January 9, 2025 - UK President Eli Capilouto

Behind the Blue

LEXINGTON, Ky. (January 9, 2025) – As the new year begins, the University of Kentucky is welcoming back students for the spring 2025 semester—a time to reflect on the strides made in the past year and to look forward to the opportunities ahead.

On this episode of Behind the Blue, UK President Eli Capilouto reflects on 2024, highlighting the achievements of a campus community deeply committed to care—care for students, for discovery, and for the Commonwealth. “The most important question we should ask ourselves every day,” he notes, “is, did we care? And then, how we care. That makes me most proud of our faculty, because resoundingly, you can say they care. They care about our students—not just their educational experience,” but also how they’re prepared to serve the future.

President Capilouto also discusses the Board of Trustees’ directive for UK to strengthen partnerships across Kentucky to advance health and prosperity. With a mission to make the state “healthier, wealthier, and wiser,” the university is tackling challenges like cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease through groundbreaking research while preparing students and communities for opportunities in energy, advanced manufacturing, and the arts.

From its growing network of partnerships with hospitals and clinics across the state to a campus transformed by $6.5 billion in investments, UK continues to pull the levers of change, fulfilling its land-grant mission to serve and uplift the people of Kentucky.

Behind the Blue is available via a variety of podcast providers, including iTunes and Spotify. Become a subscriber to receive new episodes of “Behind the Blue” each week. UK’s latest medical breakthroughs, research, artists and writers will be featured, along with the most important news impacting the university.

Behind the Blue is a joint production of the University of Kentucky and UK HealthCare. Transcripts for this or other episodes of Behind the Blue can be downloaded from the show’s blog page.

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