A team of researchers from the University of Kentucky’s Pigman College of Engineering Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering was selected as an editor’s pick for their paper, "Multi-parametric functional optical spectroscopy to monitor the metabolic and vascular changes in small head and neck tumors in vivo with radiation stress," in the July issue of Biomedical Optics Express.
Tie “Thomas” Luo, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the Best Paper Award at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2025 Workshop on Pattern Mining and Machine Learning for Bioinformatics for his recent work titled “Unlocking Neural Transparency: Jacobian Maps for Explainable AI in Alzheimer’s Detection.”
The University of Kentucky is well-represented on a list of the most-cited researchers in the world. In a database compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, 136 current UK scientists and scholars appear among the top 2% of the most-cited researchers across 22 disciplines. Of those 136 scientists and scholars, 20 are UK Pigman College of Engineering faculty.
Zach Agioutantis, Ph.D., the Mining Engineering Foundation Professor and chair of the Department of Mining Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
The University of Kentucky Materials Science Research Priority Area (mRPA) has selected 11 researchers as recipients of multiple funding awards. Among the are four engineering faculty members.
As Paducah has emerged as the leader of Kentucky’s nuclear energy revival, the University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering – Paducah Campus is preparing to support the region’s workforce needs with the launch of a new course. Debuting this fall, EGR 599: Foundations of Nuclear Engineering: Principles and Applications, is designed to introduce students to the core principles of nuclear science and engineering, including nuclear reactions, reactor physics, radiation safety and nuclear fuel cycles.
Diana M. Byrne, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering in the University of Kentucky Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, is one of nine winners to receive the University of Kentucky’s 2025 Outstanding Teaching Awards.
Recently, mining engineering graduate students from the University of Kentucky student chapter of the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) participated in the ARMA annual student design competition, placing third.
A University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering alumnus is at the helm of one of the country’s most ambitious housing innovation projects. Eric Wooldridge, director of the Kentucky Community Technical College System (KCTCS) Additive Manufacturing Center, located at Somerset Community College (SCC), is spearheading the Floodbuster 1 project, reimagining how homes can be built to withstand disaster, reduce costs and speed up construction using 3D-printed concrete.
Safavi, a Ph.D. candidate in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, was one of 74 students worldwide selected to receive the SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship. This prestigious award, granted by the SPIE Scholarship Committee, recognizes students with strong potential to advance the fields of optics, photonics and related disciplines.
