Educators and others who seek to grow students’ interest in STEM are celebrating National STEM Day, which takes place annually on Nov. 8. Recently, the faculty, students, staff and community partners who collaborate on UK’s STEM Experiences Camps reflected on the impact of making positive STEM experiences accessible to youth.
Austin Stone, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine in the College of Medicine, was recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine for a two-year study on posttraumatic osteoarthritis in knees and therapies for prevention.
Michael Samaan, Ph.D., leads groundbreaking research on hip osteoarthritis treatment with the National Institute of Aging and the Osteoarthritis Alliance of Kentucky.
(Top, left to right) Adebola Adegboyega, Jean Fry, Joseph Benitez. (Bottom, left to right) Michael Samaan, Lauren Whitehurst, Cetewayo Rashid.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 19, 2021) A new program aimed at ensuring diversity and inclusion in research by promoting faculty success began this month with the first cohort of junior faculty from six University of Kentucky colleges.
The Research Scholars Program (RSP) was created by the Office of the Vice President for Research, with support from the Office for Faculty Advancement, Center for Health Equity Transformation, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, and the colleges of Nursing, Public Health, Health Sciences, Medicine, Education, and Arts and Sciences.