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Guoqiang Yu Awarded Two NIH Grants Totaling Nearly $4.7 Million

Guoqiang Yu has been awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health that total nearly $4.7 million. Yu researches near-infrared diffuse optical spectroscopy/tomography through his Biomedical Optics Lab.

UK Gets NSF Funding to Develop Face Mask that Can Deactivate COVID-19

For the RAPID project, the team will create a membrane mask and other flat sheet materials with a more porous and spongy structure that will include charged domain and enzymes, which would capture and effectively deactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

UK, Lexmark Form Technology Partnership

UK's Office of Technology Commercialization announces its first-ever license agreement with Lexmark International Inc. involving a project led by Joshua Werner exploring the recovery and recycling of precious metals. 

Art Meets Science in UK 3D Designs of PPE

"The country is running out of personal protection equipment, which is important to prevent not just my friends from getting sick, but my wife, too. She works as a physician," Winkler said. "We must protect those who are risking their lives to protect others from this disease."

Simone Silvestri Wins NSF CAREER Award

The award is given in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

UK Researchers Seek to Develop Antiviral Membrane Mask

“We have the capability to create a membrane that would not only effectively filter out the novel coronavirus like the N95 mask does, but deactivate the virus completely, this innovation would further slow and even prevent the virus from spreading."

UK Faculty Receive Prestigious National Research Honors

Four distinguished faculty from UK were recently named Fellows of prestigious national research organizations.

UK Invites Community to Celebrate Engineers Day This Saturday

From building bridges and discovering medication to writing the software that powers our cell phones — Engineers Day, or E-Day, is a celebration of everything UK Engineering has to offer.

Suzanne Smith Elected AIAA Fellow

Suzanne Smith has been elected to the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Only 29 of the 33,000 AIAA members from across the U.S. and around the world were selected.

Could Drones Save Cows? Why UK Research Team Thinks So

With the help of a $900,000 USDA grant, UK researchers are working on noninvasive health monitoring for herds using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).