Biofuels and Environmental Catalysis

Three members of the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research’s Biofuels and Environmental Catalysis research group have been selected to participate in a University program [...]

  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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]