4.         UK Research Now Featured on the ResearchChannel
UK research is now reaching more than 22 million U.S. households on the ResearchChannel, a nonprofit media and technology organization that connects UK investigators with a global audience through cable TV and satellite distribution, and live Web streaming at www.researchchannel.org. Several scientists in UK's Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments have been featured recently, including Ruigang Yang, Computer Science, and Samson Cheung, Electrical and Computer Engineering. The College of Medicine Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by UK's new Center for Clinical and Translational Science, will be featured in coming months.
5.         Kentucky Kernel Wins College Journalism's Tulitzer Prize'
The Kentucky Kernel, UK's independent daily student newspaper, won the Pacemaker, often called the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism. The Kernel was the only college newspaper in Kentucky to win the prize. The Kernel's winning issues included stories about a UK medical student traveling to Africa to fight the spread of AIDS, a former UK professor suffering from Pick's disease, a student group that traveled to the Gulf Coast to help Hurricane Katrina victims repair their homes, and a special section commemorating the four seniors on the men's basketball team. In addition, the UK yearbook was a finalist for the Pacemaker for the first time.
6.         NIH Designates UK Hospital as Hub for Neurological Emergencies Treatment
UK has been selected by the National Institutes of Health as one of 11 academic medical centers designated as Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials' Network Clinical Hub Sites, thanks to the efforts of the departments of Emergency Medicine, Neurology, and Neurosurgery. The program sets up academic medical centers as "hubs" with affiliated community hospitals as "spokes" that conduct trials focused on improving treatment for neurologic emergencies. UK's spokes include St. Claire Medical Center, Highlands Regional Medical Center, Ephram McDowell Medical Center, Rockcastle Hospital, Kentucky River Medical Center, and Hazard Appalachian Regional Hospital. UK was selected from 30 applications to be awarded funding for this five-year program.
7.         College of Nursing Expands Enrollment to Address Coming Nurse Shortage
To help alleviate an increasingly growing nursing shortage in Kentucky and across the nation, the UK College of Nursing will double admissions into its traditional four-year program beginning in fall 2007. The college currently admits 80 Bachelor of Science in Nursing students per academic year 40 for the fall semester and 40 for the spring. Next year, 160 students will enter the program. UK officials say the caliber of the nursing students will remain high. For each of the past three admission cycles at least 120 qualified applicants were turned away. The college will add eight full-time faculty over the next three years and a number of part-time clinical instructors in order to retain quality instruction for its undergraduates. The supply of nurses in the state is expected to fall short of demand beginning in 2012, and by 2020 Kentucky alone will need an