LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 3, 2012) — The University of Kentucky commemorated 25 years of academic supercomputing with the announcement of the most powerful supercomputer in the university’s history and the award of a $1 million “cyber infrastructure” grant from the National Science Foundation. The announcement was part of a cyber infrastructure symposium today, sponsored by UK Information [...]
“We bring the game from the field into the stands!” That is the tag line for a new application named “Crowded,” developed by the Lexington-based mobile application studio Stadionaut. The app challenges fans watching live Major League Baseball games—whether actually attending or watching on television—to predict what will happen next. Users compete against other fans [...]
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
Computer science is a dynamic field where, as Ken Calvert, Ph.D. and chair of the Department of Computer Science, states, “The only way to stay on the leading edge is to invent everything.” Consider that 10 years ago, Facebook, Twitter and iPhones didn’t exist and iPods and digital internet were just coming into play. Ten [...]
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 [...]
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student branch participated in the global IEEE Xtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition on October 21-22. Eight UK teams of three students each competed in the event and one UK team placed 31st out of over 1,500 teams. IEEE UK Student Branch Counselor Regina Hannemann was pleased with the [...]
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 [...]
On Saturday, November 3, the University of Kentucky hosted the Mid-Central Regionals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest. The Mid-Central region includes Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois (including the greater Chicago metropolitan area in Indiana), Kentucky and Tennessee. Over 150 teams competed at several satellite sites. The Lexington site was organized by [...]
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 [...]
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