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UK doctoral student collaborates with adviser to write key primer on hydrocarbon biofuels

“Hydrocarbon Biofuels” will not top the New York Times’ best-seller list for nonfiction books, but for Great C. Umenweke, it’s quite an opportunity, and one that could help humans turn waste into renewable energy. Umenweke, a doctoral...

Ella Sides

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Forrest Dills, CAER Undergrad, Forging His Path in Materials Science

Dills’ work, like much at UK CAER, is built off sustainability and using recyclable materials to positively impact energy emissions. “We create synthetic graphite electrodes for our batteries out of materials like waste coal,” said Dills. “To put it...

Ella Sides

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UK researchers develop greener, more sustainable ways to recover metals from electronic waste

As electronic waste (e-waste) piles up globally, researchers at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering are spearheading innovative methods to...

Ella Sides

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Recycle your cooking oil for biofuel research at the Gobble Grease Toss

This holiday season, University of Kentucky researchers want to recycle your used cooking oil and study it. It’s part of the 14th annual Gobble Grease Toss held on Black Friday. If you’re frying a turkey this...

Katherine Johnson

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Paterson paper advances organic electronics field

Merit analysis is a vital element of the scientific process, ensuring that research is based on rigorous evidence and sound methodology. It enables scientific advancement, boosts credibility, quality and reliability for...

Katherine Johnson

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UK oral history project documenting climate change, empowering Kentuckians

How important is word of mouth when understanding climate change? A new project, led by the Kentucky Climate Consortium (KYCC) research team at the University of Kentucky, is proving that oral...

Katherine Johnson

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UK researchers develop novel method to turn coal waste into carbon fiber

Researchers at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) have developed a method to turn Kentucky waste coal into valuable carbon products. Kentucky is the seventh-largest coal...

Julia Hill

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UK receives renewed award to continue environmental health research in Appalachia

The University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES)will continue its work to study major environmental health impacts on Kentuckians with a renewed award from...

Katherine Johnson

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KGS Project Measures Methane Emissions from Orphaned Oil, Gas Wells

Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) geologist Marty Parris, in collaboration with the Kentucky Division of Oil and Gas, is leading a two-year, $835,145 project to measure methane emissions from orphaned oil and...

Chelsea Colley

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Community Research

UK for KY Rapid Response Pilot and Mini-grant Funding

The rainfall on July 27th, 2022 in a 12-county area of Eastern Kentucky was an unprecedented meteorological event even for an area that experiences semi-frequent flooding. Climate-related changes in weather patterns are...

Chelsea Colley

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Dozens of schools interested in UK CAER’s GEN-EV racing program

Dozens of schools across the Commonwealth want to join a STEM-based program run by the University of Kentucky’s Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER). The GEN-EV program teaches students...

Chelsea Colley

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Unique Public-Private Research Consortium Established CAER as CO2 Capture Pioneers

In the mid-2000s, it had become abundantly clear that capturing carbon dioxide was the engineering challenge of our time. No matter the audience — industry leaders, government officials and researchers — there...

Chelsea Colley

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Q&A: Environmental health scientist Erin Haynes on potential impacts of the East Palestine disaster

On Feb. 3, a train carrying hazardous materials near East Palestine, Ohio, derailed. Following the crash, some of the chemicals were intentionally burned in a controlled explosion in an effort to manage the release...

Chelsea Colley

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Student Success at Home and Abroad with UK NRT

A quick scan of news headlines over the past year and anyone can see how the intersection of our food, energy, and water systems is having major impacts across Kentucky, the nation, and the world. Interestingly, one UK...

Donavan Moore

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Distilleries finding “bourbon shrooms” profitable for spent grains

Mushrooms and distilleries have quite a bit in common thanks to students at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. With funding from the UK...

Chelsea Colley

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UK doctoral student collaborates with adviser to write key primer on hydrocarbon biofuels

Forrest Dills, CAER Undergrad, Forging His Path in Materials Science

UK researchers develop greener, more sustainable ways to recover metals from electronic waste

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Recycle your cooking oil for biofuel research at the Gobble Grease Toss

Paterson paper advances organic electronics field

UK oral history project documenting climate change, empowering Kentuckians

UK researchers develop novel method to turn coal waste into carbon fiber

UK receives renewed award to continue environmental health research in Appalachia

KGS Project Measures Methane Emissions from Orphaned Oil, Gas Wells

UK for KY Rapid Response Pilot and Mini-grant Funding

Dozens of schools interested in UK CAER’s GEN-EV racing program

Unique Public-Private Research Consortium Established CAER as CO2 Capture Pioneers

Q&A: Environmental health scientist Erin Haynes on potential impacts of the East Palestine disaster

Student Success at Home and Abroad with UK NRT

Distilleries finding “bourbon shrooms” profitable for spent grains

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