WAARP is located at North Farm off Ironworks Pike, a 971-hectare agricultural research facility operated by the University of Kentucky.
The program developed thanks to a partnership between the Office of the Vice President for Research, the College of Engineering and different departments and faculty research labs.
To make a Dean’s List, a student must earn a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher and must have earned 12 credits or more in that semester, excluding credits earned in pass-fail classes.
Sean Bailey, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is principal investigator for a wind probe from the University of Kentucky.
Led by professor Alexandre Martin, the UK team comprises faculty members in mechanical engineering and materials engineering.
The NSF GRFP is the country’s oldest graduate fellowship program directly supporting graduate students since 1952.
Dr. Halcomb led the development of joint replacement implants that revolutionized the industry.
Martin has reinvigorated the William Maxwell Reed seminar series and instituted the Epitome Seminar Series to honor retiring mechanical engineering professors, among other accomplishments.
Price also received a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, which she declined in favor of the NASA doctoral fellowship.
The 150-foot-tall balloon soared to an altitude of 110,000 feet before releasing UK’s KRUPS capsule, which gathered data as it traveled back to Earth.