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UK’s Honaker wins SEC Faculty Achievement Award

Rick Honaker has been named winner of the 2025 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Faculty Achievement Award for the University of Kentucky.

2025 Kentucky Innovator Challenge to focus on health care, engineering, agriculture

UK Innovate is set to host the third annual Kentucky Innovator Challenge (KIC). 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 15 in Ballrooms 212 A&B in the Gatton Student Center.

UK researcher enhances police de-escalation training with immersive AI, VR simulations

Stephen Ware has been working to enhance officer training through the use of artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

DOE funds UK research on critical materials for commercial fusion energy

UK has been selected to lead a project with $2.3 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop next-generation materials critical to commercializing fusion power.

UK researchers develop greener, more sustainable ways to recover metals from electronic waste

As e-waste piles up globally, researchers at UK are spearheading innovative methods to recover valuable metals from discarded devices and industrial waste.

13 UK undergraduates to present at Posters-at-the-Capitol

The 23rd annual Posters-at-the-Capitol event will feature research topics including community health, agricultural sustainability, renewable energy and public health and safety.

Engineering tomorrow: Morris’ path in STEM, passion for mentoring the next generation

Ashley Morris, a principal research engineer at the UK Center for Applied Energy Research and part of the Carbon Materials Research Group, is among a new generation of women engineers who are paving the way for women in science.

UK researcher using AI to unravel proteins, advance medical research

Qing Shao has been awarded more than $1.3 million from the U.S. National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine to develop large protein language models for biomedical applications.

UK engineers help NASA improve heat shields for 1st crewed Moon mission in 50 years

UK researchers are at the forefront of advancing space travel safety and reliability by improving heat shields for NASA’s Artemis program.

10 students selected as 5-Minute Fast Track Research Competition finalists

Undergraduate finalists will present their research in five minutes in front of a panel of judges and a live audience using only a single static slide.