Biology Seminar - How RNA Viruses Escape the Wrath of the Cellular RNA Decay Machinery
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THM 116
A&S Students Part of College Mentors for Kids Program
By Gail Hairston
Their eyes fill with commitment, their smiles reflect their joy, and Madeline Conrad and Mason Johnson nearly bounce off their chairs with excitement when they talk about the College Mentors for Kids after-school program.
Conrad and Johnson are the University of Kentucky seniors.
They say the third- through fifth-grade children at two Fayette County schools mentored by UK student volunteers “are launched into orbit” when they talk about their visits to the university campus.
UK to Host STEM Conference for Middle School Girls on April 29th
A team from the University of Kentucky has received a grant from Kentucky NSF EPSCoR (National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) for Education and Outreach Activities to fund a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) conference for middle school girls at UK this spring.
UK Undergraduates Awarded at Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting
By Amanda Fuller
The Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) held its 2016 Annual Meeting Nov. 4‐5, at the University of Louisville. More than 700 scientists and students attended the meeting, and hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students from Kentucky and regional colleges and universities participated in the research competitions.
Winners of the student competitions from the University of Kentucky included:
EcoLunch: "The perks of being an east african paleolimnologist."
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305 TH Morgan
Doctoral Defense Seminar: “Sleep Alternations in Mouse Genetic Models of Human Disease”
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511 Nursing Bldg.
Panel Discussion on "Frontiers in Genetics and Genomics"
This panel discussion (10/19/2016) engaged the general public in current topics of genetics and genomics, such as assembling genomes, gene editing and gene drives, gene therapy in medicine, GMOs, bioethics, and “big unanswered questions”. The panel was made up of a diverse group of faculty at the University of Kentucky:
Moderator: Brian Rymond, PhD, Linda and Jack Gill Professor of Biology, Department of Biology
Panel Members:
BioBonanza 2016
DATE: 10/01/2016 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
LOCATION: Academic Science Building - Rose St
BioBonanza was a one-day open house festival celebrating biological research at the University of Kentucky.