‘UK at the Half’: Connecting the arts and health
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 25, 2025) — The University of Kentucky’s Dmitry Strakovsky is fostering collaborations between creative disciplines and health care professionals through an innovative initiative.
Creative Link for Advancing Digital Health (Creative Link) brings together multidisciplinary teams to take on big challenges in STEM + H Education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Health Sciences) and supports commercialization efforts aimed at making real differences in healthcare in Kentucky and across the country.
Discover more about Creative Link by listening to this edition of “UK at the Half,” which aired Feb. 15, during the Wildcats’ game against the University of Texas. Strakovsky, an associate professor in the School of Art and Visual Studies in UK’s College of Fine Arts, leads the Creative Link initiative which is funded by the Office of Vice President for Research Emerging Themes for Research Program.
Read more about Strakovsky’s work and watch a video by the UK Research Communications team here.
“UK at the Half” airs during halftime of each UK football and basketball game broadcast on radio and is hosted by UK Public Relations and Strategic Communications and Marketing and Brand Strategy. To hear the “UK at the Half” interview, click on the play button above.
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