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Research Trifecta!

An all-star team of cancer researchers at UK has con-
ducted three landmark trials in the past 20 years, studies
that have resulted in a new “standard of care” for patients
with metastatic cancer.

Mosquito Birth Control

Entomology professor Stephen Dobson is working to
prevent human filariasis, a globally important disease
spread by mosquitos. Currently, 1.2 billion people are at
risk of contracting this potentially deadly disease.

2007 University Research Professors

Alan Daugherty: Genetically Modifying Serendipity
Daret St. Clair: A Heart for Cancer Research
Jonathan Phillips: Seeking Chaos in the Dirt
Michael Bardo: Neuromechanisms of Novelty

Fighting Back: The Marty Driesler
Cancer Project

A first—of-its-kind health-care initiative to fight deadly cancers
in Eastern Kentucky is focusing on early detection to cut
the rates of lung and esophageal cancers. It’s a UK part—
nership with regional and local physicians and hospitals
initiated by 5‘h District Congressman Hal Rogers.

Meditation increases mental performanceoSubbaswamy
returns to UK as provost-Same Fe minimum wage hike
hurt less-educated workers- UK students teach math skills
in two Kentucky counties-UK climbs in research rankings
-Periodontal disease treatment safe for expectant moms

   
 
  
   
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
  

he University of Kentucky is

taking “green energy” literally.

Well, if you get right down to it,

it’s more like green and gold and

amber and brown—plant materials,

a.k.a. “biomass,” come in an array of
colors.

UK is targeting our country’s oil
addiction by playing up Kentucky’s
agricultural strengths—the fact that
we’re the largest timber producer east
of the Mississippi, that our climate offers
a long growing season and good annual
rainfall—by turning timber waste and
crop residues into fuel.

UK researchers are creating a more stable form of
bio-oil, a replacement for the crude petroleum we use
now to make plastics and chemicals, and targeting a
new way to make ethanol with cornfield leftovers, and,
eventually. with lawn clippings and cardboard. And UK
scientists are designing new catalysts to produce pre-
mium biodiesel, packaging fine coal and sawdust to—
gether in a potent briquette, and looking for cheap ways
to capture solar energy with devices spray painted onto
rocks or tents.

By pooling the expertise of scientists in biosystems
and agricultural engineering (a joint department of the
College of Agriculture and the College of Engineering),
chemical and materials engineering, chemistry. min-
ing engineering. and the Center for Applied Energy
Research (CAER), UK is expanding the meaning of
green energy.

Biomass to bio—oil

“Biomass is just really new coal,” says Czarena Crof—
check, an assistant professor in the biosystems and
agricultural engineering department who is working
on bio-oil, biodiesel and ethanol projects. “It has the
same stuff in it as coal and petroleum. It just hasn‘t
been processed for as long.

“One of the biggest problems we have with biomass
is that it's fluffy," she laughs. “I like to call it fluffy be—
cause it’s not very dense, which makes it expensive to
transport, and it's got a lot of moisture in it."

~ by Alicia P. Gregory

    
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

(Jarena Crofcheck ilk biosxstems and agricultural en-
gineering) and Mark Cro