The Sponsored Research Administrative Services office will observe the official University holiday schedule and will be closed as follows:

Thursday, November 27, 2014 and Friday, November 28, 2014;
and Thursday, December 25, 2014, through January 2, 2015 (reopening Monday, January, 5, 2015).

The Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA) will also observe these holidays. If you will require proposal assistance during these times, please make advance arrangements with your GPS.

On Oct. 2, 2014, Southern KY AHEC hosted its first preceptor development workshop.  Providers from the Tri-County area were invited to London to attend Efficient Precepting:  Time Management and Medical Records Documentation for Community Teaching Physicians to help answer questions like:

 University of Kentucky College of Medicine assistant professors Dr. Angela Korrect Webb, and her husband, Dr. Jonathan Webb, have ties to the University of Kentucky that go back to when they first began dating during their college years.  

While attending Belmont University, Angela, a Nashville native, searched for the perfect shirt to give Jonathan for his birthday.  When his roommate let her into their dorm room to see what color was missing from Jonathan's closet, it quickly became clear to her what she should choose.

Sterling Heights, Mich. (November 3, 2014) – Ernie Scott, director of the Kentucky Office of Rural Health (KORH), has received the 2014 Emerging Leader Award from the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH).  Scott received his award at a ceremony on October 28th during the organization’s annual conference in Omaha, Nebraska.

Finding out your child is seriously ill would be heartrending for any parent. But what if your child became gravely ill at just 15 days old, and medical professionals gave you little hope that he would survive? What if those first few years passed, and your child never took his first steps and you had limited or no access to medical care?

Most federally-funded grants are currently governed in part by a section of the Code of Federal Regulations known as “Uniform Guidance.”  These regulations address, amongst other things, the allocation of costs to projects.  Uniform Guidance states: “If a cost benefits two or more projects or activities in proportions that can be determined without undue effort or cost, the cost should be allocated to the projects based on the proportional benefit.”  If the proportional benefit cannot be determined because of the interrelationship of the work, the costs