Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering

Biomedical Engineering Seminar

Sep 17, 2025, 3:00 – 4:15 PM

Dr. Arjun Yodh from the University of Pennsylvania will give a seminar titled “Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Body Using Diffusing Light.” This will be a great opportunity for those interested in this field to learn from him and engage in discussions about his work.

Alexandra Paterson looking at a laboratory machine

UK’s Paterson earns 2 prestigious national awards for research, innovation

Aug 15, 2025, 7:27 AM

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.

UK’s Alexandre Martin wins NASA medal for advancing space technology

Aug 8, 2025, 11:36 AM

Alexandre Martin has been awarded the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal — one of the highest honors given to individuals outside the agency.

Amanda Beall collecting water samples in a stream.

One University of Kentucky student’s search for contaminants in Appalachian streams

Aug 6, 2025, 10:18 AM

How a student shifted her perspective on engineering and opened the door to a future in environmental research.

UK’s Brent Seales, global team secures Europe’s top research grant to digitally decode Herculaneum scrolls

Jul 28, 2025, 10:27 AM

Brent Seales has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant as part of an international team seeking to unlock the secrets of the Herculaneum scrolls.

UK engineering researcher leads NSF‑funded initiative to model heart fibrosis with machine learning

Jul 22, 2025, 7:27 AM

Researchers at UK are teaming up with researchers at Michigan State University to develop cutting-edge simulations of heart disease progression.

UK greenhouse study offers hope for protecting, cleansing waterways

Jul 16, 2025, 7:03 AM

A study by researchers at UK’s Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment shows that small-scale wetlands can help clean up a mix of farm runoff, personal care products and other harmful chemicals.

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UK biomedical engineering researchers are editor’s pick

Jul 11, 2025, 12:56 PM

A team of researchers from UK’s Pigman College of Engineering was selected as an editor’s pick for the July issue of Biomedical Optics Express.

Luo wins Best Paper Award for research on Explainable AI in Alzheimer's disease

Jul 9, 2025, 5:29 AM

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: 2025-26 University Research Professor Q&A

Jul 3, 2025, 7:27 AM

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.

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