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Simone Silvestri Wins NSF CAREER Award

The award is given in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

UK Researchers Seek to Develop Antiviral Membrane Mask

“We have the capability to create a membrane that would not only effectively filter out the novel coronavirus like the N95 mask does, but deactivate the virus completely, this innovation would further slow and even prevent the virus from spreading."

UK Faculty Receive Prestigious National Research Honors

Four distinguished faculty from UK were recently named Fellows of prestigious national research organizations.

UK Invites Community to Celebrate Engineers Day This Saturday

From building bridges and discovering medication to writing the software that powers our cell phones — Engineers Day, or E-Day, is a celebration of everything UK Engineering has to offer.

Suzanne Smith Elected AIAA Fellow

Suzanne Smith has been elected to the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Only 29 of the 33,000 AIAA members from across the U.S. and around the world were selected.

Could Drones Save Cows? Why UK Research Team Thinks So

With the help of a $900,000 USDA grant, UK researchers are working on noninvasive health monitoring for herds using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Opportunity to Join Research Team Transforms UK Students’ Careers

When students come to the UK, they discover many opportunities that ignite their passion. For Kyra Seevers, Kristina Gessel and Stephen Parsons, that opportunity was undergraduate research.

How UK Engineering is Using Hemp to Repair Deteriorating Kentucky Bridges

Bridges are a crucial component of Kentucky's infrastructure — providing access between regions and cities and linking workers to jobs. But as traffic continues to increase, bridges across the state are aging at an accelerated pace.

UK's Brent Seales Using Light Brighter Than the Sun to Read Herculaneum Scrolls

The UK Digital Restoration Initiative in the College of Engineering has been working to perfect a technique to non-invasively recover the 2,000-year-old fragile papyri.

UK Receives Grant to Help in the Development of Kentucky’s Research Computing CI

The project will create a new Kentucky Research Computing team (KyRC), led by Brian Nichols, James Griffioen and Doyle Friskney.