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UK’s John Anthony honored with 2023 SEC Faculty Achievement Award

By Jenny Wells-Hosley, UK PR John Anthony, the C. W. Hammond Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named winner of the 2023 SEC Faculty Achievement Award for the University of Kentucky this spring. Anthony, who also serves as associate director at the Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), was awarded with 13 other …

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UK’s PEDOT Fiber Team tours somerset lab, engage in collab talks

The University of Kentucky’s PEDOT:PSS Fiber team travelled one-and-a-half hours south to visit Somerset Community College and their Additive Manufacturing Program in late March. Dr. Matt Weisenberger of UK’s Center for Applied Energy Research, alongside Dr. Ruben Riquelme-Sarabia and PhD candidate Paula Alarcon-Espejo explored the fabrication of PEDOT:PSS fibers as part of objective 2.1.2 in …

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SCC Professor Eric Wooldridge appointed to National Additive Manufacturing Coalition Advisory Board

Somerset Community College Press Release Somerset, Ky. Last week the Additive Manufacturing(AM) Coalition announced the appointment of eight members to the newly formed advisory board. One of those eight individuals is Somerset Community College Professor, Eric Wooldridge. The AM Coalitionisthenationalmembershiporganizationrecognized as the voice for additive manufacturing with decision-makers and stakeholders, including Federal agencies and Congress. …

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Graduate student , FULLY FUNDED BY KY NSF EPSCOR, receives Minton Award AT WKU

From WKU News: Ahmet Kaan Aydin, an Applied Mathematics graduate student from Istanbul, Turkey, is the 2021-22 recipient of WKU’s John D. Minton Graduate Student Award. “WKU has offered me the opportunity to nurture myself in a variety of areas such as research, teaching, and social activities,” Aydin said. “I am honored to be a …

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EKU: 3D Printing, Organic Electro Chemistry and Physics Come Together for Undergraduate Success

Eastern Kentucky University has a diverse group of three researchers whose work contributes to three of the four research pillars. Their collaborative work both as a team and in working with other KY NSF EPSCoR research groups is vital for our goal of advanced manufacturing in Kentucky. This is a tremendous example of NSF funding …

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Next-Generation Conductive Fibers

Flexible, organic, and conductive. Those are adjectives traditionally applied to PEDOT: PSS. Thanks to Dr. Ruben Sarabia-Riquelme and his cohorts at the University of Kentucky Applied Energy Research (UK CAER), and other collaborators at the University of Louisville, KY NSF EPSCoR funds are adding two more adjectives to PEDOT: PSS: spinnable and printable. Readily available …

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UK, UofL Researchers Collaborate on PEDOT: PSS – Nanocollider

Dr. Matt Weisenberger, University of Kentucky Dr. Ruben Sarabia-Riquelme, University of Kentucky Dr. Cindy Harnett, University of Louisville Dr. Kunal Kate, University of Louisville Dr. Zan Paterson, University of Kentucky Paula Alarcon, University of Kentucky In what was the first nanoCollider featuring cross-institutional presentations, the PEDOT: PSS team featuring research from both the University of …

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UofL gets grant to help minority-owned manufacturers adopt 3D printing

Via UofL News The University of Louisville (UofL) has received a five-year grant totaling $2 million to help minority-owned manufacturing businesses adopt additive manufacturing and 3D printing technology. The grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), will launch the Kentucky MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center, one of only four such …

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Pandemic-born innovation spurs first patent filed through Kentucky’s community college system

Story by By Haley Cawthon – Reporter Back in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Eric Wooldridge and his team at Somerset Community College (SCC) were mass producing thousands of face shields with the use of 3D printers. It was a practical application for SCC’s Additive Manufacturing Center for Excellence, which was developed after …

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Somerset Community College Hosts First Ever nanoCollider

Eric Wooldridge and his Somerset Community College (SCC) team are earning a reputation of firsts. Today was no different as they became the first host of nanoCollider, KY NSF EPSCoR’s new monthly collaboration meeting, with rotating host institutions. KY NSF EPSCoR nanoColliders allow for participants to more broadly identify opportunities to enhance existing cross-institutional collaborations …

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