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BAE Donates PPE in Fight Against COVID-19 Spread
Published on Apr. 8, 2020
Six boxes of much-needed N95 masks were among the supplies donated to UK Healthcare.
UK’s James B. Beam Institute Providing Sanitizer to Health Care Workers, Manufacturing Instructions to Spirits Industry
By Aimee Nielson and Jeff Franklin
Published
on Apr. 1, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating shortages of sanitizing products in hospitals. Across the nation, spirits distillers are stepping up to help and using their products and equipment to make hand sanitizer for health care workers.
AEN-149: Heat Stress in Goats
By Joe Taraba,
Katie Jackson,
and Morgan Hayes
Published on Mar. 30, 2020
Heat stress is prevalent in most livestock species, but especially in dairy animals where large quantities of energy are necessary to sustain milk production. Both dairy goats in lactation and meat goats, which are being fed for growth, are susceptible to heat stress.
AEN-148: Considerations in Goat Barn Design
By Joe Taraba,
Katie Jackson,
and Morgan Hayes
Published on Mar. 30, 2020
Farmers who raise goats for meat or milk need guidance in the interrelated tasks of choosing a barn design and managing temperatures for their herd. Barn orientation, ventilation design, and stocking density are all important considerations which impact goats socially and physiologically, potentially impacting production.
Kentucky Climate Consortium Empowers Kentuckians to be Environmental Stewards
By Carol Lea Spence
Published
on Jan. 28, 2020
Carmen Agouridis has co-founded a new statewide consortium headquartered at UK that will promote interdisciplinary climate research and education.
Preventing Cattle Loss with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Jesse Hoagg
By Lindsey Piercy
Published
on Jan. 27, 2020
It's a staggering statistic — every year nearly 3 million cows in the U.S. die from health problems. And it's costing the cattle industry more than $1 billion.
Jian Shi Receives New NSF Grant
Published on Jan. 16, 2020
Shi and his students will visit and conduct collaborative research with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the next two years.
College of Engineering Celebrates Co-op/Intern of the Year Awards
Published on Nov. 11, 2019
The winners were nominated by their co-op supervisors. Each received high praise from their employers.
UK Researchers Studying Better Ways to Detect Worms in Apples
By Katie Pratt
Published
on Oct. 2, 2019
Faculty members Akinbode Adedeji and Kevin Donohue are developing ways to keep healthy U.S. apples in the supply chain.
