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Sponsored in collaboration between the Office of the Vice President for Research and UK colleges, IRC seeks to increase interdisciplinary scientific engagement and leverage UK’s breadth of expertise to tackle important problems in the Commonwealth.
Allison Gibson, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the College of Social Work and an affiliate faculty member at the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. Her work focuses on helping people affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias — both the diagnosed individual and their caregivers — through supportive programming.
University of Kentucky researchers are leading a study to find out why people in the Appalachian region of Kentucky are some of the nation's most sleep deprived. Their findings will help inform interventions to reduce sleep disparities among rural Kentuckians.
UNITE community panelists: (Top, left to right) Olga McKissic, Shameka Parrish-Wright, Donovan Taylor; (Bottom, left to right) Rosa Martin, Stephen Overstreet, Tiffany Clark. LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 23, 2021) — University of Kentucky administrators, faculty, staff and students engaged with a diverse panel of Kentucky community leaders to identify research priorities to address racial equity across the Commonwealth. On April 15, a virtual event was hosted by UNited In True racial Equity (UNITE) — UK’s newest research priority area (RPA), which aims to support research focused on racial dis...
UK's Alaine E. Reschke-Hernández talks about her research exploring the impact of music on Alzheimer's patients. LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 26, 2021) — Newly published research has found familiar music can elicit an extended emotional response in patients with Alzheimer’s-type dementia. The findings from this potential new approach were featured in issue three of volume 78 of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Building on the belief that music has emotional and behavioral benefits, researchers under the leadership of University of Kentucky School of Music’s Alaine E. Reschke-Hernández,...