Carmen Agouridis has co-founded a new statewide consortium headquartered at UK that will promote interdisciplinary climate research and education.
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.
Combating this economic loss starts at the producer level. Ultimately, improved observation of cows in the pasture is proven to reduce herd loss. Sounds simple enough — right? But beef cattle spend a significant amount of time outside, which makes constant monitoring problematic.
Could eyes in the sky be the answer?
Jesse Hoagg, the Donald and Gertrude Lester Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky, thinks so.
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.
The winners were nominated by their co-op supervisors. Each received high praise from their employers.
UK faculty members Carmen Agouridis and Isabel Escobar will be involved with the project.
Faculty members Akinbode Adedeji and Kevin Donohue are developing ways to keep healthy U.S. apples in the supply chain.
Nokes completed her Ph.D. at North Carolina State in 1990.
The National Science Foundation grant will allow a research team to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the event of airborne contaminant dispersion.
Agouridis is director of the Stream and Watershed Science graduate certificate and co-director of the Environmental Engineering undergraduate certificate programs.
All College of Engineering alumni, faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. Food and drinks will be served at no cost.