By Jenny Wells-Hosley and Lindsey Piercy
University of Kentucky alumnus and successful Kentucky businessman Bruce Lunsford has pledged $1 million to establish the W. Bruce Lunsford Scholars Program in Citizenship and Public Service at UK. The program will support dynamic learning opportunities for students that emphasize citizenship, democracy, public service and government affairs.
By Lindsey Piercy
For more than a decade, Rachel Farr has studied various aspects of family life. More specifically, she's zeroed in on a highly debated topic — adoption among same-sex couples.
From the Association for Women in Mathematics.
By Jenny Wells
The University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College presented two new college awards — the Diachun Scholar Award and the Evans Scholar Award — to two graduating seniors at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year.
By Alyssa Perez
Recent University of Kentucky graduate Christian Soares has been awarded a fellowship worth $8,500 by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi — the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Soares is one of 58 recipients nationwide to receive a Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship.
By Beth Goins
STEM – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics – is not silent. It certainly isn’t still or stoic.
By Lindsey Piercy
Life is a balancing act, and no one understands that more than Eric Rannenberg. As a man with many titles — devoted husband, dedicated father and former Marine turned working professional — time is a valuable resource.
"Time management is critical," he said.
At just 18 years old, the Bowling Green, Kentucky, native hit the ground running. He signed on the dotted line and, with great pride, enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve after completing high school.
Abstract: Dinoflagellates are an important group of eukaryotic microorganisms found in freshwater and marine environments. Certain dinoflagellates produce potent toxins that are the causative agents of diarrheic, amnesic, paralytic, and neurotoxic shellfish poisonings, and are responsible for the formation of harmful algal blooms (red tides). Still other dinoflagellates are capable of both photosynthesis and bioluminescence, processes that are regulated by a cellular circadian rhythm (biological clock) and give rise to bioluminescent bays and the ‘phosphorescence’ of the sea. The key, light-forming enzyme of dinoflagellate bioluminescence, dinoflagellate luciferase (LCF), contains three homologous catalytic domains within a single polypeptide and is tightly regulated by pH. The production of blue-green light by LCF is coupled to the oxidation of an open-chain tetrapyrrolic substrate, dinoflagellate luciferin (LH2), which is a catabolite of the photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll. Current progress in our understanding of LH2 biosynthesis and the chemiluminescent and pH-dependent activation mechanisms of LCF will be presented.
Research: https://www.auburn.edu/cosam/faculty/chemistry/mansoorabadi/index.htm
