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Departments of MAE and ECE make history with 5 capsules' successful return from space

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.

The 2024-25 Outstanding Teaching Awards: Anastasia Hauser

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’s Tong, Yang and Yi winners in NIH TARGETED Challenge

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.

IRC program awards nearly $600,000 in pilot grants to support campus research

UK’s Igniting Research Collaborations (IRC) program has awarded nearly $600,000 in pilot grants to support cross-college interdisciplinary research.

Guoqiang Yu: 2024-25 University Research Professor Q&A

Guoqiang Yu, a professor in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

International postdoc continues research into space exploration at UK

As a Ph.D. student and now as a postdoctoral scholar, Raghava Davuluri conducts research that is crucial to the present and future of space exploration.

KY-INBRE Essential Bioinformatics Workshop

Applications for the 2024 UK/UofL/KY-INBRE NGS Essential Bioinformatics Workshop are open    

UK celebrates opening of engineering lab designed to advance US manufacturing

On May 29, the Pigman College of Engineering held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Next Generation Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory (NextGen AMRL), the newest addition to the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing.

UK researcher receives NSF CAREER award to develop data-driven, smart technologies for sustainable living

Hana Khamfroush, Ph.D., associate professor in the Pigman College of Engineering, recently received the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

16 faculty named 2024-25 University Research Professors

Established by the Board of Trustees in 1976, the professorships program recognizes excellence across the full spectrum of research at UK.