Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians.

You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can’t find enough workers in those fields, and the country’s competitive edge is threatened.

The University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute and the UK Saha Cardiovascular Research Center will host the 16th Annual Gill Heart Cardiovascular Research Day, Oct. 11, at the Lexington Convention Center. Gill Heart Insitute Cardiovascular Research Day annually attracts preeminent speakers in the field of cardiology and cardiovascular research. It also features a symposium for trainee researchers, a scientific poster session, and the presentation of the annual Saha Awards for medical and nursing education. This year, speakers include Dr.

The University of Kentucky Pediatrics Residency Program is committed to achieving excellence in patient care and medical education at both the graduate and postgraduate level. We have a superb training program designed to give a solid foundation in General Pediatrics and prepare you for fellowship, a career in private practice or academic medicine depending on your interests. We are a referral center for eastern and central Kentucky and care for patients with a wide spectrum of acute and chronic illness.
Kentucky Homeplace has been awarded a second gift of $150,000 from the Anthem Foundation to continue work on a special research project," Improving Diabetes Outcomes Phase Two (I DO 2)." The gift enables Kentucky Homeplace to expand the work in diabetes self-management education (DSME) that it began with the first gift received from the Anthem foundation in 2011, said William Mace Baker, director of Kentucky Homeplace. The DSME model involves Kentucky Homeplace community health workers (CHWs) supporting nurse-led education modules.
By Chris Ritchie, Editor, Hazard Herald Researchers with the University of Kentucky are set to begin a study this month to evaluate the effectiveness of smoking cessation when coupled with weight management, and they’re looking for local residents to take part. In 2012 Kentucky recorded the highest rate of smoking in the nation, and the 10th highest rate of obesity.

NIH offers a large a variety of social media outlets to help investigators stay informed.  Follow this link to a summary page of the many outlets NIH is using to increase communication.   

In July, the University of Kentucky's Jennifer Havens sat on a panel in Washington D.C., addressing the current U.S. congressional ban on federal funding of syringe services programs (SSPs) advocating that releasing the ban will positively affect the rising abuse issue. Havens stated that releasing the ban would create a positive effect on the fight against rising injectable drug abuse levels in Kentucky and throughout the nation. Havens is an epidemiologist in the UK College of Medicine Department of Behavioral Science.

From NIH Email - NIH eSubmission Items of Interest - August 21, 2013

Are you ready for our move to updated electronic application forms (FORMS-C)?

We’ve been busy preparing for our transition to updated application forms for most grant programs (NOT-OD-13-074). Our FOAs now have FORMS-C application packages and old B1 and B2 packages have been set to expire.

Here are some updated resources you may want to check out:

The NIH webinar, “Using ASSIST to Prepare and Submit Multi-Project Applications to NIH,” as presented on August 13 is now available for viewing at the following link:  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/webinar_docs/webinar_20130813.htm.  If you are thinking of submitting a multi-project application for an upcoming deadline, take some time to view this presentation and/or the associated PowerPoint slides also available at this link.  NIH will require electronic submission for all P01, P20, P50 and U19 appl