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UK celebrates opening of engineering lab designed to advance US manufacturing
On May 29, the University of Kentucky’s Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Next Generation Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory (NextGen AMRL), the newest addition to the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing (ISM).
Rollie Mills recipient of Karen Wetterhahn Award
Rollie Mills, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering and UK Superfund Research Program Center trainee, was selected by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Superfund Research Program (SRP) the 26th recipient of the Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award.
Markey Research Day highlights breadth, depth of cancer research
Graduate student Ibrahim Imam took second place in the basic science poster presentations.
2024 College of Engineering Faculty Awards
The annual College of Engineering Faculty Awards ceremony was held on April 25 at Malone's Prime and Events. Awards were given in the areas of research, service and graduate studies.
Materials science innovator named 2023 AAAS Fellow
Yang-Tse Cheng, the Frank J. Derbyshire Professor of Materials Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, has been named an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow.
2 UK engineering students awarded 2024-25 Goldwater Scholarship
Asa O’Neal, in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Harrison Yang, in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, are 2024-25 recipients of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
Tong, Yang and Yi winners in NIH TARGETED Challenge
Sheng Tong, associate professor, Xiaoyue Yang, post-doctoral scholar and Zhongchao Yi, graduate student in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering awarded $75,000 for winning proposal in NIH Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge.
UK grad ‘soars back’ after 40 years, becoming 1st to earn Ph.D. in aerospace engineering
“When I started at UK almost 45 years ago, I could not have imagined in my mind — nor even in any theoretical parallel universe — that I would be getting an aerospace Ph.D. from here,” Sinha said. “Much less to be the first recipient of the degree with an aerospace major. When you get older, you start to think about legacy, and this is a legacy that will endure.”
UK Women’s Forum announces 30th anniversary Sarah Bennett Holmes Award winners
The Sarah Bennett Holmes Awards is among the most esteemed recognitions bestowed at the University of Kentucky and brings recognition for efforts that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Pigman College of Engineering inducts 2024 class into Hall of Distinction
J. Chris Adkins, Ollie James Akel, Charles 'Rusty' Justice, Maj. Gen. Trey Rawls, David B. Servis and Anna C. Workman were inducted into the Pigman College of Engineering Hall of Distinction on April 18, 2024.