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This year’s MLK Holiday Celebration will be Jan. 15, 2024 beginning with the annual Freedom March at 1 p.m. and concluding with the powerful commemorative program held at the Central Bank Center at 2 p.m. The march begins and ends at the Central Bank Center in downtown Lexington. WUKY's Alan Lytle gets a preview from long-time co-chair Chester Grundy.

A University of Kentucky researcher participated in a livestreamed big reveal concerning what once was thought of as an impossible task. Brent Seales, a computer science professor at UK, talked about the AI technology he and his students developed over two decades that was used to digitally unwrap and read words from the 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls. They were burned and carbonized by the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE and were deemed “unreadable.” Alan Lytle reports.

UK HealthCare and Fayette County Public Schools are working on a career path project for high school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The partnership – part of a nationwide initiative, dubbed project SEARCH, just launched in August. On Tuesday the stakeholders held a press conference to explain how the program works and who it’s meant to benefit. Alan Lytle has details.

The University of Kentucky’s James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits officially opened its doors Monday, elevating the institute’s impact on research, workforce development, education and outreach.

Continuing a “legacy like no other,” late University of Kentucky alum and former trustee Carol Martin “Bill” Gatton bestowed a transformational gift of $100 million to the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment through The Bill Gatton Foundation.

A plan to begin design work for a new patient care tower at the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital was endorsed Thursday by the UK Board of Trustees Health Care Committee.

Kentuckians are mourning the loss of one of the country's preeminent oral historians — former Dean of University of Kentucky Libraries, Terry Birdwhistell.

See the latest winter weather announcement from the University of Kentucky.

Individuals recovering from substance abuse and seeking housing have a new resource to turn to. Josh James has details.

The University of Kentucky will begin offering the bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccines by appointment only at the Blue Box Theater beginning today for all faculty, staff and students. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the newly authorized bivalent booster targets new variants of the virus, offering more protection heading into the fall and winter seasons.