CAER Engaged in Two Sustainability Challenge Grants
CAER Engaged in Two Sustainability Challenge Grants Ten teams of University of Kentucky students, faculty and staff will begin work on sustainability projects next semester after being [...]
UK Research Leads to Patent Designed to Reduce Vehicle Emissions
Transportation is the world’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and automakers in the U.S. and around the world continue to meet ever increasing standards designed to reduce [...]
CAER Receives SEP Grant to Support STEM Education Program
The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) was one of nine organizations to receive U.S. Department of Energy State Energy Program (SEP) grants, Kentucky Governor Andy [...]
CAER Spin-off Becoming a Kentucky High-tech Success Story
When Cameron Lippert approached CAER colleague James Landon about taking part in one of Lexington’s business plan pitch competitions on one technology he was assigned to develop for the [...]
CAER’s Coal-to-Carbon Fiber Research Featured in Industry Today
The UK Center for Applied Energy Research’s groundbreaking coal-to-carbon fiber research was featured in a recent issue of Industry Today, a media platform that serves the world of manufacturing. [...]
UK CAER’s Jewell Talks Next-Generation Cement on WEKU’s Eastern Standard
Bob Jewell, Research Program Manager at the UK Center for Applied Energy Research, was a guest on WEKU’s Eastern Standard radio program on Thursday, April 2. Jewell and host Tom Martin talked [...]
Public-Private Partnership to Provide STEM Education through Electric Vehicles
A new, hands-on STEM education program will be racing its way into fifth-grade classrooms across Kentucky in 2020. The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER), in [...]
CAER Project Seeks to Create More Environmentally Friendly, Stronger Cement
Cement production is the world’s second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing CO2 in the built environment is one of the most challenging engineering questions of our time, and [...]
Andrea Howard Named 2019 CAER Staff Award Recipient
Andrea Howard, a staff support professional for the UK Center for Applied Energy Research’s Materials Technologies group, was named the 2019 recipient of the Marybeth McAlister Memorial [...]
New UK CAER Grant Seeks to Turn Coal into Carbon Fiber
The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER) has received a U.S. Department of Energy grant to transform coal tar pitch into high-value carbon fiber for use in [...]
