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Suriano Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Award, a First at WKU

Project 1 - Enhance Weather Understanding, Project 7 - Integrate Artificial Intelligence, Western Kentucky University / By

Since 1986, KY NSF EPSCoR Track-1 funding has supported hundreds of new faculty hires across Kentucky institutions. These faculty have helped build Kentucky research infrastructure, leading to innovations in energy, agriculture, advanced manufacturing, and most currently, climate hazard resilience through the CLIMBS project.  Many of these researchers, after an initial support boost through their Track-1, …

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UK Researchers, Hired Under Track-1, Awarded $1 Million DOE Metal Recovery Grant

Bioeconomy Track-1 (2014-2018), University of Kentucky / By

Congrats to Jian Shi and Isabel Escobar, two Track-1 EPSCoR recruits from our Bioeconomy project (2014-2018), on their new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant at the University of Kentucky. Shi is leading a group that will spearhead innovative methods to recover valuable metals from discarded devices and industrial waste. A perfect example of how …

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Another testament to the connective power of KY NSF EPSCoR.

Collaboration, University of Kentucky, Western Kentucky University / By

The National Institutes of Health grant titled, Radon on the RADAR, is a project led by Nursing Professor Stacy Stanifer, PhD, APRN, AOCNS and UK EES PhD student Donna Robinson, GIT of the Kentucky Geological Survey. It seeks to analyze soil processes and characteristics that correlate to high radon values indoors. A key factor in …

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KGS, Project 2 Unveils State-of-the-Art Lab for Flood Modeling Research

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Taken from the KGS Website: https://www.uky.edu/KGS/news/2025_2_3_SPaM.php The Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) opened a new computational lab on the third floor of the Mining and Mineral Resources Building in January 2025. The Surface Processes and Modelling Laboratory (SP&M Lab) was funded by the NSF EPSCoR ‘Climate Resilience through Multidisciplinary Big Data Learning, Prediction & Building Response …

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NSF Awards KSEF $8M to Develop Kentucky Climate Data Infrastructure

Kentucky State University, Workforce Development / By

Press Release from the Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation   The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation (KSEF), an initiative of the Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation (KSTC), $8M to improve Kentucky’s ability to predict, mitigate and respond to climate-related natural disasters by establishing statewide climate data infrastructure. Through …

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UK’s Carpenter, Wang, Partner with Murray State to Install Seismological Equipment

Murray State University, Project 3 (Safeguarding Water Supply), University of Kentucky / By

CLIMBS researchers from the University of Kentucky, Seth Carpenter and Zhenming Wang, recently spent time in Western Kentucky, specifically in the Jackson Purchase region, to select appropriate instrumentation for the passive-seismic groundwater characterization project. The team evaluated candidate nodal seismometers and were assisted at the West Farm Complex by Murray State University’s Hannah Conner. UK …

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NEW MSU UNDERGRADS, HS STUDENTS

CLIMBS Project, Morehead State University, Undergrad Experience / By

Please welcome six new undergraduate and high school members of the CLIMBS team, working with Jen O’Keefe and Md Golam Kibria! These six are helping us build climate resilience! Margaret Alden (junior), Hannah Sprinkle (junior), Tori Reid (Craft Academy junior), and Avery Wasinger (Craft Academy junior) are working on building a Holocene climate change record …

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Meet Professor Brian He, CLIMBS First New Hire at the University of Louisville

CLIMBS Project, Flooding Mitigation, University of Louisville / By

As KY NSF EPSCoR’s CLIMBS project continues to build climate resiliency, it is also building research infrastructure to support CLIMBS initiatives well-beyond the five-year project. Much of that support comes in the form of new faculty hires. Ten new hires — seven at UK, two at University of Louisville, and one at Western Kentucky University …

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First Landslide Monitoring Station Installed

CLIMBS Project, Project 5 (Mitigate Landslide Impacts), University of Kentucky / By

  The first CLIMBS landslide monitoring station is officially installed at UK’s Robinson Forest (Breathitt, Knott, and Perry Counties)! These will gather hillslope data and help us observe the unique nature of Eastern Kentucky landslides, so that communities in Eastern Kentucky can better prepare and react. Congrats to Project 5 for this vital first step! This …

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EPSCoR FEC Award to Study Flooding Prevention in East KY

CLIMBS Project, Eastern Kentucky University, Education, Flooding Mitigation, Follow-On Awards, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville / By

Adapted from UK NOW Story by Tom Musgrave and Lindsay Travis The RII-FEC program (formerly known as “EPSCoR Track-2 program”) builds inter-jurisdictional collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) focus areas consistent with the current National Science Foundation Strategic Plan.  Several members of our CLIMBS Track-1 project are involved in just …

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