Office of the Vice President for Research

Vice President for Research

James W. Tracy, jtracy@email.uky.edu
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Associate Vice Presidents for Research

Craig R. Rush (part-time), crush2@uky.edu
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Jack Supplee, supplee@email.uky.edu

Debbie Davis, ddavis@email.uky.edu

Research Support Units

Administration and Fiscal Affairs, Jack Supplee
Federal Relations, Bill Schweri
Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA), Debbie Davis
Office of Research Integrity (ORI), Ada Sue Selwitz
Proposal Development Office (PDO), Margot McCullers
Research Communications, Alicia Gregory
Research Information Services, Greg Franseth

Centers & Institutes

The following research centers and institutes are under the organizational structure of the vice president for research. They are non-degree granting and multidisciplinary in scope.

• Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER)
• Center for Computational Sciences
• Center for Research on Violence Against Women
• Center for Structural Biology
• Center of Membrane Sciences
• Human Development Institute (HDI)
• Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS)
• Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute (KWRRI)
• The Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability & the Environment (ISE)

 

Service Core Facilities

The office of the vice president for research oversees the following shared-use facilities.

• Clinical Research Development and Operations Center (CRDOC)
• Division of Laboratory Animal Resources (DLAR)
• Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Core Facility
• Imaging Facility
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center (MRISC)
• Mass Spectrometry Facility
• Microarray Core Facility
• Proteomics Core Facility
• Rodent Behavior Core (RBC)
• Survey Research Center
• Transgenic Mouse Facility