Q&A with Julia Parker, Graduate Research Fellow
CAER had the chance to interview Julia Parker, a graduate research fellow at CAER. Parker started her academic career at the University of Kentucky in 2014. As an undergrad, she studied [...]
Novel Funding Model Provides CAER Researchers Support to Produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Funding early-stage, proof-of-concept research is often a challenge for university researchers. Traditionally, governmental funding agencies have chosen to invest in basic science and in projects [...]
Gobble Grease Toss November 27th
Gobble Grease Toss is back! Recycle your turkey cooking grease for free on Friday, Nov. 27 at Redwood Cooperative School, 166 Crestwood Dr. The event runs from 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Cooking [...]
CAER Receives US DOE Grant to Develop Next-Generation Carbon Dioxide Capture Technology
For more than a decade, two groups at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) have focused their time and talent investigating and creating new technologies for [...]
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 [...]
$3 Million NSF Grant to Support the Next Generation of Kentucky Food, Energy and Water Systems Innovators
A multidisciplinary University of Kentucky team will provide unique graduate educational opportunities in food, energy and water systems, thanks to a new National Science Foundation (NSF) [...]
UK Researchers Use Sustainability Challenge Grant Program to Study Biomass Products
Researchers from the University of Kentucky departments of Chemistry, Food Science, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE), as well as the Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) were [...]
UK CAER, IU Bloomington Launch Sustainable Collaboration
Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Kentucky may be rivals on the hardwood but when it comes to sustainability, these two schools are clearly on the same page. A $50,000 grant [...]
UK CAER’s Biofuels Breakthrough Featured in Royal Society of Chemistry Publication
When Mark Crocker and the biofuels research team at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research began their work to convert lignin into biofuels and chemicals, some called it a [...]
UK CAER Technology Licensed by International Chemical Company
LUXFER MEL Technologies, a global producer and supplier of inorganic materials, has licensed technology from the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy (UK CAER) that shows great [...]
