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Rebecca Mize Joins BME Department as Student Advisor
Rebecca will be working with undergraduate students in the new undergraduate BME program.
UK Surgeons, Engineer Collaborate on Medical Tech Design
The endoscopic bleeding control device will help improve the safety of complex interventional endoscopic procedures.
Researchers Publish Study Looking at Approaches to Better Treat Alzheimer's Disease
Ai-Ling Lin is an associate professor at UK's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and College of Medicine with a joint appointment in BME.
Stephen Ware, Ph.D. Students Contribute Three Papers to AIIDE Conference
AIIDE is one of the top academic conferences for publishing research on artificial intelligence for games and game-adjacent areas such as training simulations.
Computer Engineering Alumnus Invents "Money Zapper"
Michael Bransom's innovation uses ultraviolet light to kill the bacteria on physical currency.
Reading the Unreadable: Seales and Team Reveal Dead Sea Scroll Text
Brent Seales, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, is considered the foremost expert in the digital restoration of damaged and unreadable manuscripts.
Guigen Zhang Elected Society for Biomaterials President for 2021-2022 Term
Established in 1974, the SFB is the oldest scientific organization in the field of biomaterials.
PEIK, LG&E and KU Expand Research Collaboration on Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid
The two organizations also work together on professional and STEM outreach in support of the regional community.
Zach Agioutantis Named Department of Mining Engineering Chair
Agioutantis joined UK in October 2014 after serving as a professor at the Technical University of Crete (TUC) in Greece for over 25 years.
Dibakar Bhattacharyya to Receive 2020 AIChE Separations Division Founders Award
Bhattacharyya recently received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the NSF to develop a mask that will deactivate COVID-19 on contact.