HEAL Update: Study Making Impact in WAVE 1 Communities
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 20, 2022) — More than two years into the University of Kentucky’s $87 million HEALing Communities Study (HCS) to address the opioid epidemic in Kentucky, it is possible to see the life-changing impacts it has already made in the eight counties of the study’s first wave.
Two A&S Undergraduates Selected for UK’s Beckman Scholars SUCCESS Program
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 19, 2022) — Two undergraduates have been selected as the first recipients of the University of Kentucky’s new Beckman Scholars Program, Scholars United by Chemistry: Cultivating Excellence through Science Stewardship (SUCCESS).
UK Sophomore Isha Chauhan Named Goldwater Scholar
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 11, 2022) — The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that UK sophomore Isha Chauhan, from LaGrange, Kentucky, has been awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
UK Celebrates 2022 Weatherford Award Winners
By Kate Maddox
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 6, 2022) — The University of Kentucky is celebrating two book winners of the Weatherford Awards, which were announced at the 45th annual Appalachian Studies Association conference March 17-20 at West Virginia University.
UK Psychologist Discusses How to Adapt, Overcome in Times of Uncertainty
By LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 6, 2022) — The ongoing crisis in Ukraine. The persistent problem of inflation. The efforts to continue reducing the spread of COVID-19.
Healing, Housing and Heritage in the Hollers
The AppalachiaCorps provides students with interests and roots in Eastern Kentucky opportunities to learn and serve the region
By Richard LeComte
Summer fun in Appalachia: hiking, climbing, camping, swimming—and holding somebody’s removed femur in a hospital.
