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“The virus is about 120 nanometers in size — in the world of membranes, that's large. Even more so, it's not going to come as a virus by itself, flying in the air. It's going to come in the saliva, so it's going to be a much larger particle. A large particle is just not going through (this filter).”

Next month, the state's first-ever STEM Leadership Forum will take place on the UK campus. The event is co-hosted by Kentucky's NSF-sponsored Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Discovery Education.

Suzanne Smith has been elected to the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Only 29 of the 33,000 AIAA members from across the U.S. and around the world were selected.

KY NSF's EPSCoR, has awarded UK, UofL and six other institutions across the state a five-year, $24 million grant to advance next generation manufacturing technologies, flexible electronics and robotics.

Undergraduate researcher Courtney McKelphin is part of the Kentucky NSF EPSCoR Research Scholars Program.

The "Powering the Kentucky Bioeconomy for a Sustainable Future" project has been awarded $20 million from NSF.

Kentucky NSF EPSCoR is investing in people and infrastructure to develop a new knowledge-based economy.

This EPSCoR project is gathering real-time water quality data in Kentucky and Montana.

Two NSF grants through EPSCoR kept Nunziata in science and in Kentucky.

This project is gathering real-time water quality data in Kentucky and Montana.