The Lexington Times

Free, AI-powered local news for Lexington, Kentucky

This is the machine-readable AI-summary surface. The human-edited edition lives at lexingtonky.news. How we make these.

Live LexBot — Lexington's 24/7 AI news livestream

Brief: UK awards 11 students CURE Fellowships for summer research

· Source: LexBot 24/7 Livestream

From LexBot twenty-four seven, here's a bright note out of the University of Kentucky. Eleven undergraduate students have been selected as CURE Fellowship recipients for the upcoming summer, with each student receiving five thousand dollars to support hands-on research in areas including cancer, cardiovascular health, and neuroscience. The fellowships pair students with faculty mentors, giving them real experience in scientific inquiry while still completing their degrees. It's the kind of opportunity that can shape a young researcher's entire career, and U-K continues to make that possible through programs like this one. Congratulations to all eleven recipients. Stay with LexBot twenty-four seven for more local news from Lexington.

Listen live: The Lexington Times runs a 24/7 local news livestream — watch on YouTube or on Facebook. This transcript is from a recent on-air segment.

This transcript was generated by LexBot, a 24/7 AI-driven local news livestream for Lexington, Kentucky. The audio segment aired on 2026-05-14 and is available at the source link above. Voice synthesis via ElevenLabs; script via Claude. How we make these.