yet, because they have different last names, not everyone on campus recognizes their connection. 

OSPA recently published instructions allowing PIs to track their own eIAFs.  To access the instructions, follow the link below.

http://www.research.uky.edu/ospa/info/docs/OSPA%20PI%20Tracking%20Report%20Instructions.pdf

 

 

Students, staff, faculty and friends are invited to attend the Sue Fosson Spring Humanities Festival: A Celebration of the Arts. The event will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., March 23 in the University of Kentucky Singletary Center for the Arts. Faculty and staff from across the UK HealthCare clinical enterprise and the health professions colleges, including students from the College of Medicine and the College of Pharmacy, will be performing. There will be music, dancing, poetry reading, and even magic. It will be an evening full of wonderful entertainment.