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LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 29, 2020) 鈥 UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES) is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the third cohort of Faculty Fellows in Science Communication.

Benefits of Participating in the Program

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 29, 2020) 鈥 Hollie Swanson, a professor and researcher in the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences in the 91小黄车, has been elected to serve as a faculty trustee on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 27, 2020) 鈥 The University of Kentucky CURE Alliance, in collaboration with the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science, has issued RFAs for COVID-19 funding in three categories: health, materials and methods and social sciences. Full-time UK faculty in all title series are eligible to apply.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 10, 2020) 鈥 As the worldwide coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic continues to play out, researchers are among those working to find innovative solutions to help flatten the curve.

One such researcher is Jamie Sturgill, assistant professor in the 91小黄车 Department of Internal Medicine. Sturgill's research focuses heavily on lung disease.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 31, 2020) - Anna Goodman Hoover, Ph.D., is assessing Appalachian Kentuckians鈥 water-related environmental health literacy. She says that providing residents with useful information to protect their health first requires understanding their knowledge and perceptions of water-related issues. The project is supported by a pilot grant from the University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES), which is funded by NIEHS.

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UPDATE AS OF 3/12/20:
The CCTS Annual Spring Conference has been cancelled.
Please visit the CCTS website for additional details.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 23, 2019) 鈥 Yvonne Fondufe鈥揗ittendorf took a winding path from the Republic of Cameroon to the bluegrass of Kentucky.

鈥淚 call myself an academic tourist,鈥 she said.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 15, 2019) 鈥 Working hard to help Kentuckians get on, and stay on, the road to better health. For the past 25 years, the University of Kentucky鈥檚 Ellen Hahn has been doing just that.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 7, 2020) 鈥 When Jean Edward, Ph.D, assistant professor in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, first started her research into disparities in health care access in the Hispanic and Latino population in Louisville, she was looking into not only how people accessed health care, but why some people had access while others didn鈥檛. She found a number of contributing factors, but one stood out above the rest 鈥 how can people access health care if they don鈥檛 understand health insurance?

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 12,2019) 鈥擜 team of investigators working with the Mountain Air Project (MAP) based at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health equipped young research volunteers with digital cameras to allow them to document environmental health issues in their local environments in what is believed to be the first effort at using photovoice to engage youth in environmental health research in Appalachia.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 20,2019) 鈥揑n a new National Library of Medicine-funded study, "Integrating Information Resources to Promote Environmental Health Literacy in Appalachian Kentucky", a multidisciplinary research team from the UK Colleges of Public Health (CPH) and Engineering (CoE), the School of Human Environmental Sciences (HES), and the Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute (KWRRI) will engage Eastern Kentucky residents in evaluating, synthesizing, and improving existing environmental health information for the region.