Department News

New Provisional Faculty Senate Executive Committee

Dr. Kelly Pennell, Director of UKSRC, and Dr. Hollie Swanson, Professor in College of Medicine and Faculty Trustee, chosen to serve on Provisional Faculty Senate Executive Committee. Read press release from the Office of the Provost.

UK’s Swanson to serve on NIEHS review committee, contribute to US biomedical research

A University of Kentucky researcher will be serving as a member of the National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Review Committee. The committee is responsible for the scientific review of multiple grant mechanisms at the NIEHS.

UKSRC trainees named poster award-winners at the 2024 Wyatt Symposium

The 2024 John P. Wyatt, M.D., Environment and Health Symposium was held Thursday, April 4 on the University of Kentucky campus at the J. David Rosenberg College of Law Grand Courtroom. The Wyatt symposium honors the legacy of Dr. John P. Wyatt and his pioneering environmental clinical research on air pollution and lung pathology. Multiple universities and agencies from across the state gathered to present research and practice focused on the environment and its impact on health in Kentucky.

CEECHE 2024: Seeking Solutions for Environmental Exposures and Disease Risks

The University of Kentucky Superfund Research Center (UKSRC), in collaboration with the Department of Civil Engineering and the University of Aristotle in Thessaloniki, Greece, and sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), are the proud organizers of the 2024 Central and Eastern European Conference on Health and the Environment (CEECHE) to be held July 15-19, 2024 at the University of Aristotle in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Mayor proclaims April as John P. Wyatt, M.D., Environment and Health Awareness Month

The 2024 John P. Wyatt, M.D., Environment and Health Symposium was held Thursday, April 4 on the University of Kentucky campus at the J. David Rosenberg College of Law Grand Courtroom. The Wyatt symposium honors the legacy of Dr. John P. Wyatt and his pioneering environmental clinical research on air pollution and lung pathology.

First-generation grad student Jerika Durham has found her stride

Story courtesy of UK College of Medicine  Jerika Durham is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of toxicology and cancer biology. Durham, who grew up in eastern Kentucky, is not only the first person in her family to pursue such a degree, but the first to attend college at all. 

Improved Machine Learning Technique to Reveal How Metabolites Are Created

Hunter Moseley, professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry and Superfund Research Program (SRP) researcher, shares with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences how the University of Kentucky SRP is using machine learning techniques to help interpret how chemicals are processed, or metabolized, in the body. Read full coverage here: https://tools.niehs.nih.gov/srp/news/view.cfm?newsitem_ID=3230

Hollie Swanson interviewed by WKYT

Hollie Swanson, UK Superfund Research Center Project 2 Co-Leader and professor of pharmacology and nutritional sciences/molecular and biomedical pharmacology, was interviewed by WKYT regarding how rapid temperature changes can affect the home and human health. 

UK Colleges and Appalachian communities partner to reduce exposure to chemicals in drinking water

Cleanup of East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment site could take years to complete

Public attention is drifting from the aftermath of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last month, but the cleanup of the toxic chemicals that spilled and burned is ongoing — and likely won’t stop for quite some time. “I estimate the timeline to be years” for remediation of the area, said Kelly Pennell, a professor of civil engineering and director of the University of Kentucky’s Superfund Research Center.