Five of the university's undergraduate students pursued research in their fields of study this summer with funding from the National Science Foundation-Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.
Courtney McKelphin and Ben Childress share their stories of why they got involved in research and what they gained from the experience.
Rachel Armstrong, an undergrad at Cornell, studied in Ai-Ling Lin's lab at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.
Amanda Hayek works in Esther Dupont-Versteegden’s lab studying the mechanical effects of massage on muscle.
Taylor Robinson, a freshman studying chemical engineering, is doing research on muscle stem cells.
Stephen Parsons combines computer science, St. Chad Gospels, physics, Spanish, math and international studies.
See undergraduate research on acoustics and fluid dynamics with T.J. Flynn in Mechanical Engineering.
4,000 undergraduate researchers came to UK for the largest-ever National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
Chelsea Oswald, UK's 2013 SEC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, is researching running injuries.
A tiny satellite, dubbed KySat-2, built by UK and Morehead State students, is orbiting 300 miles above Earth.
