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James Obute Awarded Tau Beta Pi Fellowship
The fellowship will support Obute’s graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Max Dong Receives Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
His research as part of his dissertation was on the development of green methods of fabricating polymeric membranes, their antifouling properties and applications in wastewater treatment.
UK Offering Online Bourbon Production Course Open to Anyone
The University of Kentucky College of Engineering is offering EGR 380: Bourbon Production Engineering in an online format. The course is open to anyone and will run from May 12 – June 23.
DB, Collaborators, Receive NSF RAPID Grant for Antiviral Membrane Mask
DB will serve as the PI and engineering faculty members J. Todd Hastings and Thomas Dziubla, as well as Yinan Wei from the UK Department of Chemistry, will contribute as Co-PIs.
Isabel Escobar Paper Among Most Downloaded in Publication
The paper “Biomimetic and bioinspired membranes for water purification: A critical review and future directions” was among the top 10% of papers downloaded between January 2018 and December 2019.
2020 College of Engineering Tau Beta Pi and Department Awards
Despite the cancellation of the annual UK College of Engineering Awards Banquet sponsored by Tau Beta Pi, each department and Tau Beta Pi have named awardees.
UK’s Superfund Research Center Receives $8.7 Million
The grant will go toward research aimed at better understanding and minimizing the negative health and environmental impacts of chlorinated organic compounds found at Superfund sites.
CAER Spin-off Becoming a Kentucky High-tech Success Story
PowerTech Water develops advanced carbon electrode technologies to deliver clean water for nonenergy production field use in a sustainable manner.
UK Researchers Seek to Develop Antiviral Membrane Mask
Dibakar Bhattacharyya has the concept and the means to develop a medical face mask that would capture and deactivate the COVID-19 virus on contact.
UK’s James B. Beam Institute Providing Sanitizer to Health Care Workers, Manufacturing Instructions to Spirits Industry
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating shortages of sanitizing products in hospitals.