LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 16, 2012) —In 2005, the University of Kentucky College of Engineering formed a partnership with China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), to offer a mutually beneficial exchange program for students and staff from both institutions. September marked the seventh anniversary of this partnership, which continues to grow and has facilitated the [...]
What city is known as “the orthopedic capital of the world”? Would you believe it is Warsaw, Ind., population: 13,559? Where? You might ask. North-central Indiana, approximately 40 miles from Fort Wayne, the second largest city in the state (population: 255,000), is where. The DePuy Manufacturing Company, which existed independently for over 100 years before [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 9, 2012) ― The Friends of Coal organization donated $83,000 in support of scholarships for undergraduate mining engineering students at the University of Kentucky. The donation was presented during half-time of the Mississippi State-University of Kentucky football game. The funds for the donation originated from the purchase of Friends of Coal license [...]
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 [...]
Dr. Brandon Fornwalt, assistant professor of pediatrics, physiology and biomedical engineering in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Kentucky, has been selected to receive the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Early Independence Award. Read Full Article
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 [...]
The University of Kentucky College of Engineering hosted this year’s national Tau Beta Pi convention, September 27-29 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Lexington. Tau Beta Pi is the national engineering honor society and over 400 student delegates attended the convention. The event featured a formal initiation of new members, a corporate and graduate [...]
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 [...]
This weekend, six former UK athletes will be inducted into the UK Athletics Hall of Fame. Among them is popular wide receiver and kick returner Derek Abney. Abney, who played for the Wildcats from 2000-2003, has been hailed by UK Athletics as, “arguably the greatest kick returner in college football history after setting seven NCAA [...]
Last updated: January 16, 2013