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College of Medicine Hits Top 20 for ‘Social Mission’
The UK College of Medicine ranks 14m in the nation based upon its "social missions score.”
This is what a land-grant university should do for its state, and the College of Medicine is doing
it extraordinarily well.
Rural Physician Leadership Program Students Head to Morehead Kentucky This Fall
The ribbon cutting for a new building called the Center for Health, Education, and Research at
Morehead, Kentucky was held in August. The Rural Physician Leadership Program is very
unique to the Commonwealth. UK selects 10 students from eastem Kentucky to occupy 10 of
the 113 positions in the medical school class. The students will do their first two years on UK
campus, and their last two years at St. Claire Regional Medical Center working with Morehead
State University. Hopefully, the students will remain in the rural areas to become physicians.
Within the next year or two, UK plans to be doing the same thing with Murray State University
in the westem part of the state.
UK Still Ranks First in Creating Start-up Companies
UK ranks first among benchmarks in creating start-up companies per $10 million of research
expenditures with universities that have started companies. The ranking is based on every $10
million of research expenditures. UK was 13th in start-up companies among all public
universities and 17m among its benchmarks in royalties received, and that number will go up as
these companies go on line. President Todd thanked Vice President Leonard Heller and his staff
for getting that done.
ASTeCC Incubator Company 3H receives $2.7 million from Department of Energy
3H Company, which is one of UK’s incubator companies, received $2.7 million to look at carbon
sequestration. The company will move to lab space at Coldstream Research Campus soon. This
is a company that recently relocated to Lexington from Hampton, Virginia because ofthe match
program the state of Kentucky has put together for the small business innovation research grants.
Kentucky is the only state that actually matches those up to $1 million. President Todd
mentioned another company that came to Kentucky from Philadelphia and said it is a real
promising thing, especially since it is in the energy area for carbon sequestration which is
important to the state.
UK Alumnus Brings 90 New Software Jobs to Lexington
Software engineering company Galmont Consulting will open a testing center in Lexington and
create 90 full-time engineering jobs and partnership opportunities with UK. UK alumnus Jeri
Smith started the company, which is moving to Lexington, and they are cooperating with UK’s
Department of Computer Science and the College of Engineering.
UK has 684 freshmen in engineering this year. Three years ago there were approximately 488
freshmen. The average ACT for this entering freshmen class of engineering students is 28.5. It
is a strong group, and that is just totally opposite of what is going on at a national level right now
with engineering enrollment. Everyone can be very proud of this increase.