Brad Plaster has been named the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor for the 2025-26 academic year, an honor that recognizes excellence in research, teaching, service and leadership.
Diana Byrne received the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her work addressing long-standing challenges facing small water utilities.
Yang Xiao received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award for his work helping self-driving vehicles and drones communicate, making future transportation safer and more reliable.
Kristi Bartlett, from the UK College of Design, received a prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award to study spatial skills, student motivation and the real-world tools learners use to master CAD.
In a database compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, 125 current UK scientists and scholars appear among the top 2% of the most-cited researchers across 22 disciplines.
In this episode of “Behind the Blue,” Dr. Lindsay Ragsdale discusses her career at UK, the role of palliative care, the growth of the children’s hospital and her own son’s experience as a pediatric cardiology patient.
NSF CAREER Award recipient Xin Liang helps scientists work more efficiently with massive datasets across fields such as climatology, cosmology and topography.
