2010 Appalachia in the Bluegrass

The John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, a collaborative research and performance Center of the UK College of Fine Arts, School of Music, and University Libraries, is delighted to host an annual series of concerts “Appalachia in the Bluegrass” that explores old time and bluegrass music of the Appalachian region. Full schedule... 

Appalachian Research @ UK>> University of Kentucky researchers from over 40 departments in virtually every disipline are dedicating time to studying Appalachia.

Engaging College Students >> The Appalachian IDEAS Network is an initiative designed to equip Appalachian students with knowledge, skills and resources to develop entrepreneurial ventures...

About The Center >> The Appalachian Center serves the region from where many of its students, alumni, staff and faculty are native, by utilizing the resources of UK.

Appalachian Center News

Fickey Winner of Women in Geographic Education Award

Amanda Fickey knows the value of a role model. Fickey, a strategic planning committee member for the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center and a steering committee member for the UK Appalachian Research Community, also realizes that the relationship goes both ways. Networking with younger students is just as valuable for those within higher academic circles.

Fighting for a Voice

Tiplut Nongbri will be presenting a talk on matriliny, gender and the state in the Hill Society of North-East India. She will show a short video on the struggle of the women's movement in Meghalaya against the state's undemocratic practices and denial of rights to women to participate in policy formulation. 

Appalachian Research Around Campus: Just Added

Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening for Patients with Multiple Morbidities

Appalachian and rural underserved residents, in general, experience higher rates of multiple morbidities (MM) with fewer resources to prevent and manage disease.

Some researchers have speculated that the welldocumented cancer health disparities affecting Appalachians may be attributable to multiple morbidity management demands which may deprioritize essential and efficacious cancer screenings.

Faith Moves Mountains: A CBPR Appalachian Wellness & Cancer Prevention Program

Appalachian communities are disproportionately affected by many of the leading risk factors associated with cancer incidence and mortality, factors amenable to primary and secondary prevention.

ARRA: An Intergenerational CBPR Intervention to Reduce Appalachian Health Disparities

This supplementary proposal seeks to assess and likely improve the measurement of physical activity (PA), a key primary outcome of the parent grant, within our community-based sample of rural residents. Currently, the protocol for our energy balance intervention uses self-report for PA assessment. Although self-reported PA is an easily obtained method that is culturally acceptable, existing literature demonstrates that there are limitations in the accuracy of such reports.

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