Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering

Multi-Million Dollar Multidisciplinary Grant Supports Advancement of Epilepsy Research

Oct 27, 2020, 8:45 AM

A $2.9 million grant from the NIH is supporting a multidisciplinary team of UK researchers in continuing their work to find therapeutic strategies to resolve neurovascular inflammation and repair blood-brain barrier dysfunction in epilepsy.

UK Researchers Study COVID-19 and Decision-Making for Reopening Schools

Oct 26, 2020, 8:41 AM

Kelly G. Pennell, Gill Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and director of the UK Superfund Research Center (UK-SRC), has co-authored an article detailing lessons learned about stakeholder engagement and risk communication relevant for COVID-19 and school reopening.

UK Senior Skyler Hornback Named Astronaut Scholar

Oct 7, 2020, 8:28 AM

Since arriving at UK, Hornback has participated in UK Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering’s research on “smart” polymeric sorbents for PFAS removal from contaminated water systems under the leadership of J. Zach Hilt, Gill Eminent Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Reading the Unreadable: Seales and Team Reveal Dead Sea Scroll Text

Jul 23, 2020, 8:30 AM

Brent Seales, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at UK, is considered the foremost expert in the digital restoration of damaged and unreadable manuscripts. To this day, his quest to uncover the wisdom of the ancients is ever evolving.

Nikiforos Stamatiadis Awarded Greek Diaspora Fellowship

Jul 7, 2020, 8:27 AM

The Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program is a scholar exchange program for Greek universities to host Greek scholars from the diaspora in the areas of collaborative research, curriculum co-development and/or graduate/undergraduate student mentoring and teaching.

UK, SCC Team Up to Confront COVID-19 With Antiviral Membrane, 3D-printed Face Masks

Jun 9, 2020, 8:16 AM

“The virus is about 120 nanometers in size — in the world of membranes, that's large. Even more so, it's not going to come as a virus by itself, flying in the air. It's going to come in the saliva, so it's going to be a much larger particle. A large particle is just not going through (this filter).”

Guoqiang Yu Awarded Two NIH Grants Totaling Nearly $4.7 Million

May 28, 2020, 8:37 AM

Guoqiang Yu has been awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health that total nearly $4.7 million. Yu researches near-infrared diffuse optical spectroscopy/tomography through his Biomedical Optics Lab.

UK Gets NSF Funding to Develop Face Mask that Can Deactivate COVID-19

May 14, 2020, 8:37 AM

For the RAPID project, the team will create a membrane mask and other flat sheet materials with a more porous and spongy structure that will include charged domain and enzymes, which would capture and effectively deactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

UK, Lexmark Form Technology Partnership

Apr 23, 2020, 8:39 AM

UK's Office of Technology Commercialization announces its first-ever license agreement with Lexmark International Inc. involving a project led by Joshua Werner exploring the recovery and recycling of precious metals.

Art Meets Science in UK 3D Designs of PPE

Apr 14, 2020, 4:36 PM

"The country is running out of personal protection equipment, which is important to prevent not just my friends from getting sick, but my wife, too. She works as a physician," Winkler said. "We must protect those who are risking their lives to protect others from this disease."

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