The second annual Chemical and Materials Engineering Graduate Student Poster Competition was held Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 in the Ralph G. Anderson Student Commons. The event was organized by the Chemical and Materials Engineering Graduate Student Association (CMEGSA) and sponsored by Eastman Chemical Company. Fifteen graduate students presented posters on their research in subjects ranging [...]
A new university chapter of the Materials Research Society (MRS) was approved for the University of Kentucky on August 12, 2010 MRS, which was founded in 1973, consists of over 15,100 members from the US and also from nearly 70 other countries. At present, MRS boasts almost 50 active University Chapters throughout the US, some [...]
The Department of Chemical and Materials engineering is pleased to announce the first talk of their fall seminars will be given by Dr. Kyung A. Kang from the University of Louisville Department of Chemical Engineering. The title of the presentation is “Metal Nanoparticles for Bio-sensing/Imaging and Hyperthermia“. A complete abstract for the talk can be [...]
Materials Engineering senior Elizabeth Fadde was selected as the recipient of the 2010 UK College of Engineering, Lou Takacs Cooperative Education Award. This award is given annually to a student who has completed at least three co-op semesters and has demonstrated exemplary performance and outcomes from that experience. Fadde served as a co-op at General [...]
Samantha Meenach, a 2010 graduate with a doctoral degree in chemical engineering was one of five University of Kentucky students and alumni selected as recipients of Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships.
Chemical and materials engineering students Luke Richardson from the Paducah campus and Andrea Ramsey from the Lexington campus traveled to Hangzhou, China with Dr. Jeffrey Seay to attend the Second International Symposium of Sustainable Chemical Product and Process Engineering. Both students participated at the conference by presenting posters detailing the results of their undergraduate research [...]
University of Kentucky chemical engineering students and the student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) were again prominent at this year’s AIChE Southern Regional Conference. Twenty-nine students from Lexington participated in the conference that was held April 9-11 in Raleigh, N.C. Kevin Baldridge, Chelsie Bottom, Eric Coker, Lisa He, Alex Heilman, and [...]
UK College of Engineering alum Mark Davis (chemical engineering ’77, ’78, ’81) is at the forefront of devising minute capsules to transport cancer-fighting drugs to their intended targets. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/facebook/7019056.html
Dr. Kimberly Ward Anderson, Gill Eminent Professor of Chemical Engineering, received a University Research Professorship for 2010-2011 from the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees. Anderson was among five University of Kentucky faculty members awarded a research professorship, which carries a $40,000 award to support research. Anderson plans to use her award to expand her [...]
A team of department faculty, Thomas Dziubla, assistant professor, Richard Eitel, assistant professor, Kimberly Anderson, professor and J. Zach Hilt, assistant professor were recently awarded a three year DEPSCoR grant from…
Last updated: January 16, 2013