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Bryson elected to NIHS Board of Directors

Nov 25, 2024

The National Institute for Hometown Security is a non-profit organization that protects and preserves critical infrastructure in the rural and underserved communities across the nation.

How Kelly Pennell is engineering a safer world

Nov 4, 2024

Environmental / Water Quality Engineering

Kelly Pennell, Ph.D., professor and Earl Parker Robinson Chair in the Department of Civil Engineering and director of the UK Superfund Research Center, discusses her research on pollution and its impacts on the environment and public health.

Unprecedented flooding devastated parts of Eastern Kentucky in July 2022, including Hindman in Knott County. UK researchers want to be better prepared for flooding. Hilary Brown

UK leads study focusing on flash flooding in Appalachia, preparation, prevention

Oct 14, 2024

A group of UK researchers are partners on the four-year project, “The Flooding in Appalachian Streams and Headwaters Initiative: Mitigating impacts of climate change and flash flooding in Appalachia," which aims to better understand and be better prepared for future flooding events.

Ariel Robinson presenting at Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

Ph.D. candidate gives outstanding performance at annual symposium

Oct 2, 2024

Ariel Robinson, Ph.D. candidate in the University of Kentucky Department of Civil Engineering, was honored with the award for most outstanding platform presenter at the Kentucky Water Resources Institute Annual Symposium.

Harik and Peiris receive new grant from Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

Sep 16, 2024

The three-year $315,000 grant will support research on seismically deficient bridges on and over the interstates and parkways in Western Kentucky.

CLIMBS: Change of climate: Professors lead team to find out what’s heating up in Kentucky

Aug 9, 2024

A Q&A with Michael M. McGlue, professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Sebastian Bryson, chair of civil engineering in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, about the $20 million collaborative project to build climate resilience in Kentucky.

SpaceLex, UK’s rocketry and propulsion team, takes 1st place at national competition

Jul 30, 2024

SpaceLex, the University of Kentucky Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering’s student-led rocketry team, won first place at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR-51025UNL) competition in the Mojave Desert in Randsburg, California.

Two young women building a tower structure with wood craft materials.

SEEK Welcomes High School Students for its Inaugural Engineering Summer Camp

Jun 27, 2024

SEEK allows students to explore various facets of civil engineering that deal with infrastructure and infrastructure systems.

L to R: J. Chris Adkins, Maj. Gen. Trey Rawls, Anna Workman, Rusty Justice, David Servis and Ollie Akel.

Pigman College of Engineering inducts 2024 class into Hall of Distinction

J. Chris Adkins, Ollie James Akel, Charles 'Rusty' Justice, Maj. Gen. Trey Rawls, David B. Servis and Anna C. Workman were inducted into the Pigman College of Engineering Hall of Distinction on April 18, 2024.

Apr 5, 2024

Initiated in 1992, the Hall of Distinction recognizes and honors UK College of Engineering alumni for exemplary professional accomplishments, outstanding character and an ongoing commitment to community service. Every member of the Hall of Distinction is honored with a plaque in the lobby of the Ralph G. Anderson Mechanical Engineering Building. All members and extended bios are listed here.

Erhardt's research helps inform Georgia voters

Feb 29, 2024

Gregory Erhardt, Raymond Blythe Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, recently contributed to a story on an upcoming voter referendum that would further invest in transit in Cobb County.

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