By Kristie Colon
L to R: James Collard, Katherine Thompson, Penni Black, Madeline Krentz Gober
New findings from University of Kentucky faculty published in Scientific Reports reveals a novel cell signaling interaction that may prevent a key step in lung cancer progression.
Chemistry professor Pete Kekenes-Huskey is a recipient of the Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator grant from the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels. The $110,000 award will seed the development of computational models for predicting methane transport in zeolitic materials, which could help improve our ability to extract valuable chemicals from an abundant catalyst.
University of Kentucky student, Rachel Pagano, explains her undergraduate research experience. Pagano is a Senior Natural Resources and Environmental Science major at UK.
Jane Calvert, an associate professor of history in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, has raised more than a half million dollars, for the John Dickinson Writings Project. This project will collect, transcribe, edit and publish the complete writings of Dickinson, who wrote more for the American cause than any other founding father. Images courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Produced by Research Communications at the University of Kentucky.
By Gail Hairston
University of Kentucky Professor Emeritus Edward Stanton’s young adult, prehistoric fiction novel “Wide as the Wind” has received a second international award — the coveted Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, presented by the Jenkins Group for authors, illustrators and publishers from the United States, Canada and six additional countries.
By Jenny Wells
This weekend, the University of Kentucky Department of Mathematics will host the first Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival for middle and high school students across the state. The event will be held 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 4, in the Don & Cathy Jacobs Science Building.
