Recent Award "Snapshot"

Our faculty and staff have taken us on an amazing upward trajectory in growing as a premier, nationally recognized metropolitan research university. This includes winning extramural funding for research and scholarly activity. Below is a snapshot of some of our recent successes. In order to maintain accuracy of this data, some awards are not posted until they have been confirmed. For more detailed information on research and innovation at UofL, please visit our Metrics page.

The following is a partial list of awards for the week of Oct 7 - 20, 2024. 

Short Desc PI Name Dept Name Sponsor Title Total Funding
New Berfield,Thomas A Spd-Mechanical Engineering Univ of Kentucky Research Foundation/NASA Development of Refractory High Entropy Alloys Structures Produced via Additive Manufacturing for Extreme Temperature NASA Applications $86,197.00 
New Cardarelli,Kathryn Epidemiology & Population Hlth University of Kentucky/NIH Kentuckians Vaccinating Appalachian Communities (K-VAC) $251,132.00 
New Chen,Yanyu Spd-Mechanical Engineering Univ of Kentucky Research Foundation/NASA Multiscale Modeling of Heterogeneous Architected Materials under Impact $86,197.00 
New Kate,Kunal H Spd-Mechanical Engineering United Soybean Board/USDA Pilot scale Demonstration of Substituting Petroleum-Based Epoxy Matrix with ESO and Soy Polys,Enhanced with Soy-Based Coatings for Terrazzo and Countertops $192,308.00 
New Liu,Jin Jun A&S Chemistry Univ of Kentucky Research Foundation/NASA High-Resolution, High-Precision Laboratory Spectroscopy of Organic Astrochemical Molecules $86,197.00 
New McLeish,Alison C A&S Psychology NIH National Institutes of Health A Motivation-Based Adolescent Vaping Typology to Inform Cessation Interventions $701,569.00 
New Menze,Michael A A&S Biology Ball State University_BSU/NIH MitoNEET is a Regulator of the Cellular Thiol State in Health and Disease $209,760.00 
New Song,Zhao-Hui Pharmacology US Army Medical Rsch Acquisition Activit CBD as a New Treatment for ASD: Efficacies and Biomarkers $516,450.00 
Total $2,129,810.00 

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