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UK researcher using AI to unravel proteins, advance medical research

Qing Shao has been awarded more than $1.3 million from the U.S. National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine to develop large protein language models for biomedical applications.

UK engineers help NASA improve heat shields for 1st crewed Moon mission in 50 years

UK researchers are at the forefront of advancing space travel safety and reliability by improving heat shields for NASA’s Artemis program.

Call for submissions: 2024 Oswald Research and Creativity Competition

The competition promotes undergraduate research across all disciplines and highlights the diverse creativity and scholarship of UK undergraduates.

Beyond the breakthrough: How Brent Seales is pushing the boundaries of discovery through new heritage science lab

Brent Seales discusses his groundbreaking work in reading ancient, carbonized Herculaneum scrolls and the future of EduceLab, a first-of-its-kind heritage science lab in Kentucky.

UK senior and Astronaut Scholar revels in ‘most impactful award’ he’s ever received

Asa O’Neal, a UK senior mechanical engineering and physics major, was named to the 2024 Astronaut Scholars class by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.

8 faculty and 8 graduate students named Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Scholars

In its inaugural year, the Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Endowment has made $160,000 in funds available for distribution, with a priority on research support.

Harik and Peiris receive new grant from Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

The three-year $315,000 grant will support research on seismically deficient bridges on and over the interstates and parkways in Western Kentucky.

UK to host 1st Bioelectronics and Nanomedicine Research Center Symposium

The UK BNRC will host its first symposium later this month, promoting biotechnology and bioelectronics innovation at UK.

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.

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