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2 Outstanding Undergraduates Selected for UK’s Beckman Scholars SUCCESS Program

Elaf Ghoneim, a neuroscience major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Lewis Honors College, and Parker Sornberger, a mathematics and chemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences — will each begin their independent, laboratory research this summer.

Female Patent Holders Spotlight Commercialization at UK

UK women are leaders in commercialization and patents. Three of them share their perspective, as UK’s top female patent holders, as part of UK Research’s “Women Making History” series.

Novel Funding Model Provides CAER Researchers Support to Produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Researchers at the Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) recently received funding from OUR&D seeking to supplement current research on sustainable aviation fuel.

UK’s Anthony, Risko Receive NSF Special Creativity Award

UK’s John Anthony, Ph.D., and Chad Risko, Ph.D., have received a Special Creativity Award by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program.

Unique Public-Private Research Consortium Established CAER as CO2 Capture Pioneers

Researchers have led changes in global industrial processes and scientific breakthroughs that are changing Kentucky’s and the world’s economy.

Registration Now Open for UK’s Food, Energy and Water Symposium Featuring AppHarvest CEO

University of Kentucky’s Food, Energy & Water Symposium will take place on Dec. 9. The event will take place from 9 am to 4 pm at the Jacobs Science Building.

Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Virtual Museum Now Available

The museum focuses on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant and was developed in collaboration with the Center for Applied Energy Research’s Kentucky Research Consortium for Energy and Environment.

CAER Director Chairs National Report on Coal-Derived Products

Center for Applied Energy Research Director Rodney Andrews is chair of a new report by the National Coal Council, highlighting advanced markets for coal-derived products.

CAER Project Seeks to Capture Carbon Directly From the Atmosphere

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.

LG&E and KU, UK CAER Collaborate to Create Net-Negative CO2 Emissions

The Center for Applied Energy Research has launched an innovative partnership to study capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at natural gas combined cycle power plants.