By Avi Judd “I need a forecast in two minutes. What do you have?” Wyatt Crutcher is used to being put on the spot by his meteorology professor, Joshua Durkee. A storm encroaches his campus’ football game. High lightning proximity, six miles from the stadium. Within moments Crutcher assesses the impending storm and relays the …
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, …
Suriano Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Award, a First at WKU Read More »
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 …
Another testament to the connective power of KY NSF EPSCoR. Read More »
“I thought that it was a long shot for me. I was super shocked and honored.” Professor Özkan Özer, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Western Kentucky University (WKU), will represent his team of mathematics scholars, WKU, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a Fulbright U.S. Research Scholar in northern France starting this fall. According to …
Özer to Represent WKU as Fulbright Scholar, Research Fueled by EPSCoR Seed Funding Read More »
Written by WKU News: Jacob Walterman, the Wolfram Ambassador and the President of SIAM Student Chapter of WKU, has presented research funded by the Kentucky NSF EPSCoR KAMPERS (National Science Foundation Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Partnership for Enhanced Robotics and Structures) project. Walterman is an undergraduate student majoring in Mathematics …
WKU student presents at world’s largest mathematics meeting Read More »
According to a 2020 report by Global Trade Magazine, Bowling Green, Kentucky was ranked number two out of twenty American cities for manufacturing. It is critical that our STEM teachers are well-prepared to educate students and encourage our youth to consider careers in STEM disciplines. The STEM Teacher Industry Partnership (STEM-TIP) was funded by the …
https://youtu.be/4ZZZzGEo8Vk “[The Robot] can look at your face, and draw your face…it can play chess with you…the main focus is on furthering development in robot-human collaborations.” From WKU Public Relations: “I’ve always been interested in electronics and technology. I think I started first working with a soldering iron when I was around nine years old. …
Ahmet Kaan Aydin, the WKU’s John D. Minton awardee of 2022, from Mathematics has successfully presented his paper co-authored with Prof. Ahmet Ozkan Ozer at the prestigious 61st IEEE Conference on Control and Decision in Cancun, Mexico, taking place from December 6-9, 2022. Ahmet’s research was fully funded by the Kentucky NSF EPSCoR KAMPERS (National …
WKU’s Ozer, Aydin, Represent EPSCoR-supported research at IEEE Conference, Mexico Read More »
From WKU News: Ahmet Kaan Aydin, an Applied Mathematics graduate student from Istanbul, Turkey, is the 2021-22 recipient of WKU’s John D. Minton Graduate Student Award. “WKU has offered me the opportunity to nurture myself in a variety of areas such as research, teaching, and social activities,” Aydin said. “I am honored to be a …
Graduate student , FULLY FUNDED BY KY NSF EPSCOR, receives Minton Award AT WKU Read More »
Earlier this April, Western Kentucky University hosted the 5th KY NSF EPSCoR nanoCollider. KY NSF EPSCoR nanoColliders allow for participants to more broadly identify opportunities to enhance existing cross-institutional collaborations or establish new connections for potential partnerships. Dr. Farhad Ashrafrzadeh, Professor and Founding Director of Center for Energy Systems, https://www.wku.edu/ces/, highlighted the research capabilities and incredible progress …
