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CAER, ORNL Research Partnership to Turn Coal Into High-value Carbon Fiber
The collaboration will allow two of the world’s leading carbon fiber research and development organizations to maximize their respective expertise in the field.
Dual-purpose Hemp Cultivars Have Best Biofuel Potential
In the study led by BAE assistant professor Jian Shi, the dual-purpose cultivars that had the best biofuel potential, which uses the stalk, also produced grain.
Kentucky Part of New Tier 1 University Transportation Center
Gregory Erhardt, assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, is the PI for UK.
Hala Nassereddine Receives ELECTRI International Early Career Award
The purpose of the Early Career Award is to initiate a relationship with young researchers who will bring a new focus into the ELECTRI “research family.”
Martha Grady Leading Major Research Project through NIH COBRE Grant
Assistant professor Martha Grady will lead the project titled "Quantitative Mechanical Phenotyping of Bacterial Biofilms on Implant Surfaces."
Researchers Publish Study Looking at Approaches to Better Treat Alzheimer's Disease
Ai-Ling Lin is an associate professor at UK's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and College of Medicine with a joint appointment in BME.
Reading the Unreadable: Seales and Team Reveal Dead Sea Scroll Text
Brent Seales, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, is considered the foremost expert in the digital restoration of damaged and unreadable manuscripts.
Dibakar Bhattacharyya to Receive 2020 AIChE Separations Division Founders Award
Bhattacharyya recently received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the NSF to develop a mask that will deactivate COVID-19 on contact.
Escobar, Alumnus Wooldridge, Team Up to Confront COVID-19 With Antiviral Membrane, 3D-printed Face Masks
The masks are designed to inactivate the coronavirus.
Guoqiang Yu's Novel Noncontact Imaging Device Could Change Healthcare
In 2020, his team has been awarded four grants from the National Institutes of Health that total nearly $5.7 million.