In her award-winning paper, “Studying Sexualities in Girls’ Social Worlds: Ethical and Effective Methodologies for Research with Preadolescent Girls,” McGladrey recommends strategies for eliciting meaningful information about how preadolescent girls interpret sexualized media content.
UK has received a $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to better understand and minimize negative health and environmental impacts from hazardous waste sites.
On March 27, the University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science will host the 4th Annual Appalachian Translational Research Network Summit.
Shoulder to Shoulder Global is a UK-based organization that strives to improve the health and well-being of impoverished communities.
An intervention created by a group of University of Kentucky faculty has proven successful in encouraging young women in an area of eastern Kentucky to complete the series of HPV vaccines to guard against cervical cancer. In 2012, cervical cancer affected approximately 12,000 women in the United States and was responsible for another 4,200 deaths.
For ten years, Shoulder to Shoulder Global has been serving impoverished communities in and near Santo Domingo, Ecuador. In 2002, Shoulder to Shoulder Global went on its first trip to help people in need of medical care. Groups of students, healthcare professionals, faculty and volunteers have been visiting multiple times a year ever since. Though the group’s goal is to provide healthcare, any interested student or community member can participate.
Shoulder to Shoulder Global's May 2012 brigade to Ecuador allowed students, faculty and staff from the UK College of Health Sciences, UK College of Arts and Sciences, Transylvania University as well as members of the community to attend to 704 patients at the Centro Médico and partnering communities.
I’d like to point your attention to the newest installment of the Dean’s Channel where I spoke with statistics professors Arne Bathke and Arny Stromberg. In 2011, UK opened its first Applied Statistics Lab (ASL), with the help of the Office of the Vice President for Research, several UK college deans, and infrastructure grants such as the university's recent Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), UK statisticians in the College of Arts & Sciences' Department of Statistics, and the College of Public Health's Department of Biostatistics.
The main objectives of this venture are to provide improved statistical services to groups preparing grant proposals, direct faculty involvement from the Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics for study design and data analysis throughout UK, foster collaborative research between scholars who develop quantitative methodology and those who use such methodology in their work, and to become a resource which may be referenced in institutional support for larger grants, in addition to direct statistical support typically included in such grants.
With the help of the Office of the Vice President for Research, several UK college deans and infrastructure grants such as the university's recent Clinical and Translational Science Award, UK statisticians in the departments of Statistics and Biostatistics opened UK's first Applied Statistics Lab, which they hope will be the new face of statistical analysis on campus.
Mohammed Saeed, a Fulbright Scholar in UK's Department of Statistics pursuing a master's in public health in UK's College of Public Health will give an insider's perspective on the past, present and future of Iraq at UK next week.
