"Go Red for Women" Celebrates Women's Heart Health at Gill Heart Institute
Team Surgery Shenanigans to take Polar Plunge this month; March for Babies in May
Team Surgery Shenanigans is several hundred dollars short of its $850 goal to support Special Olympics Kentucky, but team leader Pete Rogers is optimistic that the goal will be met before he takes a dive - or cannonball, he hasn't decided - on Saturday, February 20.
Rogers, division administrator for Urology, Pediatric Surgery, and ENT, established Team Surgery Shenanigans as a way for the UK surgery departments to band together and participate in charitable outreach programs. The Polar Plunge is the inaugural event for the team.
New SCoBIRC Award Announced to Attend Neurotrauma 2016
Thanks to support from the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust, we are pleased to offer $150 Awards to students, postdocs, and other researchers at the University of Kentucky who will be submitting an abstract to the National Neurotrauma Society meeting. This award is to cover a portion of the registration cost. Faculty are not eligible.
SRAS Offers Training Sessions on SPA Financial Reports
Please join Gina Vessels, SRAS Post Award Manager, on the second Thursday each month for one of our upcoming informational sessions on the monthly financial reports distributed by Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) for grant accounts. There will be a general review of the report structure and discussion of the information within the report, and there will be ample time for questions and discussion after the presentation.
Mary Vore, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology Retires
From left to right: Drs. Kathy O’Connor, Hollie Swanson, Doug Andres, Jim Geddes, Mary Vore, Daret St. Clair and Nada Porter.
Dean Fred deBeer thanking Mary for her many years of service to U.K.
Acknowledging Mary's contributions to the Department
Recognition from the women faculty of U.K.
A gift to Mary. Now she'll have more time to tend to her own roses!
Community Transition Program Supports Stroke Survivors in Eastern Kentucky
Lexington, Ky. (Jan. 29, 2016) – Life after a stroke can be a big adjustment for both a patient and their family. Speech, walking, coordination — tasks once simple, nearly automatic— become difficult or impossible after a stroke. Meanwhile, health care after a stroke can get complicated, especially if someone also has conditions like diabetes or heart disease. In a rural setting, the distance from doctors and resources exacerbates these challenges.
Gill Goes Red: Heart-Healthy Tips, Treats and Prizes on Feb. 5
Ambati Laboratory Discovers New Antibody Function
Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series Presents Dr. Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD
The 2016 AOA Groves Memorial M.D./Ph.D. Program Student Research Symposium and Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series presents Dr. Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD: chief of the gastrointestinal unit and director of the Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as well as the Kurt Isselbacher Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
UK Scientist Profiles Get 324,000 Views on LabTV
Over the last six months, videos of 22 biomedical researchers from the University of Kentucky, featured on the national website LabTV, have garnered 324,000 views.
LabTV.com features thousands of researchers working at dozens of leading universities, corporations, and the National Institutes of Health. In these videos medical researchers tell where they came from, how they chose their career, what they do each day in the lab, and why they love it.
