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UK researchers participating in a DOE funded multi-institutional center (BETCy Energy Frontier Research Center) have discovered a groundbreaking process that allows them to harness energy from chemical reactions that previously dismissed as unusable.

Assistant Professor Bert Guillou in the Department of Mathematics has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for his research in homotopy theory. The grant is just shy of $140,000 and will be spread over three years.

Yinan Wei, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Kentucky, has received an award to study membrane protein oligomerizations in bilayers. The project also integrates an outreach program for girls aged 12-18 at the Hope Hill Youth Service, introducing science and science careers.

Kenneth Graham, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a $750,000 CAREER Award from the Department of Energy. This award supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research programs in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science.

UKAccel, a joint program of the Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship and the Office of Technology Commercialization at UK, educates UK researchers on turning their intellectual property into startup companies.

A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that when therapy-sensitive cancer cells die, they release a "killer peptide" that can eliminate therapy-resistant cells.

The Office of the Vice President for Research has created two new resources for faculty, staff and students engaged in research at UK. Both of these resources require a linkblue login.

The gift goes to the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment's new Grain and Forage Center of Excellence in Western Kentucky.

NASA has announced two new three-year awards totaling $850,000 for the NASA Kentucky EPSCoR Program, hosted at the University of Kentucky.

Gentry's research on a plant protein that stores sugars like the human protein implicated in Lafora disease, led him to an international partnership to find a cure.