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Department of Energy funds UK research on critical materials for commercial fusion energy

By Lindsay Travis 
 

LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 4, 2025) — The University of Kentucky has been selected to lead a project with $2.3 million in funding over four years from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop next-generation materials critical to commercializing fusion power.

UK’s SkyTalk series returns with three events for spring

By Richard LeComte 

LEXINGTON, Ky, -- The University of Kentucky’s College of Arts and Sciences is presenting three SkyTalks in the upcoming weeks courtesy of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the MacAdam Student Observatory.

SkyTalks feature UK faculty members delivering a 40-minute presentation followed by a chance to visit the MacAdam observatory, depending on the weather.

Here are three upcoming events: 

How I Wrote It Series

We will be discussing Dr. Akiko Takenaka’s new book, Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Postwar Japan, forthcoming from University of Hawaii Press. Dr. Carol Mason (Otis A. Singletary Professor of the Humanities and Prof. of GWS and English) will guide our conversation. 
 
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Alumni Gallery
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