Two Alumni Honored at College of Health Sciences Hall of Fame & Young Alumni Award Celebration
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
As Dean Scott Lephart said Thursday night, there must be something in the water in...
Feb 25, 2022
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
We are so proud to share the news that Ke’La Porter, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS, who serves as the student member of the DEI Committee, has been selected as the graduate student recipient of the...
Feb 15, 2022
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 9, 2022) — A social entrepreneur and author whose goal is a world where no child is an orphan. And a PhD researcher who focuses on muscle health and physical...
Feb 9, 2022
A festive time was had by all this weekend in San Antonio, Texas, where the American Physical Therapy Association's Combined Sections Meeting gathered to congregate and celebrate.
But it was even more special this year. ...
Feb 7, 2022
Charlotte A. Peterson, PhD, recently accepted the invitation from the Secretary of Health & Human Services to serve as a member of the National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) for a period of three years.
The NACA meets three...
Jan 21, 2022
A paper recently published in the journal Function reporting novel findings of experiments performed by post-docs in the College of Health Sciences, Center for Muscle Biology, entitled “Nucleus Type-Specific DNA Methylomics Reveals...
Jan 18, 2022
By Ryan Clark and Ellee Sidebottom
CHS Contributors
When Jacob Jelmini came to Kentucky, he knew three things about the state: horses, basketball and bourbon. He’d soon find out a lot more.
In 2017, Jelmini — an athletic...
Jan 13, 2022
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 5, 2022) — Researchers at the University of Kentucky are working on three National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, totaling over $8 million, to better understand one of the most common sports injuries among athletes —...
Jan 5, 2022
By Ellee Sidebottom
CHS Contributor
Kirby P. Mayer, DPT, PhD, is an assistant professor in the College of Health Sciences and was awarded a Promotion of Doctoral Studies II Scholarship by the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research...
Nov 19, 2021
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
Two in the College of Health Sciences family have been selected to participate in a Launch Blue cohort to market a realistic artificial skin model to use in enhancing procedural skills...
Sep 17, 2021