Xu Tao, a graduate student in the Pigman College of Engineering , was one of 45 scholars from across the nation selected to attend the competitive 2024 CPS Rising Stars Workshop, hosted by the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Researchers in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky are at the forefront of advancing space travel safety and reliability by improving heat shields for NASA’s Artemis program.
Dibakar Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., known as “DB,” has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). DB is the University of Kentucky Alumni Chair Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering and director of the UK Center of Membrane Sciences.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky are exploring new ways to use nanoparticles in combination with other materials as an innovative approach to cancer therapy. The paper titled “Iron Oxide Nanozymes Enhanced by Ascorbic Acid for Macrophage-Based Cancer Therapy” was published earlier this year in Nanoscale, a high-impact journal in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
SPARK Lab researchers within the Power and Energy Institute of Kentucky (PEIK) and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department presented a record number of 11 papers at this year’s edition of the IEEE ECCE Congress.
The Department of Mining Engineering received a donation of over $200,000 from the Friends of Coal - Kentucky organization to support Kentucky students pursuing degrees in mining-related fields.
Last month, 280 of students from 20 Kentucky High School were welcomed to campus for the annual Transition to Engineering (T2E) project kick-off event.
The National Institute for Hometown Security is a non-profit organization that protects and preserves critical infrastructure in the rural and underserved communities across the nation.
Pegah Safavi and Fatemeh Hamedia took home top honors in the 3MT and Pre-3MT competitions.
In November, University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering faculty provided a platform for experts to exchange ideas and innovations in hypersonic atmospheric reentry, materials science and space exploration technologies at the 14th Ablation Workshop at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
