The Center for Clinical and Translational Science is achieving its commitment to community-engaged research through a community mini-grant program for health outreach programs in Appalachia.
David Westneat, professor of biology, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how personality and environment affect the parenting behavior of birds.
All over Kentucky, fossilized brachiopods are common. Rebecca Freeman, a lecturer in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, studies brachiopods and how they interacted with their prehistoric environments according to the fossil record. When I interviewed her about a recent line of research that identified a previously unknown species of brachiopod, I also got a ghost story from Lexington, Kentucky.
Undergraduates have the opportunity to submit abstracts of their research to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research through December 6th.
