The Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has secured a $910,000 grant from the USDA to develop and refine drone technology in cattle management.
Scott Berry, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, is the principal investigator of the nearly $18 million award.
The Sustainability Challenge Grant Program is designed to engage transdisciplinary teams from the university community to foster scholarly, creative and research projects that promote sustainability.
Xu Jin has received the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award for his research on creating innovative methods to make drones safer and smarter.
UK is the only university that has had a successful hypersonic reentry, a testament to the leading role the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering plays in in hypersonic research and space exploration.
Anastasia Hauser, a lecturer in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been honored as one of UK's 2024 Great Teacher Award recipients.
UK research team “ARENEX” focuses on the potential of CRISPR-based gene editing technology and won the Phase 1 competition of the NIH Targeted Genome Editor Delivery Challenge.