Electrical and computer engineering professor Dr. Larry Hassebrook has researched Structured Light Illumination and 3D scanning for over 30 years. Testing the applications and benefits of his scanner prototypes has led him everywhere from graveyards at midnight to rappelling into once inaccessible caves. However, this past summer, Dr. Hassebrook put his equipment to the ultimate [...]
Civil engineering assistant professor Dr. Sebastian Bryson was recently awarded a Ken Freedman Outstanding Advisor Award. The awards, which are sponsored by the UK Advising Network and the Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, are named in honor of Ken Freedman, who served as a professional adviser at UK for 15 years prior [...]
Computer Science Ph.D. student and teaching assistant Joshua Guerin received the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching in the teaching assistant category during the Founders Day Ceremony held February 22. For those who know and have spent time with Guerin, the award comes as no surprise: Joshua Guerin simply loves to teach. Guerin’s teaching resume reflects [...]
Each year, the Provost’s Office culls through nomination letters, student evaluations, peer recommendations and other selected criteria and emerges with its winners of the Provost’s Awards for Outstanding Teaching—awards established by the Provost to reward and encourage excellence in teaching. A maximum of six awards may be given from among the entire university’s faculty. This [...]
Mining engineering professor Dr. Braden Lusk has been named as the recipient of two prominent awards: the J.W. Woomer Award and the International Society of Explosives Engineers President’s Award. The J.W. Woomer Award is a national award presented by the Coal & Energy Division of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration to a recipient [...]
The University of Kentucky College of Engineering is pleased to welcome Dr. Randall Pinkett to speak about the value of communication tthroughout his impressive career at a free public lunch from 11:30 to 12:30pm on Friday, February 24, 2012 in the Raymond Student Commons Area of the Ralph G. Anderson Building. All students, faculty and [...]
On Friday, November 7, 2008, mechanical engineering junior Tom May called his father, Rob, to talk about the Baptist Campus Ministry retreat commencing that night in southern Kentucky. “He felt that as one of the older students, he was responsible for the younger guys on the retreat. For him, that meant he should drive to [...]
The 5th Ablation Workshop, hosted by the University of Kentucky, will take place February 28-March 1, 2012 at the Downtown Hilton Hotel. Mechanical engineering professors Alexandre Martin and Sean Bailey will serve as the conference hosts. Participants will have the opportunity to engage a multi-disciplinary research community of scientists and engineers representing government agencies, the [...]
February 8, 2012. A thick, wet snow coats the tree branches, sidewalks and roofs of the University of Kentucky. What has been a mild winter in Lexington is forecasted to turn colder. Students trudge to classes, fogged breath and impatient sniffles bearing unhappy witness to the changes occurring so close to spring. Meanwhile, four biosystems [...]
The International Scale Modeling Committee (ISMC) has announced that Its Seventh International Symposium on Scale Modeling will be held in Hirosaki, Japan, in August 2013.
Last updated: May 22, 2013