The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the University of Kentucky a prestigious center grant to share its expertise and lead national efforts to build diverse academic research environments. This will be accomplished by the oversight of the new Support of Research Excellence (SuRE) R16 grant program designed to foster research capacity building at colleges and universities that serve underrepresented students. Dr. Greg talks with program co-director Brett Spear.
With Kentucky drug deaths topping 2,200 in 2021, are par of University of Kentucky researchers are creating a surveillance system using artificial intelligence to alert prevention and response personnel that conditions for a surge in overdoses are occurring.
The Kentucky General Assembly reconvenes Wednesday for the last two days of this year’s session, with some closely-watched bills still to consider and a chance to override more than a dozen vetoes of Republican-backed legislation by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.