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LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 10, 2021) — The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that 10 students and recent graduates have been selected to receive government-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. In addition, a UK doctoral student and four alumni received honorable mention recognition from the NSF.  As part of the five-year fellowship, NSF Fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost o...

Can a state attorney general stand alone? That is the question posed by an upcoming Supreme Court case concerning Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's effort to intervene to ...

SHARE LOUISVILLE, Ky. — While Kentucky and the rest of the world focuses on COVID-19, something else has been lurking in the shadows and gaining strength — the opioid epidemic. A large cross-sectional study published in JAMA Psychiatry found that emergency department visit rates for opioid use were up 28.8% year over year. Dr. Chris Stewart from the University of Louisville School of Medicine said that the opioid crisis didn’t disappear when the COVID-19 pandemic started, but rather ti...

By TOM LATEK Kentucky Today Jan 21, 2021 Jan 21, 2021 FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – While Kentucky saw a big jump in both new cases and deaths due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, the state’s positivity rate continued to drop. There were 3,433 new cases reported to state pubic health officials on Wednesday, up from the 2,250 on Tuesday, and raising to 334,321 the number of positive cases in Kentucky, since the first one on March 6. Seven counties reported over 100 new cases: Jefferson 43...

Kentucky in ‘The Eye of the COVID Hurricane’ as Cases Drop