Nicholas Heebner, associate professor in the UK College of Health Sciences and director of UK’s Sports Medicine Research Institute, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
Tie “Thomas” Luo, has received the Best Paper Award at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2025 Workshop on Pattern Mining and Machine Learning for Bioinformatics for his work titled “Unlocking Neural Transparency: Jacobian Maps for Explainable AI in Alzheimer’s Detection.”
Zach Agioutantis, Ph.D., the Mining Engineering Foundation Professor and chair of the Department of Mining Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
Matthew Kim, a three-time nominee for UK’s Excellent Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, is one of this year’s distinguished Great Teacher Award recipients.
Neal Hutchens, professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation in the University of Kentucky College of Education, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
Daniel Vivian, associate professor in the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Kentucky College of Design, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
Three UK graduates have received awards from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which expands perspectives through academic and professional advancement and cross-cultural dialogue.
UK was awarded a four-year, $913,685 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish the Research Evaluation and Analytics Capacity Hub (REACH).
