A UK assistant professor received a $1.17 million, two-year research grant from federal stimulus money to better understand why a particular opioid drug is abused less than others of the same type. William Stoops, an assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral Science and the UK Center for Drug and Alcohol Research, will focus his [...]
Maybe it was part of an Opinions page experiment — could we really get students interested enough, or mad enough to write in or make comments on our Web site? Or maybe it was because I wanted to try something new. Either way, a pro/con column was born at the beginning of this semester — [...]
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His feet hurt. He sits down on the curb and wiggles his fingers under the laces to loosen their grip. He pulls off the shoe and rubs his feet with his weathered hands. His back hurts. He kneads his knuckles into the base of his spine and then into his right shoulder. His head hurts. [...]
Continue reading …Forty-nine days after his heart transplant on March 7, Murphey Coy walked with his parents, his heart surgeon and more than 100 friends and supporters in the Central Kentucky Heart Walk. More than 2,500 people participated in the walk on Saturday at Commonwealth Stadium. The event was sponsored by the American Heart Association and UK [...]
Continue reading …The improper use of more than $20,000 in the College of Pharmacy’s continuing education department did not come from tuition money or state appropriated funds, a UK spokesman said Wednesday. The continuing education department — from which four employees were fired for the undocumented funds — is self-supported by symposium and course fees, said UK [...]
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Murphey Coy was warm. He folded his fingers into loose fists, feeling their heat. His hands and feet had been cold for more than two years, but when he woke up from his heart transplant surgery on March 7, he was finally warm. “I was so excited,†Coy said. “I had forgotten what it felt [...]
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This is a series of pro/con columns that will appear on the Kernel opinions page every other Thursday. We want to know your stance. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com. RELATED STORY: ‘Sore loser syndrome’ too prevalent in today’s politics There’s this funny little thing called democracy that allows citizens to elect their leaders by voting for the candidates [...]
Continue reading …This is a series of pro/con columns that will appear on the Kernel opinions page every other Thursday. We want to know your stance. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com. RELATED STORY: Twitter allows 140-character look into the lives of celebrities It only takes 140 characters to squash the importance of a news story. As someone who writes a [...]
Continue reading …This is a series of pro/con columns that will appear on the Kernel opinions page every other Thursday. We want to know your stance. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com. Column by Blair Thomas The art of the Spring Break hookup — whether it be a slobbery make out session in the middle of a crowd of strangers, or [...]
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WASHINGTON — Their signs read “clean coal is a dirty lie,†their chants asked for green jobs and, as more than 5,000 demonstrators marched in the snow through Washington, D.C., to surround the Capitol Power Plant, they demanded quick action against climate change. The Capitol Climate Action civil disobedience joined with the annual youth Power [...]
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