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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 ASCEND to propel community-engaged health equity research

Dr. Kevin Pearson, professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, RSP co-director, and Deputy Director of UKSRC, is a member of UK ASCEND, a new project at the University of Kentucky expanding new avenues to develop community-engaged health equity research expertise among early-stage investigators. Read the full story on UKNOW.

Pigman College of Engineering welcomes 10 new faculty members.

This fall, the University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering welcomed 10 new faculty members.

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).

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.

New Provisional Faculty Senate Executive Committee

Dr. Kelly Pennell, Director of UKSRC, and Dr. Hollie Swanson, Professor in College of Medicine and Faculty Trustee, chosen to serve on Provisional Faculty Senate Executive Committee. Read press release from the Office of the Provost.

Silvestri, Liao and Cheung receive grant to develop new cybersecurity curriculum

Simone Silvestri in the Department of Computer Science and Yuan Liao and Samson Cheung in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are the recipients of a NCAE-C Cybersecurity Workforce Innovation Coalition grant award to develop a new cybersecurity curriculum.

Young and Adams receive grant extension from Office of Naval Research

John Young and Rob Adams, faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have received a one-year extension of their award from the Office of Naval Research to study electromagnetic fields in seawater.

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.

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