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NEURO Scholars Fellowship Program

Sep 18, 2020

The NRPA Enrichment for Underrepresented Opportunity (NEURO) Scholars program is a fellowship program to support exceptional neuroscience students from underrepresented groups as defined by the NIH. These include individuals from racial and ethnic minorities, with disabilities, and those from disadvantaged backgrounds (https://diversity.nih.gov/about-us/population-underrepresented).

Jake Higgins

Week 3 Sep 14, 2020

Faculty Mentor of the Week Fall 2020 | Week 3 --- Dr. Jacob Higgins is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing and a Nurse Scientist in UK HealthCare. Thank you Dr. Higgins for your unwavering support of undergraduate research at the University of Kentucky. We are pleased to recognize your dedication this week as our Research Faculty Mentor of the Week.

Sihui (Echo) Ke

Week 2 Sep 7, 2020

Faculty Mentor of the Week Fall 2020 | Week 2 --- Dr. Sihui (Echo) Ke is an Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Bilingual and Biliteracy Research Lab. Thank you Dr. Ke for your unwavering support of undergraduate research at the University of Kentucky. We are pleased to recognize your dedication this week as our Research Faculty Mentor of the Week.

Brent Harrison

Week 1 Aug 31, 2020

Faculty Mentor of the Week Fall 2020 | Week 1 --- Dr. Brent Harrison is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Director of the CORGI (Computational Research in Games and Intelligence) Lab. Thank you Dr. Harrison for your unwavering support of undergraduate research at the University of Kentucky. We are pleased to recognize your dedication this week as our Research Faculty Mentor of the Week.

Madeline Williams

Aug 8, 2020

Madeline Williams is a junior Sociology and Political Science major with Anthropology and Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies minors. She is working with her mentor Dr. Lauren Cagle this summer on her research project "Loneliness during Mass Social Distancing: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Loneliness in College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Alexis Taylor

Aug 7, 2020

Alexis Taylor is a junior Biology major with Family Sciences and Community & Leadership Development minors. She is working with her mentor Dr. Jeffrey Osborn this summer on her research project "Identifying Genetic Loci in the African Green Monkey that Associate with Hypertension"

Binit Bipul Singh

Aug 6, 2020

Binit Singh is a junior Mechanical Engineering major. He is working with his mentor Dr. Nelson K. Akafuah this summer on his research project "An Approach to Solve Gas Turbine Problems by Integrating It with Concentrated Solar Cells"

Connection between dance, medicine, research

Dancing Wildcats Enjoy Smoother Transition to the Field of Medicine

By Mark Mozingo Aug 6, 2020

The connection between art and medicine has been a focus of medical education institutions for decades.

UK student Mirindi Kabangu conducts research in the Randal Voss lab.

UK Research Center Establishes Scholar Program to Promote Diversity in Neurotrauma Studies

By Hillary Smith Aug 6, 2020

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 6, 2020) — For a couple of years now members of the University of Kentucky Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC), in collaboration with UK College of Arts and Sciences, have been working to increase the representation of Black undergraduate students in neuroscience.

Lucinda Smith superfund summer research Eastern KY

Project Allows UK Student to Positively Impact her Community

By Katie Pratt Aug 6, 2020

UK student Lucinda Smith, a senior human nutrition major from Corbin, Kentucky, has participated in research and outreach projects that show the health benefits of blackberries to people who live near Superfund sites. Photo submitted.

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