[From UK Environmental Health and Safety]

Environmental Health and Safety division is providing laboratory safety training for all high school students that will be coming to campus to do research.   The training will take place on Tuesday, June 17^th, from 1 to 4 in 323 of the CRMS (Robotics Building – Building # 108 on the campus map).

 Covered Topics will be: 

Laboratory Safety Training/Chemical Hygiene Plan
Hazardous Waste Management
Fire Extinguisher Training
Biohazard Safety Training

Hepatic scavenger receptor BI protects against polymicrobial-induced sepsis through promoting LPS clearance in mice. Guo L, Zheng Z, Ai J, Huang B, Li XA. J Biol Chem. 2014 Apr 9. [Epub] PMID: 24719333

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There are many families across campus, around the state and throughout the world that share deep University of Kentucky connections. 

 “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the nation’s leading provider of water-based outdoor recreation, with more than 400 lake and river projects in 44 states, including Buckhorn and Carr Creek Lakes here in eastern Kentucky,” said Samantha Bachelder, a park ranger at Buckhorn Lake State Park.

The University of Kentucky Center for Health Services Research is Applying Research to Optimize Care^© to become a learning health system.

 Hazard, Ky. (May 20, 2014) –  The University of Kentucky (UK) Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) recognized the 2014 graduates of UK’s College of Social Work Master of Social Work program offered in Southeast Kentucky (SEKY MSW).  Family members and friends gathered at the Perry County Central Auditorium in Hazard on May 16 to honor the 13 graduates during a commencement and community celebration.