Editing Owensboro, Kentucky (section)

==Education==
The [[Owensboro Public Schools]], [[Daviess County Public Schools]], and the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Owensboro|Diocese of Owensboro]]'s Catholic School System oversee K-12 education in and around Owensboro.

Owensboro is home to two private, four-year colleges, [[Brescia University]] (Catholic) and [[Kentucky Wesleyan College]], and one public [[Community colleges in the United States|community college]], [[Owensboro Community and Technical College]]. A campus of [[Daymar College]] is also located in Owensboro, and [[Western Kentucky University]] has a [http://www.wku.edu/owensboro/ regional campus] there.

In 2006, plans were announced for a research center operated by the [[University of Louisville]] to be located at the Mitchell Memorial Cancer Center, a part of the Owensboro Medical Health System, to study how to make the first ever [[Human papillomavirus|human papilloma virus]] [[vaccine]], called [[Gardasil]], from tobacco plants. U of L researcher Dr Albert Bennet Jenson and Dr Shin-je Ghim discovered the [[vaccine]] in 2006. If successful, the [[vaccine]] would be made in Owensboro.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060531/NEWS01/605310428|title=Two at UofL help invent vaccine – Courier Journal}}</ref>

Owensboro has a lending library, the Daviess County Public Library.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx | title=Kentucky Public Library Directory | publisher=Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives | access-date=June 5, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111202017/https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx | archive-date=January 11, 2019 }}</ref>