On March 24, the University of Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute (KWRRI), in conjunction with the UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES), UK Superfund Research Center...
Tag - Research
Chelsea Colley
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...
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...
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
In Case You Missed It: Meet Jesse Okorafor, a doctoral student and an energy engineering intern at the University of Kentucky
In this article, I conduct an interview with doctorate student, Jesse Okorafor, who also plays an active role in sustainability on UK’s campus. I spoke with Jesse about his background in energy conservation, his...
Everything is Science citywide festival returns
Everything is Science, Lexington’s citywide science festival, returns for its fifth year with an exciting new theme: It’s About Time! What can seem like an intimidating topic is, in reality, quite relatable —...
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...
Abstract submission, registration open for UK’s 2022 Food, Energy, and Water Symposium
Leaders from across the University of Kentucky, the Lexington community and the Commonwealth will gather to discuss issues that impact all Kentuckians at the 2022 Food, Energy and Water Symposium (FEWS)...
David Melanson
Prestigious NSF award advances UK researcher’s low-cost water treatment work
Along the rivers that snake across the Commonwealth, you’ll find a University of Kentucky researcher taking samples to study the health of the water flowing through the state. Tiffany Messer, Ph.D., an assistant...
Join us October 18th for AASHE: the Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education
For the third year in a row, the University of Kentucky is proud to announce that it will serve as a host institution for the Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education. The virtual conference will take...
