Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering

Conference attendees visit a table at the 2025 Patent Palooza!

UK innovators honored at Patent Palooza! 2025

Oct 10, 2025, 7:26 AM

At Patent Palooza! 2025, UK Innovate celebrated a historic number of patents issued, licenses executed, and inventions disclosed during the fiscal year.

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NSF CAREER Award fuels UK researcher’s breakthroughs in robotics

Oct 6, 2025, 7:58 AM

The U.S. NSF will support Biyun Xie, Ph.D., with $602,698 over five years for her research in human-robot shared control for robotic telemanipulation.

Research Advancing Kentucky: Balk’s work to develop new materials

Sep 25, 2025, 6:00 AM

John Balk explores how the structure of materials affects their strength, toughness and performance, especially for demanding uses such as next-generation energy systems and sensors.

Undergraduate research focus of alumni panel

Sep 22, 2025, 6:42 AM

The Office of Undergraduate Research will host the 2025 Research Alumni Career Panel on Sept. 23, in the Healthy Kentucky Research Building

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Research Advancing Kentucky: Andrews’ effort to protect communities

Sep 18, 2025, 6:01 AM

Sponsored by the U.S. NSG, DOD and DOE, Rodney Andrews leads experts in advanced materials, defense technologies and energy infrastructure

Research Advancing Kentucky: Groppo’s focus on critical material recovery

Sep 11, 2025, 6:32 AM

Funding from the U.S. NSF, DOD and DOE has allowed Jack Groppo to find new methods to recover critical materials from electronic and coal waste and build up the supply chain for tomorrow’s electronics

Isabel Escobar examining a sample in a lab

Research Advancing Kentucky: Escobar’s membrane work offers solutions

Sep 11, 2025, 6:31 AM

With significant support from the U.S. NSF and DOE, Professor Isabel Escobar’s research focuses on modifying membranes at the nanoscale.

NSF CAREER award enables light-powered computing research

Sep 4, 2025, 7:35 AM

Ishan Thakkar recently received the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his work in developing electro-photonic circuits.

15 students selected for undergraduate research ambassador program

Sep 4, 2025, 7:29 AM

The UK Office of Undergraduate Research has selected 15 outstanding undergraduates for the 2025-26 Research Ambassador program.

CISE Distinguished Lecture: On Perseverance: Virtually Unwrapping the Herculaneum Scrolls

Sep 11, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Dr. Brent Seales, PhD will tell the story of virtual unwrapping, conceived during the rise of digital libraries and large-scale computing, and now realized on some of the most difficult and iconic material in the world - the Herculaneum Scrolls - as a result of the recent phenomena of big data and machine learning. Virtual unwrapping is a non-invasive restoration pathway for damaged written material, allowing texts to be read from objects that are too damaged even to be opened.

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