As part of Telehealth Awareness Week, let’s meet CSD grad student Natalie Stigers

By Abigail Condit
CHS Contributor

Over the last year, the healthcare industry has changed dramatically. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of modernizing patient care strategies, as many patients are...

Sep 22, 2021

Collett, Powdrill selected for Launch Blue cohort

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

DPT Ready to "Run for Your Life 5K"

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director 

After a year of running virtually, Doctor of Physical Therapy students are ready to do the real thing again — outside.

Saturday at Coldstream Park, students will participate in...

Sep 8, 2021

Esther Dupont and Charlotte Peterson

‘Truly Remarkable’: Center for Muscle Biology Lives Up to Challenge During COVID-19

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 31, 2021) — One of the main sources of physical power in the body derives from muscle. Research studies in skeletal muscle show the influences of aging, chronic diseases, and physical activity on overall function and health...

Aug 31, 2021

CHS Professors still hope to make Black Bag ceremony ‘something special’

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

These students are nothing bundt the best.

At least, that’s what the bundt cakes, which can be found in their sacks of goodies, tell the 52 Physician Assistant Studies students who...

Aug 30, 2021

Class PT President Ready to Graduate, Take Talents Back Home

by Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

Rachel Fields says she believes in divine intervention.

How else then, can she explain how, as a basketball player in her junior season of high school, she tore her ACL — but it led...

Aug 27, 2021

CHS Welcomes Students to College

by Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

Out of all the speeches the new students heard during their last week before classes, maybe it was Alumni Relations Director Caroline Arthur’s message that brought out the most feelings....

Aug 20, 2021

‘Where I Wanted to Be’

Tyler Pape, PA-C, has overcome a lot to get to his PA Celebration

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

Growing up, Tyler Pape, PA-C, was the kind of kid who had a plan for everything.

“I was super-determined,” he said...

Aug 19, 2021

When Kayla Met Norbert, part 2

By Kayla Bell
CHS Contributor

EDITOR’S NOTE: Kayla Bell graduated in 2021 with a degree in Human Health Sciences. Originally from southern Illinois, she was learning to adjust to the rhythms of UK’s campus when she heard about...

Aug 12, 2021

New UK Study Featured in New York Times Offers Insight on How Resistance Training Burns Fat

By Elizabeth Chapin

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 9, 2021) — Findings from a new University of Kentucky College of Medicine and College of Health Sciences study add to growing evidence that resistance exercise has...

Aug 9, 2021

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