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Applications for UK Sustainability Challenge Grant Program now being accepted

The Sustainability Challenge Grant Program is designed to engage transdisciplinary teams from the university community to foster scholarly, creative and research projects that promote sustainability.

UK researcher receives NSF CAREER award to create safe, smart target drone capturing

Xu Jin has received the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award for his research on creating innovative methods to make drones safer and smarter.

Departments of MAE and ECE make history with 5 capsules' successful return from space

UK is the only university that has had a successful hypersonic reentry, a testament to the leading role the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering plays in in hypersonic research and space exploration.

The 2024-25 Outstanding Teaching Awards: Anastasia Hauser

Anastasia Hauser, a lecturer in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been honored as one of UK's 2024 Great Teacher Award recipients.

UK’s Tong, Yang and Yi winners in NIH TARGETED Challenge

UK research team “ARENEX” focuses on the potential of CRISPR-based gene editing technology and won the Phase 1 competition of the NIH Targeted Genome Editor Delivery Challenge.

IRC program awards nearly $600,000 in pilot grants to support campus research

UK’s Igniting Research Collaborations (IRC) program has awarded nearly $600,000 in pilot grants to support cross-college interdisciplinary research.

Guoqiang Yu: 2024-25 University Research Professor Q&A

Guoqiang Yu, a professor in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

International postdoc continues research into space exploration at UK

As a Ph.D. student and now as a postdoctoral scholar, Raghava Davuluri conducts research that is crucial to the present and future of space exploration.

KY-INBRE Essential Bioinformatics Workshop

Applications for the 2024 UK/UofL/KY-INBRE NGS Essential Bioinformatics Workshop are open    

UK celebrates opening of engineering lab designed to advance US manufacturing

On May 29, the Pigman College of Engineering held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Next Generation Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory (NextGen AMRL), the newest addition to the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing.