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Agriculture Extension Specialist Senior
Phone Number
859-492-3007
Email Address
kgoodman@uky.edu
Office
139 Moloney Building
Professional Profile
Dr. Ashurst is a Senior Extension Specialist for Family and Consumer Sciences Extension. She serves as PI for a variety of grants focusing on outreach and support to military families and Co-PI for Kentucky's Children, Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR) joint grant with Kentucky State University focusing on life skills for underserved and unstably housed youth. Kerri also serves as a Federal Coach for the CYFAR Professional Deveopment and Technical Assistance Center.
Dr. Ashurst's focus is building state-wide capacity for reaching underserved or at-risk children, youth, families, and communities. Kerri's primary areas of interest include families who are coping with major crises such as illness or death of a family member; positive youth and young adult development and positive mental health; couple communication and relationship building; military families and reconnection after deployment; and stress management. Dr. Ashurst has worked with the FCS Extension unit at UK now for over 25 years.
Scholars@UK
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Ashurst, K. (PI), Atkinson, T. (CoI) & Schrader, K. (CoI)
Purdue University
3/1/25 → 8/31/25
Project: Research project
Ashurst, K. (PI) & Atkinson, T. (CoI)
Pennsylvania State University
9/1/22 → 8/31/25
Ashurst, K. (PI), Atkinson, T. (CoI) & Jones, K. (CoI)
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
9/1/24 → 8/31/25
3/1/24 → 7/31/24
Ashurst, K. (PI) & Weisenhorn, D. (CoI)
3/1/23 → 7/31/23
Ashurst, K. (PI)
1/1/19 → 3/31/23
3/1/17 → 8/31/17
6/1/16 → 8/31/17
Kansas State University
3/1/15 → 7/31/15
3/1/22 → 7/31/22
Ashurst, K. (PI) & Stephenson, L. (Former PI)
University of Nebraska
5/1/11 → 6/30/14
Ashurst, K. (PI) & Stephenson, L. (CoI)
3/1/11 → 2/29/12
2/1/11 → 8/31/11
4/1/10 → 9/30/10
2/1/09 → 9/30/09
10/1/08 → 8/31/11
1/1/19 → 1/1/19
Jones, K. (PI), Ashurst, K. (CoI) & Kurzynske, J. (CoI)
8/1/13 → 7/31/18
8/15/14 → 8/14/19
3/1/18 → 8/31/18
Education
Associated Departments
Family and Consumer Sciences