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Spring 2024 Dean's List includes 953 engineering students

The University of Kentucky has released its Dean's List for the spring 2024 semester. A total of 8,580 students were recognized for their outstanding academic performance – 953 were from the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering.

Left to Right: Lisa Cassis, UK vice president for research; Rudy Buchheit, dean of the UK Pigman College of Engineering; UK Provost Robert S. DiPaola; U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell; and I.S. Jawahir, principal investigator.

UK celebrates opening of engineering lab designed to advance US manufacturing

On May 29, the University of Kentucky’s Stanley and Karen 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 (ISM).

From left: Asa O'Neal and Harrison Yang. The Wildcats were selected from a pool of 1,353 undergraduates nominated by 446 institutions. Photos provided.

2 UK engineering students awarded 2024-25 Goldwater Scholarship

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. 

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Alex Castle

Alex Castle (BSCHE 2010) was the first female head distiller in Tennessee, overseeing all facets of production at Old Dominick Distillery in Memphis.


Alumni & Philanthropy Chemical Engineering

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Becca & Cassie Roberts

Becca & Cassie Roberts

Sisters Becca and Cassie Roberts—both with degrees from other institutions—have been elated to receive ample scholarship aid from UK.


Chemical Engineering Computer Science

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Savannah Lewis

Savannah Lewis

Electrical engineering senior Savannah Lewis is changing the face of engineering in the pursuit of her dream to become an astronaut.


Electrical and Computer Engineering

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