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UK Invites Community to Celebrate its 100th E-Day Open House

A decades-long tradition, UK Engineering held its first E-Day on May 26, 1921. The university dismissed classes at noon to allow the community to tour the college and see its researchers and students in action. Now, an estimated 3,000 people attend E-Day each year.

From left to right: Emorie Jackson, Seun Adekunle, Jessica Howard, Bryce Grant, Jayla McCoy, Jesse Okorafor, Oluwatofunmi Oyetan,  Nnaemeka Okafor.

UK NSBE Chapter Receives Living Legacy Award for Community Impact at MLK Legacy Luncheon

The University of Kentucky's Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) received the 2023 Living Legacy Award for Community Impact at the Second Annual MLK Legacy Luncheon on February 2, 2023.

Sheng Tong Wins NIH Award for Innovative Gene Editing Approach to Treat Blood Disorders

Sheng Tong, associate professor in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, and a multi-disciplinary team, including Ying Liang, associate professor in the College of Medicine, has won a National Institute of Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute R21 Award for his cutting-edge work on gene editing techniques to treat genetic blood disorders.

Department Spotlights

Lauren Bell

Through the biomedical engineering minor, Lauren Bell experienced graduate-level classes that led her to pursue a master's degree in biomedical engineering. 


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Student

Fanny Chapelin

Research assistant professor Fanny Chapelin just completed her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at University of California at San Diego.


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Faculty

Caigang Zhu

Prior to joining UK this fall, assistant professor Caigang Zhu was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.


Biomedical Engineering

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