News Archive: Community & Leadership Development
UK home to new national center studying economic impacts of rural health care
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Carol Lea Spence
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he newly formed Center for Economic Analysis for Rural Health has found a home in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
CEDIK part of UK's new Economic Development Collaborative
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Jenny Wells-Hosley
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The new UK Economic Development Collaborative provides a strategy for how UK will address economic development in the areas of talent, innovation, place and partnership.
UK, KSU partner to help Kentucky’s at-risk youth
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Katie Pratt
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This program is building upon successful programs led by both land-grant universities.
UK working to lower obesity rates in Kentucky county
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Katie Pratt
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The project is part of a five year, $2.5 million grant UK Family and Consumer Sciences Extension received from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
Grant will help UK extension expand opioid prevention and recovery efforts
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Katie Pratt
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The grant will allow the Cooperative Extension Service to expand its opioid prevention and recovery educational efforts in south central and Western Kentucky.
UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment opens 2020 freshmen scholarship application
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Seth Riker
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Scholarship applications are due by Dec. 1.
UK student takes home ‘first-place overall’ in 2019 World Dairy Expo Intercollegiate Dairy Judging Contest
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Aimee Nielson
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UK student Madison Dyment also placed first in oral reasons and two breed categories.
Davis named research leader to explore health’s effect on community development
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Carol Lea Spence
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has named Alison Davis, director of the University of Kentucky’s Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky, a fellow of the 2019 Cohort of Interdisciplinary Research Leaders, a three-year leadership program.
Plasencia part of UK team selected by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to address children's health challenges in Casey County
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Jenny Wells-Hosley
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UK Landscape Architecture, CEDIK receive National Endowment for the Arts grant
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UK Landscape Architecture, CEDIK receive National Endowment for the Arts grant for a project that is designed to enhance the Cooperative Extension Service's capacity to support community investments in the arts and culture..