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Harik and Peiris receive new grant from Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
The three-year $315,000 grant will support research on seismically deficient bridges on and over the interstates and parkways in Western Kentucky.
PPL partners with UK IDEA on award for up to $72 million in federal funding from U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) announced today it has executed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) for an award up to $72 million to help fund a groundbreaking carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture research and development project at the company's natural gas combined-cycle generation facility in Louisville, Kentucky.
Community invited as Kentucky Army National Guard lands Black Hawk helicopters on campus Sept. 19
The University of Kentucky community can witness the Kentucky Army National Guard land Black Hawk utility helicopters on campus beginning at 1 p.m. Sept. 19. The aircraft will be on display through 4 p.m.
David Lu, Ph.D candidate and US Department of Energy Scholar brings internship experience to Paducah, Ky.
David Lu, completed his summer internship at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) headquarters in Washington, D.C. in August. Lu was able to arrange a tour of a cleanup site near his hometown in Western Kentucky.
Kentucky high schools sponsored by Pigman College of Engineering receive top ranks at national Solar Car Challenge
Somerset Independent High School and Johnson Central High School ranked No. 1 and No. 4, respectively, at the summer competition held at the Texas Motor Speedway.
Prestigious NSF award to advance UK research to track emerging pathogens
Scott Berry, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, is the principal investigator of the six-year cooperative agreement projected to be nearly $18 million.
UK Pigman College of Engineering recommends the formation of the Institute for Decarbonization and Energy Advancement (IDEA)
UK Pigman College of Engineering recommends the formation of the Institute for Decarbonization and Energy Advancement (IDEA).
Pigman College of Engineering welcomes 10 new faculty members.
This fall, the University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering welcomed 10 new faculty members.
CLIMBS: Change of climate: Professors lead team to find out what’s heating up in Kentucky
A Q&A with Michael M. McGlue, professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Sebastian Bryson, chair of civil engineering in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, about the $20 million collaborative project to build climate resilience in Kentucky.
UK researcher receives NSF CAREER award to create safe, smart target drone capturing
Xu Jin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his research involving learning-based cooperative control algorithms for multi-agent systems to capture and manage target drones.