Eight student teams from across the Commonwealth gathered on May 2 for the annual GEN-EV electric car race, hosted by the UK Center for Applied Energy Research.
Twelve students will enter the two-year Gaines Fellowship program designed to enrich undergraduate education through interdisciplinary coursework, independent research and community engagement.
UK researchers — along with collaborators from across the USA — gathered at Buckhorn School in Perry County last month to work with high school students on a water-testing device developed at UK.
The Chellgren Endowed Professorship gave Robin Cooper the runway to transform his classroom and lab into a powerful space where undergraduates could test ideas, take intellectual risks and share their discoveries.
Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez focuses on turning unwanted cheap or waste oils from algae, plants or used cooking grease into less-polluting fuels that can directly replace gasoline, diesel or jet fuel.
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.
