Coal has long been the fuel at the heart of energy production in the Commonwealth. Kentuckians often grow up with stories of their grandfather’s days in the mines. But researchers at the University of Kentucky are finding ways to repurpose coal for energy storage — in the form of lithium-ion batteries.
Diana Byrne received the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her work addressing long-standing challenges facing small water utilities.
UK researchers — along with collaborators from across the USA — gathered at Buckhorn School in Perry County last month to work with high school students on a water-testing device developed at UK.
UK Innovator, Guoqiang Yu, from the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, describes his work developing low-cost optical imaging technologies for noninvasive monitoring of the health and function of tissues and organs.
Researchers from UK's Karen and Stanley Pigman College of Engineering were awarded $2 million from the NSF to develop a cutting-edge weather forecasting system with the NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research.
A team of students and faculty from UK's Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering will make history in Norway, launching a UK-developed payload as part of NASA’s GHOST spaceflight mission.
