Established in 2024, the Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Endowment supports faculty, research, graduate students, facilities and research infrastructure in the Pigman College of Engineering. In its inaugural year, the endowment has made $160,000 in funds available for distribution, with a priority on faculty and research scholar support.
Scott Berry, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, is the principal investigator of the six-year cooperative agreement projected to be nearly $18 million.
This fall, the University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering welcomed 10 new faculty members.
Guoqiang Yu, Ph.D., a professor in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering in the University of Kentucky Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.
Asa O’Neal, in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Harrison Yang, in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, are 2024-25 recipients of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
Sheng Tong, associate professor, Xiaoyue Yang, post-doctoral scholar and Zhongchao Yi, graduate student in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering awarded $75,000 for winning proposal in NIH Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge.
The Sarah Bennett Holmes Awards is among the most esteemed recognitions bestowed at the University of Kentucky and brings recognition for efforts that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Elaine Duncan, adjunct professor in the University of Kentucky F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE).
Abhijit Patwardhan, professor and interim chair, has been named the chair of the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Kentucky Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering.
143 current UK scientists and scholars were included on the list compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, and 22 of those included are UK Pigman College of Engineering faculty.