The University of Kentucky and its innovative breakthroughs will be coming to school districts across the Commonwealth. UK has committed $1.5 million over the next three years to launch the Kentucky P20 Innovation Lab: A Partnership for Next Generation Learning, housed in the
UK College of Education.
In a global economy fueled by ever-evolving technology, the partnership aims to spark powerful broad-based transformation of public education and address the heightened need to prepare Kentucky students to thrive in higher education and the workforce.
The College of Education is partnering with Kentucky schools, businesses, community leaders, higher education, industry, and government to transform classrooms to engage learners at an early age and create a pipeline of students well-prepared to go to college and obtain careers matching their skills and interests.
This P20 initiative is a sterling example of our Top 20 commitment. This project will allow us to deliver the breakthroughs we develop on our campus to schools and communities across the state, improving educational outcomes and lives in every Kentucky community.
I applaud College of Education Dean Mary John O’Hair for her leadership in this effort and her commitment to positively impacting Kentucky schools.
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On Monday afternoon, the University dedicated its new Biological Pharmaceutical Complex, a $134 million marvel that should bring pride to Kentuckians from Appalachia to the Pennyrile. At 286,000-square-feet, the facility is the largest academic building in Kentucky and among the largest in the nation.
Home to the nation's 5th-ranked College of Pharmacy, this facility will help provide our students with a leading-edge education that can be felt in communities across the Commonwealth. The College, which currently educates students from 90 of 120 Kentucky counties, attracts the very best and brightest students from Kentucky and beyond. In fact, Kentucky pharmacy students have had the highest composite first-time pass rate on the national pharmacy licensing exam since 2002.
It also will help our world-renowned faculty enhance their ability to conduct groundbreaking research, as it contains the type of innovative labs that will foster collaboration and interaction. Such research collaboration is important, as the College of Pharmacy is home to some of UK’s most prolific researchers and most entrepreneurial members of our campus community.
I certainly want to thank everyone involved in helping us make this day possible - from our elected officials in Frankfort and our donors who provided us with financial support to the members of our campus community who helped design and plan this building.
This building is a true Kentucky gem. Along with the new UK Chandler Hospital that is currently under construction, these facilities will form the cornerstones for UK's Medical Campus of the Future. They will help us reach out and do what a Top 20 research university must do: Provide Kentuckians with leading-edge health care, research, and innovation right here in Kentucky.
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ESPN GameDay tickets are available starting Monday, January 25 at 10 a.m., as UK tries to become the first school to fill their arena for the hit television show. ESPN’s Saturday morning show is returning to Lexington this year and will be held at Rupp Arena from 11 a.m. until noon Saturday, Feb. 13 – the day of the UK-University of Tennessee men’s basketball game, which begins at 9 p.m. that evening.
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I’ll be there. Will you?
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I can’t say enough positive things about how this University community has stepped forward to help the people affected by last week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti.
Coach John Calipari and the men’s basketball team raised over $1 million on Sunday with their “Hoops for Haiti” telethon. This amazing event was pulled off in less than 48 hours. And I must thank everyone involved in making it a success – from our coaching staff and our players to our media partner at WKYT to our friends at the American Red Cross and, of course, to all the members of the Wildcat Family from across the nation and the world who stepped forward to support the effort.
Student leaders at UK are continuing fundraising efforts today (Tuesday, January 19) and tomorrow (Wednesday, January 20). Student Government and the Center for Community Outreach will be collecting cash donation, in conjunction with the American Red Cross, at the following campus locations: Student Center Bridge Hall, the Kentucky Clinic Starbucks, outside the Mining and Minerals Building, and outside the Classroom Building/Patterson Office Tower Plaza.
Thanks, again, to everyone involved in helping us to reach out and support our friends in Haiti.
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UK's Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) has been awarded $11.8 million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to expand laboratory facilities and intensify its groundbreaking energy research efforts. This grant is being matched with $3 million from the Commonwealth of Kentucky and $1 million from UK to complete the $15.8 million project.
The grant provides funding to significantly expand the center's research capabilities with a new 36,000-square-foot building dedicated to research in biomass and biofuels, advanced distributed power generation and storage, and technologies for electric vehicles. The facility will be constructed at the Spindletop Energy Research Campus and will be adjacent to the UK Center for Applied Energy Research and the Kentucky-Argonne National Battery Manufacturing Research and Development Center. In December, the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority also awarded another $3.5 million in funding for equipment purchases for the battery R&D center.
The new facility will include labs for process development, prototype manufacturing and testing to support applied research on batteries, capacitors, solar energy materials, and biofuels. A portion of the new facility will be equipped specifically for capacitor and battery manufacturing research. The Kentucky Biofuels Laboratory, an analytical laboratory managed as an open access user facility, will also be located within the new expansion. The project is expected to be completed by fall 2011.
NIST, a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, has a mission to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
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