Alumni News

CHS Celebrates Faculty, Staff Awards

 

Dean Scott Lephart, PhD, always says that other than Commencement, the Faculty and Staff Awards are his favorite day of the year. 

Thursday, May 9, those in the College of Health and Sciences were able to celebrate again, and several faculty and staff were honored with awards. 

May 10, 2024

Irving Chosen for Claire Blue Health LLC’s Board of Governors

By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director

Congratulations go out to Shelley Irving, MSPAS, PA-C, an Assistant Professor and Site Director of the Morehead Campus for the UK Department of Physician Assistant Studies, who has agreed to serve on the Board of Governors of Claire Blue Health LLC.

May 8, 2024

Clancy named new Clinical Leadership and Management Program Director

By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director Dr. Karen Clancy, PhD, MBA, BHS, has been named the College of Health Sciences’ new Clinical Leadership and Management Program Director, after UK’s Board of Trustees met and approved the appointment last month.

May 7, 2024

PHOTO GALLERY: CHS Graduation Day Filled with Joy, Tears

By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director

There were a range of emotions when students in the College of Health Sciences graduated Friday morning.

Joy. Pride. Relief. And even a bit of sadness.

May 3, 2024

'Everything I wanted to do' — Athletic Training Students to Celebrate Graduation

By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director

As a young soccer player growing up in Tokyo, Kenta Mizumoto had several injuries — and he was inspired by the athletic trainers who helped nurse him back to health.

He decided he wanted to be an athletic trainer, too. After going to college in Japan, he learned that one of his professors had studied at UK, so Mizumoto started to research the program at Kentucky. Ultimately, he decided it was a good fit.

May 2, 2024

Promise Fulfilled: HHS Senior Excited for Graduation, and for CHS Education to Continue

5 questions to the soon-to-be-graduate, Promise Kayembe …

By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director

For Promise Kayembe, life truly has been a long series of trips.

April 30, 2024

GATEWAY MAGAZINE: How I Became a Medical Laboratory Scientist

There are three reasons to read this story: 1. It's Medical Laboratory Professionals Week. 2. It appears in the latest issue of Gateway Magazine. 3. It's awesome. Read on. 

Celebrating Medical Laboratory Professionals Week

By Bianna MusicClinical Lab Services Coordinator, Center of Excellence in Rural Health

April 22, 2024

2024 Sullivan Award winners lead with compassion, service to others

By Hilary Brown, Hayden Gooding, and Lindsey PiercyUK Now

Two University of Kentucky students and one local citizen have received UK’s highest honor for humanitarian efforts — the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.

April 19, 2024

CHS Associate Prof Appointed to State Board of Physical Therapy

By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director

Gov. Andy Beshear has appointed Ramona Carper, PT, DPT, as a member of the State Board of Physical Therapy for a term expiring Feb. 18, 2028.

Carper, a physical therapist and associate professor/associate program director in the Department of Physical Therapy in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Kentucky, replaces Peggy Block, whose term expired.

April 5, 2024

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