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The Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) received $1.3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory for development of new carbon capturing technology.

A five-year project improving cost-effective wetland treatment systems for rural communities and low-income areas is the subject of a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award for Tiffany Messer, Ph.D.

Beverly May, Dr.P.H., won this year’s UK-CARES award for her contributions to health care as a family nurse practitioner in Appalachian Kentucky.

The CAER project seeks to solve both of those issues through the development of new high-strength, high-bond cements and concretes that are simple to deploy and use. These products will require little or no surface preparation and eliminate the heavy precast reinforcement-laden structural elements that bog down repair and construction projects.

Crocker, Buland and representatives from the Kentucky Division of Forestry and the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves toured the Tom Dorman State Nature Preserve in Garrard and Jessamine counties, where there is potential for lingering ash.

"Lake Tanganyika’s fish are a critically important resource for impoverished people from four nations (Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Zambia) and resilience to environmental change in that region is quite low,” McGlue said.

Mark Crocker and CAER research scientist Yaying Ji have developed and patented a novel technology that addresses the problem of removing nitrogen oxides (NOx) from exhaust gas when a vehicle is first started and the gas is still cold.

The NIEHS has awarded the UK-SRC a five-year, $8.7 million grant to conduct research aimed at better understanding and minimizing the negative health and environmental impacts of chlorinated organic compounds found at Superfund sites.

Join nearly 1,000 researchers, clinicians, students and community members for this free, day-long event exploring the relationship between the environment, our health and how we live.

A new statewide consortium, headquartered at UK, will pursue climate research, teaching and outreach.