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Ticks emerging earlier than normal this year,
could cause problems, extension agents warn
Ticks – those small arachnids that live on the blood of mammals – typically begin to appear in late spring and early summer as warm weather sets in, but cases of the annual pest were reported three to four weeks …
UK students travel to Shanghai for 4-week
intensive program to study language, culture
With the school year freshly completed, 11 students in the College of Arts and Sciences are kicking off the summer in a unique way— with a 4-week intensive language and culture program in Shanghai, China. The faculty-led program, supported …
UK Theatre professor brings to life African voices in national project, play debuts in Fall
It was a standard work day for New York City construction workers in the fall of 1990. Expecting only to continue digging the foundation of what would become a Federal office building just a few blocks north of New …
WUKY seeks volunteers to help answer
calls, take pledges for Summer Fund Drive
Lexington and the University of Kentucky’s NPR Station, WUKY, will connect with listeners across Central Kentucky for its 2012 Summer Pledge Drive, Monday, May 21 through Friday, May 25. WUKY Radio is seeking groups, organizations and individuals who are …
Cervical Cancer Survivors, health advocates
identify prevention strategies at conference
Public health officials, cervical cancer survivors and public health advocates from across the state met in Bowling Green for two days for Cervical Cancer-Free Kentucky’s (CCFKY’s) second annual statewide conference. CCFKY is an initiative developed by the Rural Cancer …
Markey Cancer Center receives $6.25 million
to study deadly blood, bone marrow disease
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center announced today it is receiving more than $6 million to study a deadly blood and bone marrow disease often caused by chemotherapy or radiation treatments. A $5 million grant from the Edward P. …
UK professor’s salamander regeneration research may help heal spinal cord injuries
At any given time, hundreds of salamanders are being bred at the University of Kentucky. “We have the only captive-bred salamander population in the world where people can call us up, and we can do the breedings, make those …
Audrey Tayse Haynes to be inducted into
UK College of Social Work hall of fame
Audrey Tayse Haynes, Secretary for Cabinet of Health and Family Services will be inducted into the University of Kentucky’s College of Social Work hall of fame Thursday, May 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hilary J. Boone Center, 500 Rose …
UK junior awarded national scholarship to
study, travel in Japan during fall semester
Sarah Gooch, a University of Kentucky junior majoring in Japanese language and literature with a minor in anthropology, has been awarded a National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Scholarship to travel to Japan this fall. Gooch is one of 161 …
UK Opera theater gains 18 Yamaha Disklavier pianos, becomes largest user in academia
The University of Kentucky Opera theater has acquired 18 new pianos, setting a record as the single largest, single user of Yamaha Disklavier pianos in academia anywhere in the world. The dedication of the pianos on May 16 included …
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