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Herculaneum scroll with red laser lines being scanned at Institut de France by Brent Seales and his team. Photo Credit: EduceLab.

BREAKTHROUGH: Discovery made from within 2,000 year-old Herculaneum scrolls

The Herculaneum scrolls are among the most iconic and inaccessible of the world’s vast collection of damaged manuscripts, but since being burned and carbonized by the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE, they’ve been deemed “unreadable.” 

Until now. 

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In Their Words: Making the Impossible, Possible

The story of how the UK Engineering Paducah Campus was born out of a supercharged phone call in a Lockheed Martin office, from the engineer who took the impromptu leap of logic. 

Great Teachers 2023: Dibakar Bhattacharyya helps students realize their full potential

Dibakar Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., is one of this year’s Great Teacher Award recipients. For the UK College of Engineering professor known across campus as "DB," there is nothing more exciting than that “aha!” moment when a student realizes their full potential. Teaching students continues to drive Bhattacharyya, now in his sixth decade at UK.

Spotlights

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Patty Dunaway, P.E.

Patty is currently the Vice President/Office Executive for the Louisville Office of Michael Baker International.


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Logan Clark, P.E.

Logan is currently a professional engineer for Michael Baker International.


Yuxin He (Ph.D. CHE 2020)

Yuxin He graduated with her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Kentucky in 2020. She began working at Moderna in March 2021, where she is a senior engineer.


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