Expanding Your Horizons Introduces Middle School Girls to STEM
Middle school students are awed when they get the chance to turn a banana into a percussion instrument at the 2017 Expanding Your Horizons STEM workshop for girls.
PhD Defense: "Using genomics to understand population demographics in the context of amphibian conservation"
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116 TH Morgan Bldg
#IAmAWomanInSTEM Awards 11 Students for Promoting STEM Education, Careers to Women
By Jenny Wells
The University of Kentucky’s #IAmAWomanInSTEM project has awarded scholarships to 11 UK students for project proposals that promote STEM education and careers for women.
UK Team Receives NIH Award to Explore How Macrophage Phenotypes Influence Tissue Regeneration
By Jenny Wells
Tissue regeneration is complex and involves the dynamic interaction of many cellular and physiological processes. Understanding how these processes interact to regulate regeneration requires working across disciplines. In support of an interdisciplinary approach, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded researchers at the University of Kentucky a five-year, $1.65 million grant from its National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) to study how inflammatory cells can regulate tissue regeneration in mammals.
UK Researchers Identify Macrophages as Key Factor for Regeneration in Mammals
By Jenny Wells
Macrophages from an African spiny mouse promote tissue regeneration.
PhD Defense Seminar: “Sexual Dimorphism in the Moss Bryum Argenteum and its Implications for Sex Ratio Bias”
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Kuehne Conference Room
Graduating Student's Research Leaves Mark on Campus Kitchen of UK
By Katie Pratt
In her research, Townsend compared container, vertical and hydroponic gardens to assess their ability to grow several different types of lettuces. Photo by Katie Pratt, Agricultural Communications.
UK Nietzel Visiting Distinguished Professor Seminar: "The Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds - A DNA Perspective"
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121 Jacobs Science Building
Civic Life Panel Series Continues: Science Speaks
By Gail Hairston
The last event of the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences’ Civil Life Panel Series’ spring season is slated noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, with two follow-up panel discussions later the same day. The topic is “Science Speaks.”