A team of students and faculty from the University of Kentucky Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering will make history in Norway, launching a UK-developed payload as part of NASA’s GHOST spaceflight mission.
Ibrahim Jawahir, Ph.D., professor of mechanical engineering, and director of the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing (ISM), received the UK Sustainability Yanarella Levine Legacy Award at the 2025 Sustainability Showcase. The award recognize members of the UK Community who have contributed a tremendous body of work supporting a legacy of sustainability at the University of Kentucky and beyond.
Thanks to the generous support of Stanley and Karen Pigman and Kentucky’s Research Challenge Trust Fund (RCTF), engineering researchers are receiving additional annual funding to enhance the research priorities and programs of the Pigman College of Engineering. Established in 2024, the Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Endowment supports faculty, research, graduate students, facilities and research infrastructure in the Pigman College of Engineering. This year, the endowment made $235,000 in funds available for distribution.
Katelyn Straw, junior, took first place in the undergraduate category and Odianosen Ewah, doctoral candidate, took second place in the graduate category.
Simone Silvestri, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Computer Science in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, is part of a research team that has been awarded a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to answer that very question.
Alumnus Nathaniel Hudson was awarded the Torch of Excellence Award alongside current graduate student, Joshna Kurra, who received the Torch Bearer Award.
The Todds continue to support the university in myriad ways, including a recent gift to permanently endow the Patricia Brantley Todd Endowed Fund for Excellence, which supports UK Cooperative Extension Service programs and a biannual award for exemplary service by faculty and staff.
The Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering will host E-Day on Saturday, Feb. 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Over 100 exhibitors will set up interactive displays, demonstrations and exhibits, geared toward a K-12 audience.
UK is the institution with the largest number of faculty receiving this American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics distinction this year.
University of Kentucky alum Cynthia “Cinthy” Fanning, is the current vice president of kitchen clean up products at GE Appliances. At the company’s Appliance Park global headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, the $450 million installation of two new dishwasher manufacturing lines has created approximately 1,000 jobs in the Commonwealth.
