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Jonathan Pham Receives NSF CAREER Award
Jonathan Pham, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The award will fund his project "Wetting and dynamics on soft and swollen polymeric surfaces" in the amount of $570,000 over five years.
BBC Publishes Article on UK Researchers' Work with Drones and Cattle
Jesse Hoagg, Michael Sama and Josh Jackson have been developing a way for farmers to autonomously monitor cattle using drones.
William Ford Receives New NSF Grant
The project is titled, “RII Track-4: Elucidating Controls of Sediment Phosphorus Delivery to Tile-Drains” and will be funded in the amount of $226,757.
Guigen Zhang Receives New Patent
The patent is titled, “Electrical Double Layer in Nanopores for Detection and Identification of Molecules and Submolecular Units.”
Zach Agioutantis Named Associate Editor of Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Journal
Agioutantis is the first faculty member to represent the University of Kentucky on the editorial board of the publication.
Sidrah Liaqat Receives First Place during CCS Poster Competition
Liaqat’s poster was titled, “Predicting ASD Diagnosis in Children with Synthetic and Image-based Eye Gaze Data.”
Simone Silvestri Co-PI on $1.5 Million NSF Award to Form Smart and Connected Farms
The project contributes to Silvestri's work in applying novel communication technologies to cyber-physical systems towards solving interdisciplinary research problems.
Brazing Aluminum Alloys in Space with Dusan Sekulic
Since 2017, Dusan P. Sekulic, Secat J. G. Morris Aluminum Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been leading an estimated $1 million international research project funded by NASA and the Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities in Russia.
Reimagining the Internet on a Global Scale
A new $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will expand FABRIC, a project to build the nation’s largest cyberinfrastructure testbed, to four distinguished scientific institutions in Asia and Europe. Jim Griffioen, a professor in the Department of Computer Science is a co-principal investigator on the NSF project.
Annamalai Receives Igniting Research Collaborations Pilot Grant
Annamalai's project is titled “Effect of mechanical strain on myokine secretion and its role in diabetic bone disease.”