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UK researchers developing neighborhood-level weather technology

Nov 21, 2025, 7:23 AM

Researchers from UK's Karen and Stanley Pigman College of Engineering were awarded $2 million from the NSF to develop a cutting-edge weather forecasting system with the NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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Kentucky dream takes flight: UK joins NASA on Arctic space mission

Nov 13, 2025, 8:13 AM

A team of students and faculty from UK's Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering will make history in Norway, launching a UK-developed payload as part of NASA’s GHOST spaceflight mission.

‘I am a UK Innovator’: College of Arts and Sciences’ John Anthony

Nov 6, 2025, 7:28 AM

In this Q&A, John Anthony describes his work developing new molecules for semiconductor applications and how this research helps train the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists. His award-winning contributions have positioned him among UK’s most highly cited researchers.

2025 ‘Great Teacher’ Isabel Escobar helps students see the big picture

Nov 5, 2025, 7:51 AM

Isabel Escobar, the Paul W. Chellgren Endowed Chair and professor of chemical and materials engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, is one of this year’s distinguished Great Teacher Award recipients.

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UK team selected for national research advocacy program

Oct 17, 2025, 7:25 AM

A UK team has been selected for the 2025-26 Scholars Transforming Through Research Program of the Council on Undergraduate Research. The five-month program culminates in a two-day event in Washington, D.C.

Biyun Xie in a robotics lab with researchers

NSF CAREER Award fuels UK researcher’s breakthroughs in robotics

Oct 6, 2025, 7:58 AM

The U.S. NSF will support Biyun Xie, Ph.D., with $602,698 over five years for her research in human-robot shared control for robotic telemanipulation.

2024 Oswald Research and Creativity Competition winners

Call for submissions: 2025 Oswald Research and Creativity Competition

Sep 26, 2025, 7:38 AM

The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research is now accepting submissions for the 61st annual Oswald Research and Creativity Competition.

NSF CAREER award enables light-powered computing research

Sep 4, 2025, 7:35 AM

Ishan Thakkar recently received the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his work in developing electro-photonic circuits.

Josephine Traver standing in front of her research poster

UK student helping build a better base for 3D-printed foods

Aug 29, 2025, 7:31 AM

Josephine Traver spent her summer turning powders and nonanimal gums into something that behaves like Jell-O — and prints like it too — as a stand-in for animal gelatin in 3D food printers.

Alexandra Paterson looking at a laboratory machine

UK’s Paterson earns 2 prestigious national awards for research, innovation

Aug 15, 2025, 7:27 AM

Alexandra Paterson has earned two prestigious national awards for early-career faculty: the U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award.

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