As one of UK Paducah’s four chemical engineering professors, students expect to see Jim Smart hard at work in the classroom; yet, it’s understandable when they are surprised to see him sitting next to them as a student. Read Full Profile
On November 10, the University of Kentucky College of Engineering and the Girl Scouts hosted the eighth annual Girls in Engineering, Math & Science (GEMS) event. The collaborative effort was once again a huge success, attracting 250 grade school and middle school girls from central and eastern Kentucky. “I am grateful to our faculty volunteers [...]
Professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering Douglass Kalika has been elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). According to the organization’s guidelines, Fellows are elite members of AIChE who have been practicing chemical engineering for normally 25 years or more, and have been a member for at [...]
The University of Kentucky American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) student chapters recently attended the AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA (October 27 – November 2). Thirty undergraduates from Lexington attended this meeting and participated in a wide variety of conference events. Sixteen students representing the Paducah chapter also attended. The Lexington UK AIChE student [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 8, 2012) — Three patents from the University of Kentucky National Institute of Environmental Health Science’s Superfund Research Program (SRP) have been licensed by Sepro Membranes, Inc. in Oceanside, Calif. Dibakar Bhattacharyya, University Alumni Professor of Chemical Engineering in the UK College of Engineering, serves as principal investigator on the projects. Read [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (October 5, 2012) – The University of Kentucky’s Nihar Shah, a postdoctoral scholar in the chemical and materials engineering department, received a second-place award and cash prize of $750 for his research poster at the recent annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Affiliates for Life Sciences (OVALS) held in Louisville. Read Full Article
The University of Kentucky recently hosted Biomaterials Day, a regional conference sponsored by the Society for Biomaterials, UK College of Engineering and Bose Corporation. The conference was a collaborative effort among UK, Purdue University, and Case Western Reserve University to highlight cutting edge research in the field of biomaterials and showcase student work. Keynote speaker [...]
The College of Engineering’s freshman class of 2012-2013 is notable on many levels. Thirteen of the university’s 51 Singletary Scholars are engineering students, as are 18 out of 66 Patterson Scholarship winners. Among such examples of the impressive academic quality the college attracts are three students who accomplished a rare feat: attaining perfect scores on [...]
Gill Professor Thomas Dziubla received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering with honors from Purdue University and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Drexel University. Due to his interest in medical research, Dr. Dziubla trained as a NRSA postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Environmental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania College of Medicine, where [...]
Thursday, August 2 marked the conclusion of a summer’s worth of research for students enrolled in the UK College of Engineering’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program in bioactive interfaces and devices. To concisely summarize their weeks of intense work, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, students designed research posters which were displayed in the Raymond [...]
Last updated: January 16, 2013